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Everybody Knows When You’re Talking To Your Mother

presented by Chris Clark

You have to think with your users, with your customers, what is your actual relationship? Are they your gods? Are they your guests? Are they a nuisance to you? Because you know where the power is.

The Computer as Extended Phenotype

presented by Steven Pemberton

The computer is being used for so many things that I claim that we have to consider the computer as part of our extended phenotype. It’s just a part of a thing that has evolved with us using memes.

When Algorithms Fail in Our Personal Lives

presented by Caroline Sinders

I wonder with all these varying levels of needs that we have as users, and as we live more and more of our lives digitally and on social media, what would it look like to design a semi-private space in a public network?

Fran Allen Keynote, Grace Hopper Celebration 2008

presented by Fran Allen

What I believe is that computer science emerged as a science, as a profession, with all the requirements on what professional standards and requirements of what one needed to know to get a job in the field. […] In that period, then, credentials were established, and by the early 70s things had really changed for women, at least in my environment, and most other groups that I’ve talked to about this theory absolutely agree that that was where there was a significant shift.

What’s The Most Good You Can Do?

presented by Peter Singer

Unfortunately at the moment I think typically philanthropy is not being used very effectively, and that’s partly because of the kind of non-judgmental attitude that philanthropy advisors and people generally have about philanthropy.

Star Simpson at the Freedom to Innovate Summit

presented by Star Simpson

One of the most surprising outcomes since then is to find just how many people I know who are engineers [have] had some experience with the law. It’s unbelievable the number of people who’ve come to me and said, “Look, the same thing happened to me when I was a teenager, when I was in college, a little after.”

Hal Abelson’s Remarks at the Freedom to Innovate Summit

presented by Hal Abelson

Maybe what we ought to do is start advocating that hacking is a religion. We can expand, right? We can carry around our little circuit boards with lights and maybe extend to e‑meters or something.

Mindful Cyborgs #69 — Materials Science & Plastic-making Bees with Deb Chachra

presented by Deb Chachra, Klint Finley, Sara M. Watson

Designers do spend a fair bit of time thinking about what materials to use, but they don’t necessarily think about why those materials have the properties that they have.

Interview with Filip Leu, Tattoo Artist

presented by Filip Leu

The main drive we all have is the desire to be tattooed. Design comes in secondary, absolutely, because there are multiple choices at every turn that would suit just fine.

Interview with Lal Hardy, Tattoo Artist

presented by Lal Hardy

The reality TV shows have been a blessing and a hindrance, I think, to a lot of tattoo artists. The reality is, reality shows aren’t real. But they do make people aware of tattooing.