Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water
Simone Bianco y Tom Zimmerman: El maravilloso mundo de la vida en una gota de agua
A theoretical physicist by training, IBM's Simone Bianco believes that the 21st century will be the century when the synergy between AI and biology will be fully realized. Full bioTom Zimmerman - Master inventor
Tom Zimmerman is a master inventor at IBM Research – Almaden exploring the frontiers of human-machine interaction and environmental sensing. Full bio
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on a fantastic journey
llevarlos en un viaje fantástico
que llamamos los Ancianos.
because a half a billion years ago
porque hace 500 millones de años
of oxygen in the air,
de oxígeno en el aire,
but you probably know them as plankton.
pero Uds. quizá los conocen como plancton.
and I'm an inventor.
sobre un invento mío,
about an invention I made --
could solve a big problem he was having.
podía resolverle un gran problema:
of plankton in 3D fast enough
en 3D a una velocidad suficiente
their sensing and behavior.
sus sentidos y comportamientos.
for my microscope, so ...
para mi microscopio...
y la manteca de maní.
studying these amazing creatures.
estudiando estas criaturas asombrosas,
to discover something.
por un descubrimiento que hicimos.
your breath for a second.
un momento, por favor.
two-thirds of our oxygen using the sun.
de nuestro oxígeno gracias al sol.
because they're still here.
porque todavía hay plancton.
como muchos de Uds. saben,
surface temperature of the earth
en la superficie terrestre
we are pumping into the air.
que enviamos a la atmósfera.
may not seem like a big deal to us,
no es gran cosa para nosotros,
that the global phytoplankton population
que la población global de fitoplancton
as 40 percent between 1950 and 2010
hasta un 40 % entre 1950 y 2010
the fish that eat them.
se están muriendo de hambre.
around the world
de personas en el mundo
of protein from animals.
como fuente de proteína animal.
about breathing.
we will need to replace.
un montón de comida.
that is interesting.
of the carbon we burn today.
del carbono que hoy quemamos.
clean that carbon out of the air.
elimina ese carbono del aire.
hold a grudge.
of carbon we are dumping into the air.
de carbono que emitimos.
that our big carbon footprint
huella de carbono
that sustain us.
a las criaturas que nos sostienen.
that allow us to breathe
que nos permiten respirar
el plancton es diminuto,
about something you cannot see.
por algo que uno no puede ver.
in "The Little Prince" that goes,
que me gusta mucho:
is invisible to the eye."
that if more people could come
si más gente pudiera encontrarse
we could all rally together
para salvar a estas criaturas
to life on our planet.
scuba diving with plankton.
by a factor of 1000,
su tamaño 1000 veces,
of a human hair is as big as my hand.
de un pelo humano es grande como mi mano.
a machine to do just that.
una máquina que hace exactamente eso.
"Fantastic Voyage"
de la película "Viaje fantástico"
favorite actors.
favoritos de todos los tiempos.
I saw "Fantastic Voyage,"
por el torrente sanguíneo
through the bloodstream
la biología a nivel celular.
by science fiction.
la ciencia ficción.
and turn fantasy into reality.
la fantasía en realidad.
people like you explore the virtual world.
como Uds. a explorar el mundo virtual.
el mundo microscópico.
that got Simone's attention.
que le llamó la atención a Simone.
behind the lens.
detrás de la lente.
of plankton water
de agua con plancton,
change the water on.
le cambio el agua.
of the plankton on the image sensor.
en el sensor de imagen.
is an XY plotter,
es un plóter de dos ejes,
to follow the plankton as they swim.
para seguir al plancton mientras nada.
un sensor de inclinación
the microscope with my head.
el microscopio con la cabeza.
from this image sensor.
del sensor de imagen.
I can move the microscope.
puedo mover el microscopio.
to go scuba diving with plankton.
para bucear con el plancton.
of life in a drop of water.
de la vida en una gota de agua.
at all limited to a single drop.
para nada a una simple gota.
in the center of your screen,
en el centro de la pantalla
of our waters.
by the environment.
nature is an amazing recycler.
capacidad de reciclaje.
they are decomposed and recycled,
descomponiendo y reciclando estructuras,
by solar energy.
if, you know, our garbage collectors
nuestros recolectores de basura
Let's look for something else.
ice-cream-cone-shaped things?
con forma de cono de helado?
those are amazing creatures.
son criaturas fascinantes.
but they are a single cell.
que vimos recién?
it's about 1,000 cells --
y tienen unas 1000 células.
