Deb Roy: The birth of a word (TED)

Original website : TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

About this talk :
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
About Deb RoyDeb Roy studies how children learn language, and designs machines that learn to communicate in human-like ways. Currently on sabbatical from MIT Media Lab, he's working with the AI company Bluefin Labs.

Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/deb_roy.html

External links : * Home: Cognitive Machines at MIT : http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/ * Home: bluefinlabs.com : http://www.bluefinlabs.com/

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http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/DebRoy_2011_480.mp4

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[KidsAtoZ]

As a neuro-cognitive scientist and child development specialist, I think the potential contribution of these findings to how we understand child development both cognitive-linguistic, speech-motor and even gross motor is amazing. What this can mean for early intervention to mitigate the explosion of child language disorders, mostly in, but not limited to Autism, is inspiring. Dr. T - KidsAtoZ

[zukacs]

Data is so beatiful

[jgmoomaw]

Those "wordscapes" blew my mind. What an incredible data collection!

[MrOhyes02]

who needs precious beautiful home videos of your first child, when you have lonely scientific data?

[Mantramurtim]

WOW! This is so amazing!

Could you do this real time with real time events? Like have microphones in a party/a conference/a sports event/and so on and get a realtime graph building on your computer screen of key-words being expressed and connections being made? The applications of this could really open up some cool creative spaces.

The implications of this with surveilance tech do scare me though.

Again, totally amazing!

[FanOfZwicky]

If he could explain such a mind boggling work with such dullness. I wonder how his students tolerate him in class. :-|

[tob323]

Can't wait to use the term "co-viewing clique" in a meeting!

Fascinating work. All of it.

@tomob

[tob323]

Can't wait to use the term "co-viewing clique" in a meeting!

Fascinating work.

@tomob

[UnhingedMelodies]

Okay, just had my mind blown. Starts off quite interesting, then gets a bit "post hoc, ergo propter hoc", then gets VERY interesting, takes a sharp left, going down a different road - amazing visuals - and then has a very sweet, moving ending.

[Expedio7]

This Ted Talk is wild 

[RobCardIV]

ROFL.

NO SHIT.

granted. this is amazingly interesting.

but it all proved "when we talked simply, he learned quickly" we noticed the patters.

no shit X_x.

its all about understanding where your baby is, at any giving second, and speaking what he understands.