Jean Lievens: Adriend Truille on Crowdsourcing Science (YouTube 5:21) – Humans Beat Computers and Learn Faster Than Computers

From www.youtube.com – February 10, 8:55 PM Can gaming cure disease? By creating games like EteRNA for protein folding and nano-engineering, Adrien Treuille and his colleagues are outsourcing research, each week scoring and then actually synthesizing top players’ work. By studying players’ strategies, scientists can improve their computer modeling while also creating new ways to …

Jean Lievens: Thinking Cities (YouTube 17:49)

From www.youtube.com – February 9, 4:53 PM The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ deals with one of the most dramatic societal trends happening today: urbanization. The world population is expected to soar to more than 9 billion people by 2050, with roughly 70 percent living in cities. At the same time, Information Communications Technology (ICT) is extending …

Jean Leivens: David Harvey – AT THE GATES OF A NEW WORLD – Day 1 – Part 4. – YouTube

DAVID HARVEY (born in Gillingham, Kent, England) is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS and author of numerous books, including SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY, THE LIMITS TO CAPITAL, A BRIEF HISTORY OF …