Logical Positivism - The Vienna Circle

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年12月2日
In this BBC episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg discusses Logical Positivism, an early 20th century philosophical movement. It began in Vienna after the First World War with the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophically-trained scientists and scientifically-trained philosophers who sought to rethink philosophy in connection with the nature and foundations of knowledge. Their central thesis was verificationism, a criterion of meaning which maintained that only claims which can be verified through empirical observation can have any meaning and therefore be true or false. This was a form of empiricism, which drew inspiration from the work of David Hume and the early Wittgenstein. According to them, anything which cannot be traced back to sensory experience was without cognitive sense and so was not even false, including all religious talk about God, ethical talk about value, aesthetic talk about beauty, and metaphysical talk about the ultimate nature of reality. Logic and mathematical truths were understood by them as mere tautologies, true by definition and not the world. When the Nazis took power, the group fled to England and America where their ideas went on to have a huge impact. Melvyn is joined in this program by Barry Smith, Professor of Philosophy at the University of London; Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics; and Thomas Uebel, Professor of Philosophy at Manchester University.
A. J. Ayer's "Language, Truth and Logic": https://ia802605.us.archive.org/10/it...

Panel: Approaches to Immersive Storytelling

source: Stanford    2016年12月5日
From the October 24th mediaX Sensing and Tracking for 3D Narratives Conference, this panel consisting of Don Bland with the Brave Heart Project, Marcelo Guimarães CIO with Sábia Experience, Jesses Maula CDO at IDEAN and Sandi Winter the Director of the Wellness Living Laboratory look at how they are using immersive worlds to tell a new type of story.

Paul Krause: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past (13/01/2015)

source: Arts One Open    2015年1月13日
In this lecture, Paul Krause discusses Trouillot's view of history and how it inevitably involves silencing. He then talks about various forms of silencing, such as that which occurs in histories of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, as well as the silencing of racism in numerous modern films.
CC license for this video is CC-BY-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
More information on Arts One Open can be found on our website: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca

Paul Krause: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past (26/11/2013)

source: Arts One Open    2013年11月26日
Lecture by Paul Krause for the "Remake/Remodel" theme. For more, see http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/miche....

Jon Beasley-Murray: Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández, Selected Stories (02/05/2013)

source: Arts One Open    2013年5月2日
Roberto Arlt, "The Cooked Cat." Jorge Luis Borges, "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," "Man on Pink Corner," "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," "The Circular Ruins," "The Lottery in Babylon," "The Library of Babel," "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," "The South," "Emma Zunz," "The Other Death," "Deutsches Requiem," "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths," "The Interloper," "The Story from Rosendo Juárez," and "Guayaquil". Felisberto Hernández, "The Daisy Dolls" ("Las hortensias").
Lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the "Monster in the Mirror" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/20....
For a version of this video with slides, go to http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.c....
NB this is a watermarked version of the video that you can also find at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw__QZ....

Hits and Misses: Sports Marketing, Gender, and Society || Radcliffe Inst...

source: Harvard University    2016年11月29日
Sports permeate our society. From the inspiring to the infuriating, athletes and teams have a broad reach. This conversation of experts from business, journalism, and academia looks at the extent of such influence and illuminates the connections among sports, marketing, and gender. Speakers consider how gender affects the ways athletes are represented and how sports are promoted through data analysis, advertising campaigns, and the media.

WELCOMING REMARKS:
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

SPEAKERS:
(12:17) Jessica C. Gelman ’97, MBA ’02, chief executive officer, KAGR (Kraft Analytics Group)
(21:48) Daniel Peterson ’02, resident scholar in journalism, Lowell House, Harvard University; director of content, AdmitHub; and former editor, ESPN Boston
(37:56) Shira Springer ’97, columnist on women's sports, Boston Globe; contributor on sports and society, NPR and WBUR

MODERATOR:
(6:25) Janet Rich-Edwards ’84, SD ’95, faculty codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Panel Discussion (47:08)
Q&A (1:09:53)
This discussion was presented as part of the Harvard Alumni Association’s Women’s Weekend program.

Space-based quantum-secured communication prototype demonstration

source: Institute for Quantum Computing    2016年12月22日
In September, members of IQC's Quantum Photonics Lab traveled to Smith Falls and Ottawa to transmit a quantum key securely from a source on the ground to a receiver on an aircraft, the first of it's kind in Canada.

