{"id":672,"date":"2011-03-16T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:42:37","slug":"deb-roy-giving-a-ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Deb Roy giving a TED talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param> <param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DebRoy_2011-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DebRoy-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1092&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word;year=2011;theme=how_we_learn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=words_about_words;event=TED2011;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/DebRoy_2011-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DebRoy-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1092&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word;year=2011;theme=how_we_learn;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=words_about_words;event=TED2011;\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n\r\n<p>One of the first things I got as a new PhD student, back in &#8217;01, was a copy of Deb Roy&#8217;s thesis. My supervisor was just back from a sabbatical at MIT and he knew Roy there. The thesis blew me away &#8211; the ideas, the new approaches, this way of learning. Remarkable. The seeds of the work he&#8217;s doing now were present then, but oh my has he moved on too. This is a great talk. Watch it to the end.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I got as a new PhD student, back in &#8217;01, was a copy of Deb Roy&#8217;s thesis. My supervisor was just back from a sabbatical at MIT and he knew Roy there. The thesis blew me away &#8211; the ideas, the new approaches, this way of learning. Remarkable. The seeds of the work he&#8217;s doing now were present then, but oh my has he moved on too. This is a great talk. Watch it to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-geekiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}