Archive for May, 2008
Simple designs that could save millions of lives
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal. About Amy Smith: Mechanical engineer Amy Smith’s approach to problem-solving in developing nations is refreshingly common-sense: Invent cheap, low-tech [...]
Dangers of Blogging… for Men
Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men. About Yossi Vardi: Joseph “Yossi” Vardi has helped more than 40 startups see the light of day, among them Mirabilis (makers of ICQ) and the video companies Scopus and BrightCove. He’s a strategic advisor to Amazon and AOL, [...]
Simplicity patterns
The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics. About John Maeda: John Maeda is a programmer and an artist — and is committed to blurring the lines between the two disciplines. As a student [...]
The power to connect the world
Hector Ruiz talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD’s 50×15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50 percent of the world to the Internet by 2015. Sharing his own extraordinary life story, Ruiz makes the case that access [...]