The Mechanical Universe (1985) by David Goodstein at Caltech

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source: caltech      2016年12月19日
“The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course.
The series was originally produced as a broadcast telecourse in 1985 by Caltech and Intelecom, Inc. with program funding from the Annenberg/CPB Project.
The online version of "The Mechanical Universe" is sponsored by the Information Science and Technology initiative at Caltech. http://ist.caltech.edu 
Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to his freshman physics class. The series contains hundreds of computer animation segments, created by Dr. James F. Blinn, as the primary tool of instruction. Dynamic location footage and historical re-creations are also used to stress the fact that science is a human endeavor.

Episode 1: Introduction This preview introduces revolutionary ideas and heroes from Copernicus to Newton, and links the physics of the heavens and the earth. 28:47
Episode 2: The Law Of Falling Bodie 28:47
Episode 3: Derivatives 28:47
Episode 4: Inertia 28:47
Episode 5: Vectors 8:19
Episode 6: Newton's Laws 28:47
Episode 7: Integration 28:47
Episode 8: The Apple And The Moon 28:47
Episode 9: Moving In Circles 28:47
Episode 10: Fundamental Forces 28:47
Episode 11: Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism 28:47
Episode 12: The Millikan Experiment 28:47
Episode 13: Conservation Of Energy 28:47
Episode 14: Potential Energy 28:47
Episode 15: Conservation Of Momentum 28:47
Episode 16: Harmonic Motion 28:47
Episode 17: Resonance 28:47
Episode 18: Waves 28:46
Episode 19: Angular Momentum 28:46
Episode 20: Torques And Gyroscopes 28:47
Episode 21: Kepler's Three Laws 28:47
Episode 22: The Kepler Problem 28:47
Episode 23: Energy And Eccentricity 28:47
Episode 24: Navigating In Space 28:46
Episode 25: From Kepler To Einstein 28:47
Episode 26: Harmony of the Spheres 28:47
Episode 27: Beyond The Mechanical Universe 28:47
Episode 28: Static Electricity 28:47
Episode 29: The Electric Field 28:47
Episode 30: Capacitance And Potential 28:47
Episode 31: Voltage, Energy And Force 28:47
Episode 32: The Electric Battery 28:46
Episode 33: Electric Circuits 28:47
Episode 34: Magnetism 28:47
Episode 35: The Magnetic Field 28:47
Episode 36: Vector Fields And Hydrodynamics 28:47
Episode 37: Electromagnetic Induction 28:47
Episode 38: Alternating Current 28:47
Episode 39: Maxwell's Equations 28:47
Episode 40: Optics 28:47
Episode 41: The Michelson morley Experiment 28:47
Episode 42: The Lorentz Transformation 28:47
Episode 43: Velocity And Time 28:47
Episode 44: Energy, Momentum And Mass 28:47
Episode 45: Temperature And The Gas Law 28:35
Episode 46: Engine Of Nature 28:47
Episode 47: Entropy 28:46
Episode 48: Low Temperatures 28:47
Episode 49: The Atom 28:47
Episode 50: Particles And Waves 28:47
Episode 51: Atoms To Quarks 28:47
Episode 52: The Quantum Mechanical Universe 28:47
Siggraph 1984 - The Mechanical Universe Demo 7:40
Siggraph 1985 - The Mechanical Universe Demo 3:55
Siggraph 1986 - The Mechanical Universe Demo 5:07
Siggraph 1987 - Mechanical Universe Demo 5:17

Perspectivism

source: Daniel Bonevac    2016年12月2日
Perspectivism, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2016

Stamps: Architecture and Design - University of Michigan Lecture Series

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source: University of Michigan    上次更新日期：2015年2月4日

Robert Mankoff - Past, Present & Future of Humor 55:25
Richard Barnes - Excavations & Iterations: The Museum Unveiled 52:54
Bernard Khoury - New Wars in Progress 59:58
Paula Scher - New York Design 45:51
Margaret Livingstone - What Art Can Tell Us About The Brain 55:19
Lucy Orta - Body Architecture 45:36
Luis Chomiak Influencing Train Design 1:07:49

Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (Spring 2014) by Brian L. Evans (U of Texas at Austin)

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source: ECE UT Austin     2014年1月14日
This playlist of videos for lectures and homework discussions in the Real-Time DSP Lab course at The University of Texas at Austin in spring 2014 by Prof. Brian L. Evans.
Lecture slides are available at http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/cou...
The Web site for the course is http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/cou...

