Professor Gil Weinberg | Robotic Musicianship at Georgia Tech
The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech aims to facilitate meaningful musical interactions between humans and machines, leading to novel musical experiences and outcomes. In our research we combine computational modeling approaches for music perception, interaction, and improvisation, with novel approaches for generating acoustic responses in physical and visual manners. The motivation for this work is based on the hypothesis that real-time collaboration between human and robotic players
Mikaila Ulmer, 10-year old Founder of Bee Sweet Lemonade | Talks at Google
10-year old social entrepreneur and founder of Bee Sweet Lemonade visited the Google Austin office to talk about how she came up with the idea for her company (it involves bee stings and grandmothers!) and her thoughts on how you can be profitable and be sweet. #dontbeevil
Why Geeks Are a New Talent Opportunity
As business becomes increasingly technological, the proportion of ‘geeks’ in the ranks is rising. Some say they’re annoying and others that they just don’t fit in, but it’s essential for managers to integrate these knowledgeable individuals, no matter how awkward they are.
Protect Rogue Thinkers
The experience of an undercover cop teaches us that we should protect and support those willing to take risks, not leave them out in the cold when it goes wrong.
War Memorials in Suffolk
From the Memorials on the village green to the simplest plaque beneath a tree. Lest we forget.
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)
By: nsf Why do we gesture? What role do simple hand movements play in some of the most fundamental aspects of language? Susan Goldin-Meadow has dedicated her career to asking, and answering, those big questions. Her eponymous lab at the University of Chicago studies gesture’s role in cognition, development and the acquisition of verbal language. Goldin-Meadow visited the National Science Foundation to discuss some of her most exciting work – examining how gesture can change the way we think.
Modeling with Linear Functions
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Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News?
A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia
Form Follows Media - Experiences of Bialystok School of Architectural Composition
This paper considers transition from physical modelling to digital methods of the creation of architectural forms. Every type of creation has constructed the proper means of expression and its own methodology. The main thesis of this paper is that a specific character of the composition activity of an architect is determined by the modelling methods. As the research on architectural modelling, the two methods of creating spatial architectural forms (cardboard model and computer model) have been
Vermenigvuldigen en delen met kommagetallen : Bingo Bingospel waarbij leerlingen handig moeten vermenigvuldigen en delen met kommagetallen door het getal eerst om te zetten naar tienden.
Photographs as Propaganda
"This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/VideoToolbox
In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs", ISHS staff member Franziska Reiniger discusses how you can explore Holocaust photography with your students. Introducing some general points to keep in mind when teaching using any photograph from the Holocaust, Ms. Reiniger then proceeds with two examples, demonstrating the remarkable differences
Teaching about Nazi Perpetrators
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In the video, "Teaching about Nazi Perpetrators" ISHS staff member Dr. Noa Mkayton broaches the difficult subject of the perpetrators in the Holocaust. Ms. Mkayton stresses the dangers in seeing perpetrators purely as other-worldy "monsters". Taking the case study of Paul Salitter, a German Police officer tasked with escorting a transport of some 1,000 Je
The Development of the "Final Solution"
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In the video, "The Development of the 'Final Solution'", Dr. David Silberklang provides an overview of what came to be known as the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question", which ended in the murder of some six million Jews. Dr. Silberklang identifies several major steps, sometimes occuring concurrently, including the prewar separation and escalating anti
Holocaust Survivors - Liberated but Not Free
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In the video, "Holocaust Survivors - Liberated but Not Free", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon presents the story of the survivors, from the moment of liberation to their experiences searching for family members and loved ones. Ms. Ochayon discusses the magnitude and complexity of liberation as a bittersweet moment for most survivors, their attempts ret
Childhood During the Holocaust
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In the video, "Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon discusses how we recommend choosing and using Holocaust testimony with your students. First discussing the features living survivors brought in their testimony and the unique aspects we lose in a world without survivors, Ms. Ochayon proceeds to contrast and then
Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom
"This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/VideoToolbox.
In the video, "Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon discusses how we recommend choosing and using Holocaust testimony with your students. First discussing the features living survivors brought in their testimony and the unique aspects we lose in a world without survivors, Ms. Ochayon proceeds to contrast and then
Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross
"This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/VideoToolbox
In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs", ISHS staff member Franziska Reiniger discusses how you can explore Holocaust photography with your students. Introducing some general points to keep in mind when teaching using any photograph from the Holocaust, Ms. Reiniger then proceeds with two examples, demonstrating the remarkable differences
Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs
This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/VideoToolbox
In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs", ISHS staff member Franziska Reiniger discusses how you can explore Holocaust photography with your students. Introducing some general points to keep in mind when teaching using any photograph from the Holocaust, Ms. Reiniger then proceeds with two examples, demonstrating the remarkable differences
The Auschwitz Album-Guidelines for Educators
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In this video, “The Auschwitz Album - Guidelines for Educators”, Dr. Na’ama Shik presents a rare, important piece of visual documentation of the workings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp - known as the “Auschwitz Album”. Depicting the arrival and selection of a transport of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia in 1
Teaching the Holocaust Using Art
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In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust using Art", ISHS staff member Liz Elsby discusses various approaches to utilizing Holocaust art in teaching the Holocaust with your students. As she stresses, a teacher does not have to be an expert in the field to broach this topic. Through three case studies, Elsby demonstrates how exploring the artistic aspects of