Academic Talk – ICT Developments

Academic Talk is a section of the Academic Conferences International website on which we are placing a links to interesting talks and discussions. This website will contain links to both pre-recorded talks and discussions on such platforms as TED and Youtube etc and also material which we will create for the use of members of the academic community. All academics are welcome to use this facility including teachers, researchers, and students.

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This page contains a list of links to presentations that we have categorised as ICT Developments. We trust that this website will be useful to all those involved in teaching and in research as well as the community of students. There is no cost associated with using this website.

	Subject	Description	Time Required	Speaker	Affiliation	Source
1	Google’s Economic Impact	A look at North Carolina and Google	34mins	Penry Price	Google	You Tube
2	How social media can make history	Helps define the Many to Many pattern	16mins	Clay Shirky	New York University, USA	TED
3	The Computer and the Campus	An interview with John Kemeny	34mins	John Kemeny	Dartmouth College	You Tube
4	The Web 2.0 Job Search	Best fit Forward –Your career in context	31mins	Chandlee Bryan	Dartmouth College	You Tube
5	The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology	New ITC developments referred to as SixthSense	13mins	Pranav Mistry	Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	TED
6	How technology evolves	asks “What does technology want”	19mins	Kevin Kelly	Long Now Foundation	TED
7	The next 5000 days	Looking forward at the world wide web	19mins	Kevin Kelly	Long Now Foundation	TED
8	Tech’s Long Tail	Petite unified theory of predicting the future	14mins	Chris Anderson	WIRED magazine	TED
9	Reverse engineering the nervous system	Computers that work like the brain	16mins	Kwabena Boahen	Stanford University	TED
10	Brain-Computer interfaces	Interpreting neural signals to drive prostheses	14mins	Krishna Shenoy	Stanford University	Academic Earth
11	Blindness and the Brain	The promise of Recovered sight?	11mins	Brian Wandell	Stanford University	Academic Earth
12	Successful business models in Information Technology	A series of 22 snippets of various different durations		Judy Estrin	Stanford University	Academic Earth
13	Researching Real Life: reflections on 30 years of Action Research	Soft System Methodology	1h42mins	Peter Checkland	Lancaster University	LSE
14	The Trouble with Information Systems	Widening the scope of IS research	41mins	Matthew Jones	University of Cambridge	LSE
15	Digital Nation	A close up look at the wired world we are living in.	1h26mins	Frontline	Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS)	PBS