About this talk. Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the “$100 laptop.”
About Nicholas Negroponte. The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor. Now he’s the driving force behind One Laptop per child… Full bio and more links .
Google Tech Talks. August 5, 2008.
Guido D. Nez-Mujica will be presenting on Science, Innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries, specifically in Venezuela, where he is from. He decided to stay there, instead of going abroad, to do some cheap biotechnology that is useful to people, solves unmet needs and allows us to use our knowledge for more than academic purposes.
The conditions there are very different from the conditions in developed countries. In terms of politics, as well as due to logistic and legal issues, some of those differences are drawbacks, while others can be treated as advantages. He believes that open source models could thrive in underdeveloped countries such as Venezuela and create successful examples of private initiative in places where the public sector runs almost everything. The presentation is less of a detailed analysis, and more of a personal perspective and account of the experiences in his lab with a current project: A kit for Chagas disease diagnostic, plus an overview of the general situation and the opportunities it offers.
Speaker: Guido D. Núñez-Mujica
Google Tech Talks. January 25, 2007. Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences. Credits: Speaker:Ben Collins-Sussman, Speaker:Brian Fitzpatrick
Google Tech Talks. December 21, 2006.
Three talks about Joomla! and the Google Summer of Code project. Credits: Speaker:Angela Byron, Speaker:Laurens Vandeput, Speaker:Hannes Papenberg
Chris Alden, Michael Birch, Reid Hoffman and Esther Dyson at Zeitgeist ‘07
Being an entrepreneur can be challenging enough: Putting together the right combination of market opportunity, product, team, and financing is more art than science. But being an entrepreneur in the social networking space brings a completely different set of challenges. Rather than the Facebooks and Myspaces, we’ve invited entrepreneurs from lesser-known social software companies, who will talk about their strategies for enabling online community — LinkedIn from a business perspective, BeBo for consumers, and Socialtext for workgroup collaboration. Dyson, a longtime industry observer through her Release 1.0 newsletter and PC Forum conferences, as well as an active investor, will uncover the key success factors in growing a successful social networking startup.
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