Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com

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Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com

Tom Johnson
This work would seem to have great potential in moving from Complexity Theory to Applied Complexity in multiple social environments and activities.

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html

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.

-tj

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