Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything traced the evolution of the information age and celebrated MIT's role in it. The event brought together early and recent pioneers from a variety of fields to review the role computation has played in the past and present and to explore frontiers that lie ahead.
Some selected talks are linked below. (Once on the MIT page, click on one of the speaker's name to start the video at the right time.)
Theoretical Computer Science
Speaker: Tom Leighton
Affiliation: Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Akamai Technologies, Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT
Computer Science: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Ed Lazowska
Affiliation: Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
The Story of Artificial Intelligentece
Speaker: Patrick Winston
Affiliation: Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT
Decision Making in Fluid Dynamics
Speaker: Russ Tedrake
Affiliation: X-Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
The Impact of Computation on Travel
Speaker: Jeremy Wertheimer
Affiliation: President & CEO, Co-founder, ITA Software
The Impact of Computation on Entertainment
Speaker: Tony DeRose
Affiliation: Senior Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios
A Dream of Robots
Speaker: Leslie Kaelbling
Affiliation: Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Computational Photography
Speaker: Fredo Durand
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Deciphering Lost Languages Statistically
Speaker: Regina Barzilay
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
The Rise of Mobile Data
Speaker: Samuel Madden
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Biology as Information
Speaker: Eric S. Lander
Affiliation: Professor of Biology, MIT; Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School; Founding Director, The Broad Institute of MIT
Modeling Anatomically Heterogeneous Populations
Speaker: Polina Golland
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Mobile Video that Doesn't Glitch or Stall
Speaker: Dina Katabi
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Crowd Computing and Human Computation Algorithms
Speaker: Rob Miller
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Computing for Everyone
Speaker: Nicholas Negroponte
Affiliation: Founder and Chairman, One Laptop per Child
The March of Technology
Speaker: Rodney Brooks
Affiliation: Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Heartland Robotics
The Future of Computing: From Phones to Warehouses
Speaker: John Hennessy
Affiliation: President, Stanford University
The Geometry of Origami from Science to Sculpture
Speaker: Erik Demaine
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Programmable Matter
Speaker: Daniela Rus
Affiliation: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
The Limits of Computation: Quantum Computers and Beyond
Speaker: Scott Aaronson
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
