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January 13, 2013 / Featured, Presenters, Videos / by jboxenbaum

Dave Gallo – Explores the Oceans’ Mysteries & Reveals Newest Footage of The Titanic Wreck

David Gallo was one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of submarines and robots to map the undersea world. The Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he has taken part in an exploration of RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck using the Russian MIR submarines, as well as a recent expedition to find the lost WWII submarine USS Grunion. Dr. Gallo is currently interested in understanding the relationship between humanity and the sea. [...]

January 13, 2013 / Featured, Presenters, Videos / by jboxenbaum

Ayah Bdeir – Founder of littlebits, modular electronics

Ayah Bdeir is an interactive artist and engineer and the founder of littlebits http://littlebits.cc/about , an open source kit of pre-assembled modular circuits that fasten together with tiny magnets.

January 11, 2013 / Featured, Presenters, Videos / by jboxenbaum

Ken Kamler, “How Do You Fix A Broken Astronaut”

Kenneth Kamler, M.D., is an orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center who practices surgery of the hand in New York, but practices extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth. He has treated bear bite in the Arctic and frostbite in the Antarctic. He has set fractures in the Andes and cared for out-of-breath scuba divers in the Galapagos. He has performed surgery in the mud of the Amazon rainforest and in a NASA undersea analogue space capsule. He has flown in zero-gravity aboard NASA’s C-9 “Vomit Comet”, testing robots for eventual use in emergency surgery on the International Space Station or on Mars.

April 27, 2012 / Featured, Presenters, Videos / by Peter

Dave Arnold: Molecular Gastronomy & The Perfect Gin & Tonic

Dave Arnold, the Intentional Culinary institute’s chief mad scientist in residence talks food, technology & the molecular cuisine while explaining how to mix the best gin tonic ever.

April 27, 2012 / Featured, Music, Videos / by Peter

Jonathan Batiste: New Orleans Jazz in NYC

Jonathan Batiste is an iconic artist, unique in this generation. With his voice on piano and dapper sense of style, he has ignited the NYC music scene. He is from a celebrated lineage of musicians. He has performed in over 40 countries, has appeared in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Concertgebouw, has released several CD’s, among them “Times In New Orleans”, “Live In New York: At The Rubin Museum Of Art”, and “MY N.Y.”, and EP’s “The Amazing Jon Batiste EP” and “In The Night EP”.

January 31, 2012 / Featured, Presenters, Videos / by Peter

Jason Silva: Ecstatic futurist + techno-philosopher

Jason Silva is a Futurist, filmmaker and techno-philosopher, Jason Silva has been described as “a digital DJ, a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe…” From 2005 to 2011, Venezuela-born Silva was a presenter on Current TV, the Emmy-winning cable network started by Al Gore. In 2011 Jason became a fellow at the Hybrid Realities Institute and launched a series of short-form videos exploring our ‘Human/Technology Co-Evolution’, the last of [...]

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Jeff Snyder: Composer, Improviser, Electronic Instrument-Designer

May 11, 2013 / Events, Presenters, Videos

Jeff Snyder is a composer, improviser and instrument-designer living in Princeton, New Jersey, and active in the New York City area. He performs on analog modular synthesizer in duos with Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, Cenk Ergun and Federico Ughi, and also leads a band as his electro-country alter ego Owen Lake. He is currently an Associate Research Scholar in the Music Department at Princeton University, and the Associate Director of PLOrk, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra. In 2011, he received a [...]
Duann Scott: The Future of 3-D Printing

May 9, 2013 / Blog, Presenters, Videos

Duann Scott, Designer Evangelist, Shapeways: Duann Scott is an Industrial Designer, writer and researcher specializing in the democratization of product design through online digital fabrication. He works with Shapeways to help promote the 3D printing company and its community. With experience bringing bespoke products to being through traditional fabrication techniques and cutting edge 3D printing technologies Duann’spractical experience combined with his academic research into the social implications of digital fabrication gives him a broad understanding of the field as it [...]
Lucid NYC 4/3/2013 Pics

