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Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_our_buggy_moral_code

Juan Enriquez: The life code that will reshape the future

Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics.
https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_the_life_code_that_will_reshape_the_future

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just use new tech toys but also create them.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code

José Américano N L F de Freitas: How exactly does binary code work?

Imagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town. Now imagine trying to do it using only the numbers 1 and 0. Every time you use the Internet to watch a movie, listen to music, or check directions, that's exactly what your device is doing, using the language of binary code. José Am...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jose_americano_n_l_f_de_freitas_how_exactly_does_binary_code_work

Alex Rosenthal: The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

This is episode 1 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_rosenthal_the_prison_break_think_like_a_coder_ep_1

Antonio Garcia Vicente: Porque le enseño a niños como yo a programar

A Antonio Garcia Vicente le encanta programar, escribir "code," y educar niños— y solo tiene 8 años de edad. En esta charla que inspira, Antonio comparte algunos de sus inventos y proyectos escolares y explica porque piensa que es importante que todos los niños tengan acceso para appender — y jugar — con las computadoras.
https://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_garcia_vicente_porque_le_enseno_a_ninos_como_yo_a_programar

Alex Gendler: Can you solve the pirate riddle?

It's a good day to be a pirate. Amaro and his four mateys – Bart, Charlotte, Daniel, and Eliza have struck gold – a chest with 100 coins. But now, they must divvy up the booty according to the pirate code — and pirate code is notoriously complicated. Can you help come up with the distribution that Amaro should propose to make sure he lives to te...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_gendler_can_you_solve_the_pirate_riddle

Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery

Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.
https://www.ted.com/talks/quyen_nguyen_color_coded_surgery

Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection

We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program -- two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says....
https://www.ted.com/talks/reshma_saujani_teach_girls_bravery_not_perfection

Alex Rosenthal: The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

This is episode 2 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_rosenthal_the_resistance_think_like_a_coder_ep_2

Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

Chris Domas is a cybersecurity researcher, operating on what's become a new front of war, "cyber." In this engaging talk, he shows how researchers use pattern recognition and reverse engineering (and pull a few all-nighters) to understand a chunk of binary code whose purpose and contents they don't know.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_domas_the_1s_and_0s_behind_cyber_warfare

Danielle Feinberg: The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life

Danielle Feinberg, Pixar's director of photography, creates stories with soul and wonder using math, science and code. Go behind the scenes of Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Brave, WALL-E and more, and discover how Pixar interweaves art and science to create fantastic worlds where the things you imagine can become real. This talk comes from the PBS sp...
https://www.ted.com/talks/danielle_feinberg_the_magic_ingredient_that_brings_pixar_movies_to_life

Alex Rosenthal: The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

This is episode 3 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_rosenthal_the_furnace_bots_think_like_a_coder_ep_3

Alex Rosenthal: The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

This is episode 4 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_rosenthal_the_train_heist_think_like_a_coder_ep_4

Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!

Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several convicted coders from around the world and reaches a startling conclusion.
https://www.ted.com/talks/misha_glenny_hire_the_hackers

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers

From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through com...
https://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers

Craig Costello: In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?

In this glimpse into our technological future, cryptographer Craig Costello discusses the world-altering potential of quantum computers, which could shatter the limits set by today's machines -- and give code breakers a master key to the digital world. See how Costello and his fellow cryptographers are racing to reinvent encryption and secure th...
https://www.ted.com/talks/craig_costello_in_the_war_for_information_will_quantum_computers_defeat_cryptographers

Penny Chisholm: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet

Oceanographer Penny Chisholm introduces us to an amazing little being: Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic species on the planet. A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years, Prochlorococcus wasn't discovered until the mid-1980s -- but its ancient genetic code may hold clues to how we can reduce our dependence on fossil...
https://www.ted.com/talks/penny_chisholm_the_tiny_creature_that_secretly_powers_the_planet

Tal Zaks: The disease-eradicating potential of gene editing

If our cells are the hardware and our genetic material the operating system, what if we could change a few lines of code? In this cutting-edge science talk, oncologist Dr. Tal Zaks reviews the future of personalized medicine, which may lie with gene-editing vaccines tailored to each patient's immune system, teaching it to overcome the genetic mu...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tal_zaks_rewriting_the_genetic_code_a_cancer_cure_in_the_making_dec_2017

Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code -- a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.
https://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching

Paul Rothemund: Playing with DNA that self-assembles

Paul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration of self-assembly at the smallest of scales -- with vast implications for the future of making things.
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_rothemund_playing_with_dna_that_self_assembles

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
https://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education

Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer

Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- but Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.
https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_suarez_a_12_year_old_app_developer

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how -- and makes a bold (and, it turns ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyber_weapon

James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it

How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank account? Often, it's through simple things you do each day without thinking twice. James Lyne reminds us that it's not only the NSA that's watching us, but ever-more-sophisticated cybercriminals, who exploit both weak code and trusting hu...
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_lyne_everyday_cybercrime_and_what_you_can_do_about_it

Brittany Packnett: How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others

"Confidence is the necessary spark before everything that follows," says educator and activist Brittany Packnett. In an inspiring talk, she shares three ways to crack the code of confidence -- and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious dreams into reality.
https://www.ted.com/talks/brittany_packnett_how_to_build_your_confidence_and_spark_it_in_others

Uri Hasson: This is your brain on communication

Neuroscientist Uri Hasson researches the basis of human communication, and experiments from his lab reveal that even across different languages, our brains show similar activity, or become "aligned," when we hear the same idea or story. This amazing neural mechanism allows us to transmit brain patterns, sharing memories and knowledge. "We can co...
https://www.ted.com/talks/uri_hasson_this_is_your_brain_on_communication

Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy...
https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux

Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower

Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Learn more about...
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_sleep_is_your_superpower

Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers

Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is helping to educate problem-solving kids, encouraging them to see computers not as mechanical, boring and complicated but as colorful, expressive machines meant to be tinkered with. In this t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/linda_liukas_a_delightful_way_to_teach_kids_about_computers
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