TED Talks
TED: A 30-year history of the future | Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are...
World Science Festival
Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future
The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness,...
One Minute History
Elon Musk - One Minute History
Born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Musk becomes an entrepreneur at twelve years old after selling the code for a video game he created called Blastar. Bullied as a child, Musk escapes into the world of computers and...
One Minute History
102 Elon Musk -One Minute History
Born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Musk becomes an entrepreneur at twelve years old after selling the code for a video game he created called Blastar. Bullied as a child, Musk escapes into the world of computers and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How one woman put man on the moon - Matt Porter and Margaret Hamilton
The Apollo 11 moon landing was about the astronauts, mission control, software and hardware all working together as a seamless integrated system. None of which would have been possible without the contributions of one engineer: Margaret...
Code.org
How Computers Work: What Makes a Computer, a Computer?
Computers are all around us, but what really makes a computer, a computer? Explore the history of computers and the features they all share. Start learning at http://code.org/ Stay in touch with us! • on Twitter...
PBS
Why Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated by men, but the women have a long and important history in the field. In fact women were many of the very first computer programmers, played a hugely important part in the...
Curated Video
High Performance Scientific Computing with C 1.2: Introduction – Why Use Computers for Math?
Why is the history of computation so tied with mathematics? How are computers used today to solve mathematical problems? • Understand the need for computers to solve mathematical problems • Understand the problems for which computers are...
IT'S HISTORY
Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet I THE COLD WAR
It’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many ways. Based on a project of internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the roots of our...
One Minute History
175 - The History of AI - One Minute History
In a world driven by innovation, a silent revolution is underway—the birth of Artificial Intelligence. Beginning in the 1950s, visionaries like Alan Turing dared to dream of creating machines that could think like humans. John McCarthy...
SciShow
Even Locusts Hate Plagues of Locusts
Plagues of locusts have been documented since ancient times, and they affect the food supply of one in ten people today. How can we stop them? Well, computer models of locusts swarms tell us every locust is scared to death of its neighbors.
One Minute History
023 Street Fighter - One Minute History
August 30, 1987 - Street Fighter hits the arcade, where players battle computer opponents as Ryu or Ken. Street Fighter 2 introduces player vs. player, and adds six new playable characters creating an entirely new genre. ‘M. Bison’ is...
Curated Video
History of opioid use in America
From our free online course, “The Opioid Crisis in America”: https://www.edx.org/course/opioid-crisis-america-harvardx-hhp100-0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=partner-marketing&utm_content=youtube-harvardx&utm_campaign=harvardx Dr. Andrew...
Curated Video
Laura Kiesel describes her family history of addiction
From our free online course, “The Opioid Crisis in America”: https://www.edx.org/course/opioid-crisis-america-harvardx-hhp100-0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=partner-marketing&utm_content=youtube-harvardx&utm_campaign=harvardx Laura...
Curated Video
History of Central Park
Learn about the architectural and political history of Central Park. From our free online course, “CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life”:...
SciShow
How the Internet Was Invented | The History of the Internet, Part 1
The Internet is older than you might think!
SciShow
How the Internet Was Invented | The History of the Internet, Part 1
The Internet is older than you might think!
Crash Course
The Cold War and Consumerism: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to step back from hardware and software, and take a closer look at how the backdrop of the cold war and space race and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought us from huge, expensive codebreaking machines in...
Curated Video
The Timeline: Computer Chess | SciTech Now
A brief history of computer chess Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed! http://bit.ly/1G7yMhG **More info & videos below** For full episodes, check out http://www.scitechnow.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scitechnow/ Twitter:...
SciShow
Henrietta Leavitt & the Human Computers: Great Minds
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of a number of volunteer women astronomers who were allowed to serve as "computers" at Harvard College Observatory, doing tedious work male scientists wouldn't do, and ultimately making a discovery now...
TED Talks
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on
Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this...
One Minute History
Bitcoin - One Minute History
August 18, 2008, the domain BItcoin.org was registered, followed by a link to a paper titled, Bitcoin. It was authored under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, who’s identity has yet to be revealed, The idea, a secure, open source, peer to...
One Minute History
120 Bitcoin - One Minute History
August 18, 2008, the domain BItcoin.org was registered, followed by a link to a paper titled, Bitcoin. It was authored under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity has yet to be revealed. The idea, a secure, open source, peer to...
Curated Video
Ada Lovelace for Kids | Bedtime History
Learn about Ada Lovelace, one of the first women associated with the philosophy of computer science.