Introduction Part 1 (Lecture 0) 50:31
Introduction Part 2 (Lecture 0) 51:00
Sinusoidal Generation Part 1 (Lecture 1) 54:44
Sinusoidal Generation Part 2 (Lecture 1) 52:41
Homework #0 (Review of Signals & Systems) 51:35
DSP Architecture Part 1 (Lecture 2) 51:02
DSP Architecture Part 2 (Lecture 2) 55:04
Signals and Systems Part 1 (Lecture 3) 49:54
Signals and Systems Part 2 (Lecture 3) 56:26
Homework #1 (Z-Transforms and Spectral Analysis) 50:31
Sampling and Aliasing Part 1 (Lecture 4) 52:19
Sampling and Aliasing Part 2 (Lecture 4) 50:35
FIR Filters Part 1 (Lecture 5) 52:02
FIR Filters Part 2 (Lecture 5) 50:57
FIR Filters Part 3 (Lecture 5) 51:03
FIR Filters Part 4 (Lecture 5) 50:22
Homework #2 (Filters) 53:36
IIR Filters Part 1 (Lecture 6) 38:37
IIR Filters Part 2 (Lecture 6) 50:52
IIR Filters Part 3 (Lecture 6) 52:04
IIR Filters Part 4 (Lecture 6) 47:40
IIR Filters Part 5 (Lecture 6) 50:55
Midterm #1 Solutions 44:06
Interpolation and Pulse Shaping Part 1 (Lecture 7) 49:22
Interpolation and Pulse Shaping Part 2 (Lecture 7) 41:26
Adding Random Variables (Appendix S) 26:04
Homework #4 (Random Signals and Correlation) 22:08
Quantization Part 1 (Lecture 8) 14:03
Quantization Part 2 (Lecture 8) 55:24
Data Conversion Part 1 (Lecture 10) 48:39
Data Conversion Part 2 (Lecture 10) 40:20
Channel Impairments (Lecture 12) 54:39
Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation Part 1 (Lecture 13) 46:08
Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation Part 2 (Lecture 13) 49:37
Matched Filtering Part 1 (Lecture 14) 52:02
Matched Filtering Part 2 (Lecture 14) 52:35
Matched Filtering Part 3 (Lecture 14) 52:22
Matched Filtering Part 4 (Lecture 14) 35:24
Homework #5 (Communication Systems) 52:20
Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Transmitter Part 1 (Lecture 15) 49:19
Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Transmitter Part 2 (Lecture 15) 53:09
Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Receiver Part 1 (Lecture 16) 50:00
Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Receiver Part 2 (Lecture 16) 50:13
Digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Receiver Part 3 (Lecture 16) 37:24
Review for Midterm #2 1:06:26

Southern California Machine Learning Symposium, May 20, 2016

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source: UCIBrenICS    2016年5月25日

Sanjoy Dasgupta (UC San Diego): Algorithms for Interactive Learning 48:09
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley): Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking, and Data Science 51:00
Tomaso Poggio (MIT): Some Theorems on Hierarchical Learning Machines 47:32
Vladimir Vapnik (Columbia University and Facebook): Intelligent Mechanisms of Learning 45:31
Anima Anandkumar (UCI): Tensor Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning 44:15
Kevin Murphy (Google): Beyond a Bag of Labels: Towards Deep Visual Scene Analysis 45:59
Fei Sha UCLA: Can Shallow Random Features be as Effective as Deep Learning Features? 44:50
Pietro Perona (Caltech): Visipedia 47:14
Pierre Baldi (UCI): Deep Learning in the Natural Sciences. 46:21
Mickey's trailer Mickey Mouse cartoon 7:47

Informatics Seminar Series 2015-16

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source: UCIBrenICS    2016年6月6日

