The Story of the Mars Rovers
Explore NASA's Mars Rover project through captivating stories and video footage from the Jet Propulsion Lab, as shared by Charles Elachi at Serious Play 2008.
Shaking Hands with the Devil
Compelling story of UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, who negotiated with dictators to help people survive crises, exploring the moral complexities of humanitarian work.
Tales of Creativity and Play
Explore the powerful connection between creative thinking and play through engaging examples and insights from designer Tim Brown's 2008 Serious Play conference talk.
Nature vs. Humans, and What We Can Do About It
Visionary aircraft designer explores human impact on nature and proposes innovative solutions like solar planes and electric cars to restore ecological balance.
A Theory of Everything
Physicist Garrett Lisi presents a controversial 8-dimensional model of the universe, aiming to answer fundamental questions about elementary particles and forces.
How Robots Will Invade Our Lives
Explore the future of robotics and their integration into daily life, from toys to household tasks and beyond, as envisioned by roboticist Rodney Brooks.
Human Nature and the Blank Slate
Explore the controversial idea that humans are born with innate traits, challenging the concept of the "blank slate" and its implications for society and human behavior.
A Digital Library, Free to the World
Visionary archivist's ambitious project to create a comprehensive digital library, preserving books, movies, and web history for free public access.
Protecting System Integrity with Trusted Platform Module
Explore system firmware vulnerabilities and learn how Trusted Platform Module (TPM) can safeguard against persistent implants, ensuring secure access to infrastructure secrets.
Netflix - Streaming Entertainment to 200 Million Members Around the World
Explore Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its optimizations for efficient video streaming to millions of global subscribers. Learn about hardware and software innovations behind their content delivery system.
Emerging from Burnout
Exploring burnout in SRE: causes, impacts, and strategies for recovery. Learn to apply system reliability principles to personal resilience and mental health management.
Improving Usability of Differential Privacy at Scale
Explore a framework enhancing Differential Privacy usability, allowing practitioners to visualize privacy-utility trade-offs and simplify complex concepts for better implementation and understanding.
Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation Configure
Learn how to build a comprehensive privacy governance program for data collection and sharing, balancing innovation with user trust and legal compliance in decentralized workplaces.
Effectively Prefetching Remote Memory with Leap
Innovative prefetching solution for remote memory access, improving latency and performance in memory disaggregation systems through online algorithms and efficient kernel data paths.
SplinterDB - Closing the Bandwidth Gap for NVMe Key-Value Stores
Explore SplinterDB, a novel key-value store designed for NVMe SSDs, offering improved performance and reduced write amplification compared to existing solutions like RocksDB.
The 2020 Election - Remote Voting, Disinformation, and Audit
Expert panel discusses challenges and technologies for safeguarding the 2020 US election amid pandemic concerns, disinformation, and pressure for remote voting, focusing on protecting process legitimacy and integrity.
Digital Contact Tracing - Panel Discussion
Expert panel discusses security, privacy, ethical, and legal issues of digital contact tracing systems for COVID-19, sharing experiences in development and analysis of these technologies.
I'm Putting Sloths on the Map
Explore Sloth, a Go tool for simulating network failures in cloud infrastructure. Learn how it helps discover and fix issues in monitoring, graceful degradation, and usability through controlled network disruptions.
A Practical Guide to Monitoring and Alerting with Time Series at Scale
Explore time series-based alerting methods and practical examples in Prometheus to reduce alert spam and improve production hygiene for more efficient monitoring at scale.
I Can't Believe It's Not Causal! Scalable Causal Consistency with No Slowdown Cascades
Explore Occult, a scalable geo-replicated data store providing causal consistency without slowdown cascades. Learn about its design, implementation, and evaluation using PC-PSI for efficient transaction handling.
vCorfu - A Cloud-Scale Object Store on a Shared Log
Explore vCorfu, a cloud-scale object store built on a shared log, offering strong consistency, efficient transactions, and global snapshots while outperforming traditional NoSQL databases.