Press & Talks
Media coverage, features, and speaking engagements.
Press & Media
15 Million MCQ Worksheets Scanned in 5 Days — Rajasthan State Assessment Milestone
Half-yearly state assessment, 5M students across 65,000 schools, 80% time saved
How Smart Paper Is Transforming Handwritten Assessments at Scale
Smart Paper / Playpower Labs, India
Gujarat Startup's AI Transforms Rajasthan School Assessment
Print feature on Smart Paper pilot in Jodhpur district, 3,000+ teacher hours saved
Smart Paper Recognized by UNESCO for Pioneering AI in Learning Assessment
Smart Paper / Playpower Labs, India
Smart Paper wins Aegis Graham Bell Award for Innovation in AI for Education
India's largest innovation awards — Innovation in AI for Education
Smart Paper named winner — UNESCO AI in Learning Assessment Challenge
Smart Paper / EdOptimize / Playpower Labs
Rajasthan Ke Shiksha Mein Badhate Kadam (RKSMBK)
Case study of Playpower Labs / Smart Paper deployment in 65,000 Rajasthan schools
Positive Artificial Intelligence vibes
In Rajasthan Schools, AI Is Teacher And Examiner
Smart Paper / Playpower Labs, India
AI can tell what song you are listening to from your brainwaves
New A.I. can identify the song you're listening to by reading your brain waves
How are You Doing? Researchers Hope to Measure Well-Being at Global Scale
New mobile platform can address another serious complication of COVID-19
How jargon is killing innovation
Kaplan and Techstars Announce the 2014 Kaplan EdTech Accelerator Class
New Approaches to Teaching Fractions
Preventing the "Summer Slide" in Math Skills
$12 Computer for the Developing World
Can a $12 Computer Change the World?
PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century
UC San Diego Students Seek to Improve Education with $12 Computers
$12 Computer: Playpower Wants to Save the World 8 Bits at a Time
PopTech Social Innovation Fellow
Researchers Propose $12 Computer for Developing Countries
Selected Talks
Vibe Coding Workshop
IT University of Copenhagen (HCI Design Section)
Hands-on follow-up to an invited HCI talk: helping participants with no programming background ship real software using Claude Code and AI-assisted development.
AI and Experience Design — IDE Master Class
TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering
Two-day masterclass for working professionals on integrating AI into design practice. Online primer on May 13; in-person sessions May 20–21.
Vibe Coding Workshops (recurring)
Embassy of the Free Mind, Amsterdam
Ongoing workshop series at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica teaching AI-assisted software building to scholars, librarians, and artists. The March 13 “Vibe Coding Amsterdam | Show & Tell” featured seven AI projects.
Workshop on AI, Creativity and Esotericism
Embassy of the Free Mind, Amsterdam
Sold-out afternoon workshop at the BPH on creative rituals to explore human-AI resonance — vibe coding, AI translations of ancient texts, digital divination, philosopher agents, future scrying. Co-hosted with Michell Zappa (Envisioning).
Humanist AI: Translating the Ancient World
Design Thinking Zeal (online)
Talk on a vision for humanist AI grounded in the Source Library project at the Embassy of the Free Mind — building the largest library of translated ancient texts.
AI Coaching at the Internet Archive
Internet Archive, San Francisco
Workshops and coaching sessions on AI-assisted research and digital preservation, around the Internet Archive's World Digital Preservation Day events.
Quantum Resonance — interactive exhibit
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (Salle des Actes / Salle des Pas Perdus)
Co-created with Martijn Weber for the Opening Ceremony of the UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (Feb 4–5, 2025). Visitors explored how resonance and interference patterns shape both the quantum world and cymatic visualizations.
Smart Paper for Learning Assessment
UNESCO
Talk at UNESCO on Smart Paper — a low-cost AI tool to assess math and literacy skills now used by 4.7M+ students across India.
The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
OZORA Festival, Hungary (Chambok House)
Invited lecture; second talk: “Vibes, Resonance and Harmony in the Age of AI.”
Designing with AI — Professional Master Class
TU Delft IDE (open-enrollment)
Two-day masterclass for working professionals from companies including ASML, Silver Cross, and ABN Amro Bank.
Neural Resonance in Aesthetic Experiences
Stanford EEG Topics Seminar
Presentation of an open EEG dataset on music listening alongside research on neural resonance in aesthetic experience.
Speaker / Artist
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)
Listed as artist/speaker at ADE.
Feeling Music — The Sonics of Emotion
Pitch & Sync podcast
Podcast conversation on neural resonance theory: that we don't just process symbols, we literally resonate with music.
Resonance & A.I. — Interview
Radio Ozora
Interview at Ozora on resonance, vibes, and the design of AI systems.
AI in Creativity — Workshop for Creatives, Designers & Educators
ChatGPT Education Conference
Interactive workshop demonstrating how AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT can enhance creative practice.
AI and Creativity
Dutch Design Week 2024, Eindhoven
Interactive session at Design Academy Eindhoven on creative practice with generative AI.
AI & Experience Design Conference
TU Delft
Keynote on frontiers of generative AI for meaningful design experiences.
Talk at Het Landjuweel Festival
Ruigoord, Amsterdam
Talk at Amsterdam's oldest festival on AI, resonance, and design.
Talk at Mo:Dem Festival
Mo:Dem Festival, Croatia
Talk at the international psytrance gathering on resonance and AI.
Design Resonance
Experience Research Society Summit, Provo / Salt Lake City
Keynote on resonance, harmony, and vibes as principles for experience design.
AI & Cocktails (recurring series)
TU Delft StudioLab / IDE
Long-running Friday-afternoon mixer where designers, students, and faculty experiment with new generative AI tools over cocktails. Started September 2022.
The $12 Computer
PopTech, Camden, ME
How 8-bit gaming platforms can deliver education to the developing world.
Playpower! $12 Computers for Radically Affordable Computer-Aided Learning
O'Reilly ETech, San Jose
Original Playpower talk introducing the $12 computer concept for global education.
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