World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass currently serves as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Bahariya Oasis. Dr. Hawass is responsible for many exciting recent discoveries, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya. He supervised […]
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Berkeley Breathed
December 13, 2008 – 5:37 pm
Famed Cartoonist of Opus. I just quit my cartooning career after 30 years. In the EG spirit of open intimacy I’m going to review how I got to this place of shame. It was 1973, senior assignment. The only art class I mostly stayed awake in. [image] Worthless in many artistic regards. I have no […]
Todd Rundgren
December 13, 2008 – 4:25 pm
My latest CD is Areana, if you like raging guitars and a guy screaming like he has his nuts caught in a belgian waffle maker you may like it. What is your most memorable moment? What are you most proud of? That just tells you they never listened to the CD. You predicted everything that […]
Ralph Osterhout: Inventor
December 13, 2008 – 1:28 pm
Known as a serial productizer of technology, Ralph Osterhout regularly ricochets between Advanced military Systems, High-tech Toys, Electronic Intelligence and Consumer Products. his major customers: Department of Defense, major Toy Companies and perfromance-oriented product companies, worldwide. The common thread: high performance, low cost and meaningful innovation. ~ ~ ~ I used to be a defense […]
David Pogue
December 13, 2008 – 12:39 pm
We’ve got the video now! Here’s our original post: I’ve been reading his work for years so I’m thrilled to be listening to David Pogue, technology columnist and blogger for the New York Times. Tagged in the Gizmos & Gadgets session I wonder what he’s going to focus his presentation on. Well, we all get […]
Bruce Shapiro
December 13, 2008 – 11:56 am
Not a very sexy term. It’s the term industry uses “motion control” to describe what we often call robotics. I was a med student the topic was chaos theory and smooth tissue in the male urethra. I learned about the idea of algorithmic art. Started computing my own Mandelbrot sets. Then and even today I […]
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child
December 13, 2008 – 10:37 am
I presented last year at EG. So this is an update: What’s happened, where has it gone? What are the kids learning and what are the teachers telling us from around the world? Netbooks, a new layer of affordable laptops in the $350 price point, by sometime in the next year will represent 50% of […]
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
December 13, 2008 – 10:36 am
Dan Ariely is a Professor of Behaviorial Economics at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational. Good morning. I’ll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior – not yours, other peoples’. Writing academic papers are not that exciting. Often not fun to read, and often worse to write. So I tried to write a […]
Peter Hirshberg and Tim Kring
December 13, 2008 – 9:54 am
Kring: I’ve been involved with TV for 20 years now, and I’ve told stories in a very linear and flat way. TV has had trouble holding its audience, so the networks are interested in tying online and offline. Hirshberg: With Crossing Georgia you tried to do new media? Kring: It jsut didn’t feel like it […]
The Entertainment Gathering 