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A Visual Diary: On Dementia & Caregiving

Tony Luciani

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Harnessing Reputations To Inspire Altruism

Erez Yoeli

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Dematerialization: Humanity’s Biggest Surprise

Andrew McAfee

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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?

David Autor

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The Cost Of Missing Something

Tricia Wang

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The Social Dilemma Of Driverless Cars

Iyad Rahwan

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2019 Salons

Melissa Ferrick

Salon Performance: Melissa Ferrick

Max Krasnow

Altruism Is Selfish, And That’s Ok

Bethany Burum

Why Is Morality So Puzzling?

Boston Dance Theater

Salon Performance: Boston Dance Theater

Erik Thulin

Saving Nature With Behavioral Science

Scott Lindell

Farming The Ocean To Feed The World

Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir

Salon Performance: Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir

Cansu Canca

How To Solve AI’s Ethical Puzzles

Kade Crockford

Why Face Surveillance Must Be Banned

2019

Ruby Rose Fox

Event Performance: Ruby Rose Fox

Anthony Jack

On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion

Dorsa Amir

How Industrialization Changed Childhood

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Why We Should Be More Sexist

Ashley Whillans

A Simple Strategy For Happiness

Erin Kelly

Who Belongs In Prison?

Rafael Campo

How Poetry Heals Us

Will Dailey

Event Performance: Will Dailey

2018 Salons

Anjimile

Salon Performance: Anjimile

Laura Gee

Certainty Inspires Action

David Rand

How You Can Help Combat Fake News

Molly Zenobia

Salon Performance: Molly Zenobia

Esteban Moro

Overcoming Urban Isolation

Matthew Claudel

Civic Innovation: A Future For Cities & Technology

Kate Jeffrey

Why Are Diseases Of Affluence & Age Rising?

Robert Moir

Are Infections Causing Alzheimer’s Disease?

2018

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Cultivating Wisdom: The Power Of Mood

Sebastian Buckup

Breaking Big: Fixing Our Godzilla Problem

Joel Salinas

We’re All Weird And That’s Normal

Andrew McAfee

Dematerialization: Humanity’s Biggest Surprise

Andrea Lauer

“Untitled” The Future Of How We Work

Erez Yoeli

Harnessing Reputations To Inspire Altruism

Tony Luciani

A Visual Diary: On Dementia & Caregiving

2017 Salons

Daniela Rus

Unleashing Your Inner Maker

Andrew Lo

Hacking Humanity

Jessika Trancik

How To Make Technology Solve Big Problems?

Polina Anikeeva

Why You Shouldn’t Upload Your Brain To A Computer

Iyad Rahwan

Why We Need A New, Algorithmic Social Contract

Kevin Esvelt

Can We Engineer Social Ecosystems?

R.D. King

Salon Performance: R.D. King

2017

Michael & Amy Port

How To Perform During Life’s High Stakes Moments

Glenn Cohen

Are There Non-human Persons? Are There Non-person Humans?

Mike Boston

What Freedom Of Expression Really Means

Tsedal Neeley

Why Global Success Depends On Separating Language & Culture

Dheeraj Roy

Do We Really Forget In Alzheimer’s?

Phunk Phenomenon

Event Performance: Phunk Phenomenon

2016 / Fall

David Autor

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?

Iyad Rahwan

The Social Dilemma Of Driverless Cars

Tricia Wang

The Cost Of Missing Something

Laura Gassner Otting

Stop Asking “How Can I Help?”

Mark Gendreau

How To Stay Healthy

Janet Wu

Redefining Happiness

MASARY Studios

Event Performance: MASARY Studios

2016 / Spring

Luminarium Dance

Event Performance: Luminarium

Brian Olson

Engineering Elections Without Bias

Rebecca Saxe

Baby Brains: Unlocking Our Humanity

Susan Schneider

Can A Robot Feel?

Jon Feinman

Stopping The Cycle Of Incarceration

Kevin Esvelt

Openly Engineering Our Ecosystems

Adam Melonas

Food As A Religion

MASARY Studios

Event Performance: MASARY Studios

2015 / Fall

Daniel Koh

What Government Can Learn From Baseball

Andrew Lo

Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?

Mina Cikara

When ‘I’ Becomes ‘We’

Primavera De Filippi

From Competition To Cooperation

Adam Cohen

Lighting Up The Brain

Julie Shah

Engineering Intelligent Machine Teammates

2015 / Spring

Gina Razón

Learning To Breathe Again

Bernat Olle

Ending The War On Microbes

Kayla Montgomery

Multiple Sclerosis Made Me A Better Runner

Hasier Larrea

What If Furniture Had Superpowers?

Sebastian Wernicke

Better Decision Making, As Seen On TV

Polina Anikeeva

Rethinking The Brain Machine Interface

Sep Kamvar

Cultivating Organic Learning Environments

2014 / Fall

Lotfi Merabet

Blindness Is Just Another Way Of Seeing

Tali Sharot

How To Motivate Yourself To Change Your Behavior

Gabriel Stulman

A Winning Recipe: Lessons From Restaurants On Engaging Your Team

Tyler Jacks

Life Lessons From 34 Years Of Fighting Cancer

Colleen Macklin

What We Learn From Recess

Linda Hill

Collective Genius: The Key To Leading Innovation

Peter Hurley Anna Rowley

Bridging The Self-Acceptance Gap With “Psyphotology”

2014 / Spring

Sebastien Christian

How Words Create Worlds

Hamid Ghanadan

Persuading The Scientific Mind

Tobias Otting

We All Have A Voice

Max Tegmark

Consciousness Is A Mathematical Pattern

Maggie Campbell

Living A Life Without Compromise

Tom Asacker

Why TED Talks Don’t Change People’s Behaviors

Christopher Ahlberg

Navigating The Future With Web Data

2013

Sara Seager

A Real Search For Alien Life

Bruce Schneier

The Battle For Power On The Internet

Todd Rogers

Turning Mass Intention Into Mass Action

Deepak Jagdish Daniel Smilkov

The Power Of Metadata

Zeynep Ton

The Good Jobs Strategy

Manolis Kellis

Decoding A Genomic Revolution

Ariel Diaz

Inverting The Curriculum

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