The Clues to a Great Story
Discover the secrets of compelling storytelling from Pixar filmmaker Andrew Stanton as he shares insights on crafting narratives that captivate audiences from beginning to end.
2600 Years of History in One Object
Explore 2600 years of Middle Eastern history through the Cyrus Cylinder, a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multiculturalism, in this captivating talk by Neil MacGregor.
Don't Regret Regret
Explore the power of embracing regrets in this thought-provoking talk. Discover how acknowledging past mistakes can lead to personal growth and a more fulfilling life.
A Map of the Brain
Explore how scientists map the brain's gene activity, drawing parallels to city mapping, in this visually captivating presentation on understanding neural connections and function.
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
Richard Wilkinson presents data-driven insights on the societal impacts of income inequality, exploring its effects on health, lifespan, and social values like trust in this thought-provoking TED Talk.
Learning from a Barefoot Movement
Discover how Barefoot College empowers rural communities by training illiterate individuals to become skilled professionals, fostering sustainable development and self-reliance in Indian villages.
How Algorithms Shape Our World
Explore the pervasive influence of algorithms in modern society, from espionage to stock markets, and their potential implications for our future.
The History of Our World in 18 Minutes
David Christian presents a captivating overview of the universe's history, from the Big Bang to modern times, offering a unique perspective on complexity, life, and humanity's place in the cosmic timeline.
The Genius Puppetry Behind War Horse
Explore the artistry behind War Horse's lifelike puppets. Handspring Puppet Company reveals their innovative techniques for creating believable animal movements on stage.
Using Nature's Genius in Architecture
Explore how architects can create sustainable beauty by learning from nature's radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and solar energy utilization.
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Sheryl Sandberg examines gender disparity in leadership roles and offers three powerful strategies for women aspiring to reach top positions in their professions.
Fast Application Launch on Personal Computing - Communication Devices
Innovative prefetcher Paralfetch speeds up app launches on personal devices through accurate request collection, pre-scheduling, and overlapped execution, outperforming existing prefetchers in tests.
SkillDetective - Automated Policy-Violation Detection of Voice Assistant Applications in the Wild
Automated tool for detecting policy violations in voice assistant apps, analyzing 54,055 Alexa skills and 5,583 Google actions, identifying over 6,000 violations across 52 policy requirements.
Design and Verification of the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture
Explores Realms, a new confidential computing abstraction protecting data privacy in virtual machines. Introduces novel verification techniques for secure firmware in complex, concurrent systems.
BlockFlex - Enabling Storage Harvesting with Software-Defined Flash in Modern Cloud Platforms
Explore BlockFlex, a learning-based framework for efficient storage harvesting in cloud platforms, enabling fine-grained resource utilization while ensuring performance and security isolation.
Alpa - Automating Inter- and Intra-Operator Parallelism for Distributed Deep Learning
Automating model-parallel training for large deep learning models through a hierarchical approach, unifying data, operator, and pipeline parallelism for efficient distributed execution.
BlackBox - A Container Security Monitor for Protecting Containers on Untrusted Operating Systems
Innovative container security architecture using a trusted monitor to protect data confidentiality and integrity from untrusted operating systems, with minimal performance impact.
Tiger - Disk-Adaptive Redundancy Without Placement Restrictions
Innovative storage system that tailors redundancy to disk failure rates, offering space savings and improved robustness without placement constraints. Introduces eclectic striping for efficient data management.
Microsecond-scale Preemption for Concurrent GPU-accelerated DNN Inferences
Innovative GPU scheduling system enabling microsecond-scale preemption for DNN inferences, improving real-time task latency and overall throughput in intelligent applications like autonomous driving and virtual reality.
ListDB - Union of Write-Ahead Logs and Persistent SkipLists for Incremental Checkpointing on Persistent Memory
Explore innovative techniques for optimizing key-value stores on non-volatile main memory, addressing write stalls and improving performance through novel data structures and compaction methods.
zIO - Accelerating IO-Intensive Applications with Transparent Zero-Copy IO
Explore zIO, a transparent zero-copy IO mechanism that enhances performance of IO-intensive applications by eliminating unnecessary data copies and optimizing data consistency management.