Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Picture a modern commercial airliner cruising at 38,000 feet through pitch-black skies over the Mediterranean. The ride is smooth, the cockpit instruments are calm, and suddenly an automated, mechanical voice pierces the darkness: “Terrain, Terrain. Pull Up”. The flight crew faces a terrifying split-second dilemma: are they seconds away from slamming
Continue Reading The Post-GPS Battlefield – Navigating in the Dark with Atomic Magnetometers
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Quantum computing has long suffered from an exhausting public relations cycle: on one side lies the distant theoretical promise of world-altering supremacy; on the other, the sobering reality of noisy, fragile hardware confined to academic cleanrooms. During the session titled Quantum Convergence, Jerry Chow, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. More than two centuries ago, the French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace conceptualized a powerful scientific thought experiment that would become known to history as Laplace’s Demon. If an intellect could know the exact positions and forces acting on every particle in the universe, nothing would be uncertain; the future and the past
Continue Reading Escaping Flatland: Biological World Models and the Laplace Engine
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. As the world wrestles with record-shattering global temperatures, a sobering technological contradiction has taken center stage: the rapid expansion of modern artificial intelligence is running on an immense supply of fossil fuel power. In her compelling keynote address, Evelyn Wang, Vice President for Energy and Climate at MIT and former Director
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I have slowly been extracting myself from Google services. It’s not hard to understand why. Over time, the balance between what I had to give and what I received got out of balance. The hardest ones have been their core PIM offerings: Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. I have been looking for awhile for a groupware offering
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This week we talk with Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch, and Heather Rodriguez, the company’s enterprise account executive. Ross built BriefCatch to put the lessons from his books and workshops in front of lawyers while they write. It started as a rules engine that flagged everything from typos to sentence flow. He admits he was
Continue Reading Legal Writing When the First Draft Is Cheap: Ross Guberman and Heather Rodriguez of BriefCatch
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. In modern corporate cybersecurity, an uncomfortable truth has emerged: the bad guys adopted generative artificial intelligence faster, more aggressively, and with far fewer ethical inhibitions than corporate boardrooms. During the session titled AI x Cybersecurity, Tom Kellermann, Vice President of AI Security and Threat Research at Trend Micro (AI), joined virtually
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