The Science of Imagination

March, 2010, TEDxCarletonU

On March 30, 2010, I gave a talk at TEDxCarletonU. You can see the talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caBIboOGSe4 or you can watch it on youtube.com by clicking below:

You can read my transcript of my talk (what I'd planned to say, anyway).

Here are some links related to the TEDxCarletonU event:

• The TEDxCarletonU website: http://tedxcarletonu.com/
• The page for my talk on that webpage: http://tedxcarletonu.com/jimdavies/
• You can see all the speakers at http://tedxcarletonu.com/category/speakers/
• You can watch all the talks in a row at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=96441F832093834A
• You can follow TEDxCarletonU on twitter at: http://twitter.com/TEDxCarletonU
• You can see pictures from the event at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedxcarletonu/

I got some media attention from this gig:

• My interview on CBC radio's "all in a day" with Alan Neal: [mp3] (right click to download-- click "save link as").
  • You can also stream it from http://soundcloud.com/scjimmyd/2010-all-in-a-day-jimdavies
• An article about me in Carleton's student newspaper, The Charlatan: http://www.charlatan.ca/content/tedx-spreads-worthy-ideas

I mention several projects in the talk:

• The Visuo Program
• The Image Oracle
• The spatial relationship detectors (coming soon)
• A longer version of the talk I gave at Google in 2010.

I'd like to thank my students who helped with the research presented: Jonathan Gagné, Connor Smith, and Cesar Astudillo. Thanks also to Luc Lalande, who put TEDxCarltonU together, and his team of students who helped, including Ahmad Akkaoui (who helped film), Abdulla Al-Ogail (filming and editing), Nic Osborne (social media marketing), Erin Thibodeau (marketing), and especially Amanda Emmanuel, who made the fabulous movie that functioned as the slides of my talk.