So when our ancient ancestors would look up at the sky at night, they wouldn't just see stars. They'd see a bear. They'd see a a warrior.They'd say, "Look, you can see his belt." They'd see a ice cream scoop or what we call the Big Dipper. And that is visual storytelling. It's very much close to the core of what we do as humans.And that's what filmmakers do is telling a story in pictures. That's what I do. I'm a filmmaker.So when the Lumier brothers around the beginning of the 20th century figured out that ...

When we were younger, we used to think the air was clean if it looked clean, if the sky was blue, if we couldn't see smoke, if we could breathe without coughing. We assumed everything was fine. But for me, that illusion shattered the day I read that over 90% of the world's population breathes polluted air.And this pollution doesn't just stay in your lungs. It seeps into your brain. In fact, a rising climate temperature has been shown to worsen conditions like epilepsy, dementia, and stroke, and even increas ...

When everything in your life changes all at once, your natural instinct is to resist and to try to push everything back into its place. But change is unavoidable. And over time, I've learned something that helps me to not only face those changes, but to embrace them as well.And that thing is curiosity. A couple of years ago, I found myself in an unexpected job. Overnight, everything that I had assumed was stable and predictable suddenly wasn't.And oh yeah, I resisted. But very quickly that resistance change ...

So once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a community that lived in a large glass dome. For generations, families were born, lived, and died in that dome. The message handed down was clear.If you left the dome, you would surely die. So, no one left the dome. They even tied it to the ultimate punishment.If someone committed a serious crime, they would get banished from the dorm and death was certain. No one committed any serious crime until one day one man did. The community escorted him to the e ...

What is your philosophy of technology. It's a big question. Big questions are often best approached through a series of smaller questions.In this case, smaller questions like what can technology do for you and what can't it do. What is your optimum relationship with technology. How could technology amplify or improve your happiness, your well-being, and the well-being of others you care about.Answering questions like these will help you arrive at your philosophy of technology. A philosophy that will align w ...

June 1st, 2024. Close your eyes and imagine this. The final whistle blows and for the first time in nine years, it hits you that you have to say goodbye to your team. You have to say goodbye to the team that's felt like your home for so long.You stand there as the field slowly emptying around you. And then you're surrounded by your teammates. Your coach is laughing. Your best friend is crying.And then you're suddenly pulled into a hug. Your mind races back to the nine years that you've spent watching these ...

Hi everyone, my name is Jushelle, Professor George Mason running the robotics lab. Today it's my pleasure to talk to you about our journey on enabling robots to learn on the job. In September 2014, 11 years ago, I attend the very first robotics conference in my career, IROS 2014 in Chicago.A professor named Robbie Murphy delivered a keynote speech on lessons learned from inferior robotics from disasters. So playing a video feed from a onboard camera of a robot deployed underneath the rubos after 911, Dr. . ...

[Music] In the profession of words that I am in, one might not believe that I started my literary efforts in terms of books from a very insignificant chlick by Rainder Singh which said that I too had a love story. Now why this is important is that I started off that book during one of my train journeys because I had a particular health issue. I could not enjoy the journey and that book turned out to be my only companion.Today we are here to talk about insights to impact. I would like to talk about the ta th ...

[Music] Good afternoon everyone. I'm deeply honored to be here not because only for this limelight but because I believe that every story needs to be shared especially those stories which are formed in the classroom in between the chalks dusters in between the conversations and between the computer classes. I have been a computer teacher for the last 10 years. For the last 10 years, I have guided my students through arrays, loops, database, iterations and sometimes existential crisis.In this 10 years, I hav ...

[संगीत] [प्रशंसा] [संगीत] मेरा नाम रूपा है और बेसिकली मैं यूपी से बिलोंग करती हूं। हेलो गाइस, मेरा नाम रूपा है और बेसिकली मैं यूपी से बिलोंग करती हूं मुजफ्फरनगर से और वहीं से ही मेरी कहानी स्टार्ट हुई और मैं पलीड़ी हरियाणा में हूं फरीदाबाद में। तो मेरे ऊपर अटैक 208 में हुआ था और अटैक मेरी स्टेप मदर ने किया था। अ ये कहानी बहुत छोटे से स्टार्ट हुई थी। जब मैं ढाई साल की थी। तो मेरे पापा ने दूसरी शादी कर ली थी। जो मेरी रियल मम्मी थी वो कुछ ही समय के बाद एक्सपायर हो गई थी। फिर उसके बाद पापा ने शादी कर ली। तो जो ...