15 for the stomach
15 en el estómago,
for reproduction,
para la reproducción,
if you ask me.
una buena proporción.
and react to its environment.
y reaccionar a él.
when it's happy;
to get away from something
tratando de escaparse de algo
de una sustancia tóxica.
for Cellular Construction
"Centro de Construcción Celular"
"Fundación Nacional de Ciencia",
Science Foundation,
of contamination in food and water,
contaminación en alimentos y agua,
that are, let's say, behind everything,
que están, digamos, detrás de todo,
the majority of oxygen in the air.
la mayor parte del oxígeno en el aire.
and carbon dioxide
y el dióxido de carbono
your lungs right now.
respirando en este momento.
got their photosynthesis capability
la capacidad de hacer fotosíntesis
tiny plankton into their cells.
pero muy pequeño en sus células.
solar panels on top of our roofs.
ponemos paneles solares en el techo.
is even more amazing than science fiction.
es más asombroso que la ciencia ficción.
how vital plankton are to our lives
el plancton en nuestras vidas
take your pick.
you win or you die.
we have known about global warming
que sabemos del calentamiento global.
scientist, Arrhenius,
quemar combustibles fósiles
of burning fossil fuel
but it's not too late if we act now.
pero aún estamos a tiempo de hacer algo.
our world is based on fossil fuels,
a base de combustible fósil.
to run on renewable energy from the Sun
a funcionar con energía solar renovable
and secure future.
más sostenible y más confiable.
here, the plankton,
criaturas, el plancton,
y les digo por qué.
of people all around the globe
de la gente en todo el mundo
they're swimming around,
to eat and reproduce.
para comer y reproducirse.
está programada para hacer eso,
have the same agenda.
estén tratando de hacer lo mismo.
makes a country vulnerable.
nos convierte en un país vulnerable.
all around the oil resources.
en las zonas petroleras.
is distributed around the whole globe,
está distribuida en todo el mundo,
son una especie de cigarrillo global.
coal is like an unfiltered type.
es como un cigarrillo sin filtro.
the best time to quit is when?
¿cuándo es el mejor momento de dejarlos?
tengamos cáncer de pulmón.
some people may abandon facts and reason.
la razón e ignora la evidencia.
e ignoran la evidencia,
and inevitably force change.
los obliga a cambiar, inevitablemente.
our neocortex, our new brain,
el cerebro recientemente evolucionado,
creatures on the earth.
unas de las criaturas más antiguas.
to harness the energy
para aprovechar la energía
for millions of years --
durante millones de años:
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Simone Bianco - Cell engineerA theoretical physicist by training, IBM's Simone Bianco believes that the 21st century will be the century when the synergy between AI and biology will be fully realized.
Why you should listen
Simone Bianco, PhD, is research staff member and IBM rock star at IBM Research – Almaden, where he leads the Cellular Engineering group. He's passionate about making biology a quantitative science by using tools from mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science. He believes this interdisciplinary approach will not only impact biological and medical fields but also will advance biologically inspired engineering and computer science. His research spans many scientific fields, from genomic and evolutionary biology to bioengineering, epidemiology, statistical physics and computer science.
Bianco studied physics at the University of Pisa, Italy, the school of Galileo Galilei and Enrico Fermi, and he got his PhD from the University of North Texas. He held research appointments at the College of William and Mary and at the University of California San Francisco. Bianco is a founding principal investigator of the Center for Cellular Construction, an NSF funded multi-institution initiative which aims to build self-organized devices from living organisms.
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Tom Zimmerman - Master inventor
Tom Zimmerman is a master inventor at IBM Research – Almaden exploring the frontiers of human-machine interaction and environmental sensing.
Why you should listen
Tom Zimmerman has more than 60 patents on user input devices, wireless communication, image and audio signal processing, biometrics, encryption and microscopy. His Data Glove and PowerGlove inventions helped establish the field of virtual reality. His electric field Personal Area Network invention sends data through the human body, and it can prevent airbags from injuring children in cars. Zimmerman's environmental work includes research on the yaw stability of wind turbines and solar thermal storage at MIT, and building wireless sensors to monitor sea turtles in the US and Costa Rica.
Zimmerman is currently developing AI-powered microscopes to monitor plankton in their natural environment and studying the response of plankton to toxins in his work with the Center For Cellular Construction. He supports the DIY community through articles in Make Magazine and his passion for volunteering in the public schools earned him the California Medal for Service from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver.
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