April 11, 2013 / Events, Photos, Presenters
Jesse Sheidlower: Oxford English Dictionary and the Digital Revolution

March 22, 2013 / Blog, Events, Videos

Lexicographer and language expert Jesse Sheidlower explains how words get adopted into the Oxford English Dictionary and how the digital revolution will effect the evolution of language as we know it. He is the Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary; the author of “The F-Word”, a detailed history of the word fuck; as well as the President of the American Dialect Society.
James George: RGBD Toolkit Media Artist

March 22, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Media artist and super coder, James George, re-imagines the future of filmmaking through new open source 3D software that will significantly lower the barriers to entry, all while using commercially available hardware. See excerpts from his upcoming documentary “Clouds” which filmed with the new technology with stunning results.
LucidNYC 0220 Event [PHOTOS]

March 4, 2013 / Events, Photos

In case you missed it, here are some photos from our sold out February 20th LucidNYC event at Drom. Presenters: Magic man, Mark Mitton, showed some tricks, and taught us some tricks, in order to illustrate why deception is a great way to better understand perception. James George, explained how his 3D film making RGBDToolkit came about and why it’s a portal into the future of film making and how how it is empowering discoveries from passionate individuals working together in online communities to turn technology on its head, and how large companies will have no choice but to follow. And Jesse Sheidlower explained the history and future of dictionaries and how the digital revolution will affect [not "effect"] the evolution of dictionaries as we know them. Add live jazz from Mark Devine, 150 attendees and just the right amount of food and alcohol and PRESTO! Now that’s magic!
Dr. Ken Kamler: How to Fix a Broken Astronaut, Trailer

February 2, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Kenneth Kamler, M.D., is an orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center who practices surgery of the hand in New York, but practices extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth. He has treated bear bite in the Arctic and frostbite in the Antarctic. He has set fractures in the Andes and cared for out-of-breath scuba divers in the Galapagos. He has performed surgery in the mud of the Amazon rainforest and in a NASA undersea [...]
Dr. Joseph Romm: Language Intelligence & Rhetoric

February 2, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Dr. Joseph Romm is the author of newly released title, “Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga”. If you want to learn how to make friends and influence people then this presentation is for you! Romm is best known as the creator of the blog, ClimateProgress.org and has been recognized by Rolling Stone magazine on a list of “100 People Who Are Changing America”. Romm is a Senior Fellow at American Progress. He oversees the [...]
Ethan Perlstein: Crowdsourcing Science Funding

February 2, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Dr. Ethan Perlstein is a Princeton researcher studying what actually happens at the cellular level with methamphetamines. While his research is new, so too is his method for funding it. Dr Perlstein has successfully raised money for his work through crowdsourcing. He is also pioneering a new ‘Open Science’ approach towards research. Is this the future of scientific funding and discovery? Dr. Perlstien will share his ‘Nate Silver’ statistical approach to crowdsourcing. You be the judge.
Dave Gallo – Explores the Oceans’ Mysteries & Reveals Newest Footage of The Titanic Wreck

January 13, 2013 / Featured, Presenters, Videos

David Gallo was one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of submarines and robots to map the undersea world. The Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he has taken part in an exploration of RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck using the Russian MIR submarines, as well as a recent expedition to find the lost WWII submarine USS Grunion. Dr. Gallo is currently interested in understanding the relationship between humanity and the sea. [...]
Michael Karnjanaprakorn – Founder & CEO of Skillshare.com, Internet & Education

January 13, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Michael Karnjanaprakorn – Michael is the CEO/co-founder of Skillshare, a community marketplace for classes. Skillshare is a community of teachers and students driven by a passion to share real-word skills through collaborative learning. Previously, Michael led the product team at Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook, and developed products and services that organized the creative world at Behance. Michael is also a Venture Advisor for Collaborative Fund, 2012 TED Fellow, and listed as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012 by Fast Company. Michael is a graduate of [...]
Dr. Martin Chalfie – Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Green Fluorescent Protien

January 13, 2013 / Presenters, Videos

Martin Chalfie – is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences.[1] He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”.[2] He holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University. Chalfie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He slept through the phone call [...]