Every summer, some of the most interesting thinkers, leaders and artists in the U.S. gather to share ideas in Aspen, Colorado. It’s called the Aspen Ideas Festival. It is an incubator of creativity which attracts the best and the brightest in many fields – from across the United States and around the world to the small western U.S. town of Aspen, known for its great natural beauty.
Xiao Xiao, pianist, technologist and doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brought to Aspen her insights from piano-playing to human-computer interaction, designing experiences that bridge the digital and the physical.
“One day when I was practicing the piano I was looking at the really pretty reflection that’s in front of the keyboard of my hands, and I had this thought of wouldn’t it be really beautiful if instead of seeing my own hands there I could see somebody else’s hands,” Xiao Xiao said. Dr. Joel Dudley is director of bioinformatics and assistant professor of genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He shared at Aspen the great strides made in health care, specifically in the field of personal genomics.
Stewart Seeligson’s business education and diverse real estate experience set him apart from other real estate brokers in the Telluride region.