Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Craving Attention
/Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s TED Talk on social media and the attention market that has emerged from it, and how that can effect creativity.
Alan Kay
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Photo: Marcin Wichary, San Francisco, U.S.A., cc-by-2.0
I’ve been getting into learning more about computer pioneer Alan Kay. Kay conceived and advocated the conceptual Dynabook that influenced the design of what would years later become laptop and tablet computers. He was also an architect of Object-Oriented Programming and championed the windows-style graphical user interface before Apple and Microsoft put it on everyone's screens.
I’m disappointed that I haven't been able to find a biography devoted to Kay available on the Amazon Kindle Store. His contribution to the world should not be so obscure. Maybe one day Walter Isaacson will expand on the text he wrote about Kay in The Innovators. Until then, here's an interesting TED Talk:
Invisible Motion
/Michael Rubinstein gives an interesting TED Talk on new video-processing techniques used to explore the information captured in microscopic motion.
From TED.com
For more informaiton, check out the MIT Video Magnification page at:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
You can even grab the source code and binaries at:
