Chris Anderson, editor-in-cheif of Wired Magazine, discusses the content of his book The Long Tail. The book takes a look at the emerging trends in relation to having access to nearly endless amount of information and content.

Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, speaks at Google. Luis talks about his research on utilizing the abilities of humans to solve problems which are difficult for computers by creating games for people to play.

Over 9 Billion human hours of solitaire were played in 2003. It took 7 million human hours to build the entire Empire State Building. It turns out it took 20 million human hours to build the entire Panama canal. I want to show how we can make good use of these wasted human cycles and that is what I mean by human computation.
-Luis von Ahn

Nuno Vasconcelos, Professor at USCD, explains his research on Supervised Multi-class Labeling and how training computers to visually identify objects is extremely similar to that of teaching a human.

Munjal Shah, CEO of Riya, talks with Robert Scoble about how his company which heavily focused on developing face recognition software and is now developing the worlds best visual search engine Like.com. Munjal explains how Contextual Recognition works and why they decided to redirect the attention of their large pool of PhD employees to online shopping.

Stan Lee of Marvel Comics sits down with Jim Lee, arguably the greatest comic book artist ever, in this amazing 7 part series: Comic Book Greats. Jim Lee talks about his drawing process, image composition, and his inspiration

Designers at Bungie Studios, makers of the game Halo, discuss the trials and tribulations that go into designing fun and engaging multiplayer maps that are as exciting after playing 100, 200, and even 1000 times.