Recordings of live events for Tribest 2023 Most Texas Tribune Festival panel events are recorded but only a few are posted on YouTube. Here’s a handy collection from the Tribune’s channel.
Dozens of panels presented what was cutting edge in 2016. Companies including 6SensorLab, Admetsys, and Noninvasix. 6SensorLab described a device in development that could detect and report on the chemical composition of a sample of food called NIMA. Iskander Smit explained the research about the use of haptics placed on the human wrist. Body data… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology
Smart Cities Challenge Panel at SxSWi 2016 Seven Mayors and the U.S. DOT Secretary Fox #SXSW2016 #SXSWi2016 Austin chosen for the Smart City Challenge. The US DOT has chosen Austin for some transportation connection upgrades. At the Expo: DOT Connected Vehicles demo at SxSW Expo
Encryption Wars “We live in the Great Surveillance Society” – Amit Yoran. “Developers must take into account misuses of their technology” – Stewart Baker. “Britain: more cameras per capita, turning in computer mikes give grim meaning to Open Society.” – Amit Yoran. “Apple will ensure Iphone unhackable. In tech do we trust? Or are they… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology, Law, and Ethics
Playing with your own big data: Ed Hunsinger at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. Ed Hunsinger: part man, part machine; does this equal…cyborg? Not quite. It’s all perfectly normal and you will see more and more 2000 Men and Women soon, tracking their bodies’ performances with data selfies, using such devices at FitBit,( http://www.fitbit.com/ ),… Read More Personal tracking with Ed Hunsinger: part big data, all man
Katie Covington presented on “For the Makers) at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas DIY API open-source For Makers. #futureDIY Katie Covington quit her job and started Open Source For The Makers (http://www.opensourcemakerlabs.com/ ) where makers gave designs away for free. She explained how those interested in developing the project figured… Read More Katie Covington: Making fun with Open Source for Makers
What John Biehler said when he saw Pre Pettis and MakerBot on The Daily Show How 3D Printing Changed John Biegher’s Life John Biehler bought a 3D printer as soon as he saw one demonstrated on The Daily Show. He’s been experimenting with it and extending what can be done with it ever since. Biehler… Read More Shut up and take my money: John Biehler and 3D printing
College dropout whiz kid Connor Zwick. Hardware is the new software. Presenter at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013 Conner Zwick has one word for you and the word is not plastic..it’s hardware. He dropped out of college, armed with the basic skills of… Read More Conner Zwick: sweating the small details for hardware innovations. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013
Images from last year’s Center for Transportation Research Center’s Annual Symposium.
“Craigslist” Craig Newmark, Poynter Kelly McBride on responsible journalism, at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh – or they may kill you – Oscar Wilde. (Quoted by Craig Newmark at SxSW interactive 2013) New standards of journalism in a new… Read More It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.
Jody Culkin, an artist who uses a variety of media, speaking at South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas. Lasersaurs, science geek comics, comic book how-to’s on lasers, creative uses of iPhone cameras, hacking, soldering, coloring books on electronics, rapid development of instructional manuals using photo-comics—Jody Culkin brought many graphic examples (pardon the art… Read More DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World
UT Physics professor Dr. Steven Weinberg at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference “We need to fund supercolliders – and that is why I am here (at SXSWi),” said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Steven Weinberg. And the South by Southwest Interactive audience applauded with enthusiasm. As much as SxSWi participants love the pursuit of space… Read More How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes
Dr. Kevin Nowka at the AT&T Center at the Austin Forum. Dr. Kevin Nowka is cute. He’s a little nervous to leave his laptop in the AT&T conference room just to go out for a photo shoot. But when he stands in front of those pretty red flowers and start smiling into the sun for… Read More IBM researcher Kevin Nowka talks about the big, big data
whurley (William Hurley), co-founder, Chaotic Moon; Kevin Leahy, founder, Knowledge Advocate, LLC; and Russell Poldrack, PhD, director of the Imaging Research Center, UT Austin, discuss brain-altering software and human evolution at the Austin Forum in the fall of 2013. “Our brains: the organ pipes of the infinite” — William James, “The Knowing of Things Together” Three concepts; past.… Read More Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room
Chicxulub rocked the world Austin Forum hosted Dr. Sean Gulick who has been studying the region of the Chicxulub crater, which was created when a gigantic meteor rocketed down from the sky and plummeted into the ocean near the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico 65.5 million years ago. After contemplating the damage done by this massive space rock, you don’t… Read More Rock star: Chicxulub, the 65 million year old crater that rocked the world
South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) 2013, a five-day free flight of imagination and creativity, just ended in downtown Austin, Texas. Each year, creative minds gather to share dreams and nightmares about technological changes, inventions, and twists in the road that takes the rest of us to the future. Who was the most interesting wise guy… Read More Change is as good as a holiday
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