4. The Discrete Events Calculus (January 27, 2010)

Stuart Kauffman, Professor at Tampere University of Technology, discusses the idea of adjacent possibilities and the evolution of products that have created the economic circumstances in the world today. (March 3, 2010)

Hal Whitehead and Peter Richerson discuss their work modeling of evolution of cultural capacity and population collapse, focusing on the influence of environmental variation and different learning strategies. (February 24, 2010)

Roberto Ierusalimschy, professor at the Pontificial University in Rio de Janeiro, lectures about the Lua programming language. Ierusalimschy was the primary creator of Lua and he talks about the nuances of the systems and its potential. (March 10, 2010)

Glenn Hinton of Intel Corporation talks about Nehalem Microarchitecture. Intel's Nehalem Family of CPUs span from large multi-socket 32 core/64 thread systems to ultra small form factor laptops. (February 17, 2010)