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WeΓÇÖve been conditioned to believe that true genius is a rarity ie. Einstein or Mozart.

The worldΓÇÖs appetite for energy is growing. Today, oil use in the developed world averages 14 barrels per person per year. In the developing world, it is only 3 barrels per person.

In The Lean Startup, Ries offers a clear vision on how to create institutions with sustainable value and change the world for the better.

40 years ago, a group of scientists made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider.

Today it seems hard to believe that Google got its start barely a dozen years ago in a rented house in Silicon Valley.

If you thought your privacy was only threatened on the Web, think again. In an age where personal technology devices reign supreme.

In Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young, and Maxime BiletΓÇöscientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own rightΓÇöhave created a six-volume

The world is changing at an astonishing pace yet few of us take the time to imagine the transformations that lie ahead or the impact they will have on society or day-to-day life.

Intuition suggests that easier access to information and communication tools will help people undermine authoritarian regimes. Though so far, no dictators have been toppled by emerging technology.

Polyakov first understood in 1981 that the summation over random Riemannian metrics involved in transition amplitudes in gauge theory or string theory could be represented mathematically by the now

Class polynomials play a key role in the CM-method for constructing elliptic curves with known order.

I will describe two areas in computer security that demonstrate the wide range of techniques, from both theory and practice, we need to make impact.

The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years.

In modern microprocessors and systems-on-a-chip, the embedded memory system plays a key role in determining the designΓÇÖs overall performance, power, area, reliability, and yield.

We describe different strategies a central authority, the boss, can use to distribute computation to untrusted contractors.

See math.ubc.ca/~holroyd/sort for pictures. Joint work with Omer Angel, Dan Romik and Balint Virag.

Solar energy will be the cheapest source of energy in nearly all markets and locations because PV (photovoltaic) cells can bypass the aging and fragile electricity grid and deliver its power to the

Do you come passionately alive at work and relish the role that work plays in your life? If not, Dr. Srikumar Rao has an invitation for you.

We present a novel tree representation for the hard-core lattice gas model (weighted independent sets) on a general graph.

We study Markov chains for randomly sampling k-colorings of a graph with maximum degree D.

Having achieved enlightenment in the critically acclaimed The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, bestselling author A.J.

We consider a dependent bond percolation model on Z^2, introduced by Balint Toth, in which every edge is present with probability 1/2, and each vertex has exactly two incident edges, perpendicular

Over the past ten years, the Internet and the WWW have expanded our access to an incredible amount of information.

A longstanding open problem in computational learning theory is that of learning halfspaces in the agnostic model of Kearns, Schapire and Sellie (which model can also be viewed as learning with

In this talk, we consider a natural maximization version of the well-known set cover problem, called unique coverage: given a collection of sets, find a sub-collection that maximizes the number of

Systems-level neuroscience lacks a formal theoretical structure, relying on argumentation based on experimental findings expressed in the primary literature.

Learn how to use the Microsoft Translator extension for the Microsoft Edge web browser to instantly translate web pages from any of the supported languages.

The Jeopardy-playing computer, Watson prompts questions about the future of knowledge. What can we teach machines? What will Watson's heirs be capable of in ten or twenty years?

Leading social psychologist and scientist Roy F. BaumeisterΓÇÖs latest research reveals that the average person spends four hours of their day battling temptation.

In August, 2008 Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user; eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. The phenomenal growth rate is unprecedented and not just in the US but around the world.