Writing with Impact
61-minute presentation/video for LinkedIn, lynda.com.
There's no such thing as generic "good" writing. Writing quality—and impact—comes from how well it fits its purpose. This course shows how to give all…...
Writing White Papers
39-minute presentation/video/white paper for LinkedIn, lynda.com.
White papers were originally produced by governments, but now serve a vital purpose in marketing departments worldwide. A white paper is a deep dive into…...
Writing Case Studies
39-minute case study/presentation/video for LinkedIn, lynda.com.
Another in a series of "genre writing" courses. Previous ones are Writing Formal Business Letters and Emails and Writing Articles. Available on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.…...
Learning Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies (2018)
76-minute presentation/video for LinkedIn, lynda.com.
A ground-up rewrite of my highly successful 2014 course, Learning Bitcoin. The new version includes information about Ethereum, Ripple, IOTA, and ICOs. Description by Lynda.com:…...
Traveling for Business
41-minute presentation/video for lynda.com.
Travel is expensive, so you need to be sure your time "on the road" justifies the investment. In this course, Tom Geller outlines what you…...
Writing Formal Business Letters and Emails
38-minute presentation/video for lynda.com.
Learn how to write formal business letters and emails that are short, clear, and to the point. This course teaches you how to get results…...
Video for “Computational Support for Academic Peer Review”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Two professors at the University of Bristol discuss how to apply artificial intelligence to improve the peer-review process for journals and conferences....
Video for “Model Learning”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Frits Vaandrager of Radboud University (The Netherlands), on a system that probes unknown systems to figure out their inner logic....
Video for “Cell-Graphs”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A talk with RPI Professor Bülent Yener about a method that lets graph theory help identify diseased tissue....
Video for “The 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum”
7-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A promotional video about the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a week-long meeting of 200 advanced young researchers in math and computer science, together with about two…...
Video for “Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Matei Zaharia talks about his creation Apache Spark, a modular platform for performing calculations on big data....
Video for “A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Vanderbilt University Dean M. Eric Johnson reviews how medical device security issues, including those in their software, have threatened health in the past, and summarizes…...
Video for “DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge”
8-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
On-site report from Las Vegas of the "DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge", a multi-million dollar, U.S. government-sponsored competition where computers try to hack each other. Covered…...
Video for “Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with University of Pennsylvania Professor Susan Davidson about the need to change how source information is cited in (for example) academic papers. She…...
Video for “Computational Biology in the 21st Century”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with ACM Fellow and MIT Professor Bonnie Berger about how to improve computer handling of biological data, specifically relating to genomes....
Video for “Whitfield Diffie/Martin Hellman, 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award Recipients”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Similar to the videos I produced over the past two years to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, and 2014 recipient Michael Stonebraker, this video describes…...
Video for “A Survey of Robotic Musicianship”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Mason Bretan and Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech, discussing how they (and others) have imbued musical "feeling" in robotic systems....
Video for “A Fistful of Bitcoins”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Sarah Meiklejohn, lead author of a paper that describes how she and her colleagues unmasked some bitcoin owners, despite the common belief…...
Drupal 8 Essentials 2: Building Out Your Website
98-minute online/presentation/video for lynda.com.
Your Drupal site is built. Now what? Web design doesn't stop once the website is launched. Learn how to build out your Drupal site to…...
Drupal 8 Essentials 1: Getting Started
137-minute online/presentation/video for lynda.com.
Drupal 8 Essentials is designed to help anyone create a simple website using Drupal, the free web design software that powers personal blogs as well…...