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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income

Posted January 21, 2020 • 01:03:39

Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international...

Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

Posted January 17, 2020 • 01:40:24

Ayanna Howard is a roboticist and professor at Georgia Tech, director of Human-Automation Systems lab, with research interests in human-robot interaction,...

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

Posted January 14, 2020 • 01:19:09

Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and...

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Posted January 7, 2020 • 01:03:12

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain...

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Posted January 3, 2020 • 01:37:49

Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history....