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François Flückiger’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

presented by François Flückiger

CERN is a place where we try and understand where the universe comes from. And to do that we need technology. This is why we developed the Web.

Barry Leiner’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech (Posthumous)

presented by Barry Leiner

Barry had a remarkable ability to bring together diverse people, organizations, to help make decisions and the plans that became the Internet as we know it today.

Dave Farber’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

presented by Dave Farber

I guess I’m supposed to say how historic things happen, but what I’d like to do is actually paraphrase a comment that is fairly traditional in mathematics and was first taught to me by Dick Hamming, that I have done good things (I’m paraphrasing) because I’ve stood on the shoulders of great people that preceded me.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

presented by Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder

This is a very great honor and I’m proud, honored, but not so little surprised to be here. But still, even though I’m not a troublemaker, I may well not be an evangelist, but I’m a really really stubborn lady.

Who and What Will Get to Think the Future?

presented by Ed Finn, Ted Chiang

There’s already a kind of cognitive investment that we make, you know. At a certain point, you have years of your personal history living in somebody’s cloud. And that goes beyond merely being a memory bank, it’s also a cognitive bank in some way.

Richard Stallman’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

presented by Richard Stallman

So, thirty years ago if you wanted to get a new computer and use it you had to surrender your freedom by installing a user-subjugating proprietary operating system. So I decided to fix that by developing another operating system and make it free, and it’s called GNU, but most the time you’ll hear people erroneously calling it Linux.

Mapping the Intricacies of Evolving Food Systems

presented by Graham MacDonald

In many countries, the very ability to eat a food like avocado is a direct benefit of international trade. We are eating on an interconnected planet. Food trade now shapes land use worldwide and is reshaping the food supplies of many nations.

Building Resilient Cities Through Restoration of Fragmented Urban Ecosystems

presented by Andrew Gonzalez

Cities form a vast global network connected by flows of energy, food, information. This global network is the challenge of the 21^st century. How do we make more sustainable cities, with smaller ecological footprints and more equitable human wellbeing?

Forbidden Research: Messing with Nature Part I: Genetics

presented by George Church, Kevin Esvelt, Megan Palmer, Ryan Phelan

When it comes to a field as fast-moving and as high of stakes as genetic engineering, how do we proceed wisely? How do we balance our own wildness and civility as we develop increasingly powerful ways to interact with the living world?

The Conversation #42 — Gary L. Francione

presented by Aengus Anderson, Gary L Francione, Micah Saul, Neil Prendergast

The best justification we have for killing fifty-six, fifty-seven, whatever billion land animals and a trillion sea animals every year is that they taste good. And so, in a sense how is this any different from Michael Vick, who likes to sit around a pit watching dogs fight, or at least he used to?