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#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

Posted August 14, 2020 • 02:10:33

Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta....

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

Posted August 9, 2020 • 02:49:14

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated,...

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

Posted July 31, 2020 • 02:29:51

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational,...

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

Posted July 29, 2020 • 02:01:43

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic...

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

Posted July 26, 2020 • 02:08:00

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the...