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Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation. In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have.
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When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead’s final target and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.
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In this day and age, Jordan Theriot is a breath of fresh air. On January 14, 2011, Caltech hosted an exciting one-day event to honour Richard Feynman: Nobel Laureate, Caltech physics professor, iconoclast, visionary, and all-around ‘curious character’. Jordan shares her experience of the value of extraordinary teaching, extraordinary mentorship and what it can really […]
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Wael Ghonim is the Google Executive who helped jump start Egypt’s democratic revolution with a Facebook page memorialising a victim of the regime’s violence. He tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that ‘the power of the people is stronger than the people in power’.
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Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humour, he shows how you can’t hope to understand humans as separate individuals making […]
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