Computer-based math @ TED

Amazing reaction to my TED talk starting (even though it will be a while before the video's up...and I can see exactly what I did say!).

So many people at the conference telling me they'd been put off traditional maths and would have found what I'm proposing so much better--more interesting and more useful.

Also got asked for any examples of computer-based maths to play with, like I showed.  One source: 6000+ at our Demonstrations site (get the free Player download from it to interact).

Please do continue to leave ideas and comments.

Upcoming TEDGlobal talk

We've got to change math education radically and get it based fully on computers. That's what I'll talk about at TEDGlobal in what I've entitled "Stop teaching calculating, Start teaching math". I'm hoping to get a real head of steam behind this---a change that's long overdue.

If you're keen to help or just lend support, I'd really like to hear from you... 

Making "knowledge apps" as easily as charts

Tomorrow we're holding our first Computational Knowledge Summit and in preparation for my opening talk I made this simple knowledge app example so I can demo it live.

With our forthcoming widget-building technology and Wolfram|Alpha API, it was pretty much as simple to make as a chart, yet it's packed-in a vastly higher density of information.

Watch this space!

Computing the path to web3.0?

I keep being asked about web3.0, including this week by ITPro.

Well, unsurprisingly, I don't presume to know what will mark out this new integer. But I do think real-time content that's computed and computes will be pretty significant to the web's future development.

Here's where I'm coming from.

Most definitions of web2.0 seem to boil down to "users making the content", often where immediacy is crucial to its significance. But there's also real-time content that's computer generated, where a new answer is made through real-time processing of existing or web2.0 style base content.

Custom, interactive apps made on-the-fly just for you: that's a paradigm shift I'm looking forward to.

Joining the Transmediale "Futurity" festival

Just home from a fun but icy Berlin after my talk that kicked off a session at Transmediale on "Ideologies and Futures of the Internet". Already posted is the talk video.

Update on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 8:59PM by conrad

...and now the Q&A video too