"Assessing software quality from first principles" - Reid Holmes, University of British Columbia 1:01:35
Online Case Resolution Systems - J.J. Prescott 1:02:03
Visualizing a World in Motion: Designing for Real-Time Data - FernandaViégas and Martin Wattenberg 1:00:03
Social Media and Political Brand Building: The Case of Narendra Modi - Joyojeet Pal 1:05:35
Lies, Damned Lies and Software Analytics - Margaret-Anne Storey - ISR Distinguished Seminar 1:04:19
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations - Ben Shneiderman 1:02:01
"Enlightened Interaction" with Brenda Laurel - Informatics Trends Seminar Series 57:57
"Advancing Collective Innovation" with Steven P. Dow, UC San Diego 57:37
"Unlocking Data, Unlocking Interaction" - James Fogarty, DUB Group, University of Washington 57:31
"Socio-Technical Coordination" - James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University 1:08:02
Promoting Online Safety for Adolescents - Trends Seminar featuring Mary Beth Rosson 1:05:34
Pushing Communities: From Community Network to Innovation Infrastructure-John Carroll-Trends Seminar 1:03:05
"Computer Synthesis of Musical Creativity" David Cope, UC Santa Cruz 57:01
ISR Distinguished Speaker Series - "Millions and Billions of SLOC" - Premkumar Devanbu 59:28
The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities - Darren Gergle 57:17
Trends Series Hiroshi Ishii, MIT “TRANSFORM: Beyond Tangible Bits, Towards Radical Atoms” 47:53
"Opening the Black Box" - Dr. Rebecca Randell 1:01:44
Towards Personalized Privacy Assistants - Norman Sadeh 1:14:08
Equity by Design - Nicole Pinkard 1:03:20
Accelerating Design Theory with Large-Online Experiments - Derek Lomas 1:00:30
Games, Learning & Society: The Intellectual Life of Digital Play - Constance Steinkuelher 58:07
Transforming Public Participation in Science with Digital Games - Kurt Squire 53:32
Frontiers in Crisis Informatics - Leysia Palen 1:05:20
The Politics of Interactivity in Cold War America - Fred Turner 1:07:54
Postcolonial Technologies, Developmental Leapfrogging, Jugaad Economics - Kavita Philip 1:05:36
State of the Department - Informatics Seminar Series - Andre van der Hoek 55:21
Improving Regression Testing in Continuous Integration Development Environments - Gregg Rothermel 59:31

The Populist Challenge to Human Rights (Philip Alston)

source: London School of Economics and Political Science    2016年12月9日
Date: Thursday 1 December 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Philip Alston
Chair: Professor Chetan Bhatt
The human rights movement is reeling and the worst is yet to come. Populists have come to power in key countries promoting an agenda which is avowedly nationalistic, xenophobic and retrograde. The space for civil society has been closed down in many countries. The International Criminal Court is under concerted attack as states withdraw and ‘unsign’. Regional and UN institutions are under increasing pressure. This lecture suggests what can be done in response to this onslaught of negative developments. ‘Business as usual’ is not one of the options. Intensive self-reflection, innovative thinking and creative strategizing will be required.
This lecture marks International Human Rights day, which on the 10th December each year commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly.
Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. His teaching focuses primarily on international law, human rights law, and international criminal law. He co-chairs the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
He has previously been Professor of Law and Foundation Director of the Center for International and Public Law at the Australian National University and Professor of International Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence where he was also Head of Department and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law.

Alston was appointed in 2014 as the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He was previously UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions from 2004 to 2010 and undertook fact-finding missions to: Sri Lanka, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, Israel, Lebanon, Albania, Kenya, Brazil, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, the United States, Albania, and Ecuador. He was a member of the Group of Experts on Darfur appointed in 2007 by the UN Human Rights Council, and was special adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals. He chaired the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights for eight years until 1998, and at the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights he was elected to chair the first meeting of the Presidents and Chairs of all of the international human rights courts and committees (including the European and American Human Rights Courts and the African Commission). He was UNICEF's legal adviser throughout the period of the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and directed a major project funded by the European Commission, which resulted in the publication of a Human Rights Agenda for the European Union for the Year 2000 and a volume of essays on that theme. In 2010-11 he was a member of the Independent International Commission investigating human rights violations in Kyrgzstan.
Chetan Bhatt is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights.

2016: The Year in Review

source: The RSA     2016年12月30日
2016: The Year in Review. Conflict, refugee and migration crises, an extraordinary US election race - and result, and post-Brexit-vote tumult for the UK and the EU - 2016 has been a year of exceptional, world-changing events. Our group of expert reviewers – historian and author of The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan; academic and cultural critic Sarah Churchwell and political scientist Matthew Goodwin - reflect on what has been a turbulent year in national and international political, social and cultural events.
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2016: Review of the Year | Peter Frankopan | RSA Replay

source: The RSA 　2016年12月15日
2016 has been a year of exceptional, world-changing events. Join us as our group of expert reviewers – historian and author of The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan; academic and cultural critic Sarah Churchwell and political scientist Matthew Goodwin - reflect on what has been a turbulent year in national and international political, social and cultural events.
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Heidi Floyd: "Bad for Good: Finding Ways to Turn Adversity into Compassion

source: Talks at Google    2016年12月1日
As both a caregiver and a patient, Heidi Floyd has found a way to harness her energy into teaching others how to find their hearts. A worldwide corporate speaker, Heidi has been asked to help companies find ways to help employees diagnosed with cancer and other serious illness, donate without writing checks and being more creative with philanthropy.