"In this talk, we will introduce deep learning and review some of the key advances in the field focusing on current attempts at a theoretical understanding. We will highlight today’s most important ideas in the larger quest to demystify the blackbox." Recorded Oct 19th, 2018

Presented December 4th 2018 by Prof. Michael Levin (Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University) Michael Levin Vannevar Bush Professor Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts Director, Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems

Presented by Alex Graves (Google DeepMind) and Marc Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook) Presented December 3rd, 2018 This tutorial Unsupervised Deep Learning will cover in detail, the approach to simply 'predict everything' in the data, typically with a probabilistic model, which can be seen through the lens of the Minimum Description Length principle as an effort to compress the data as compactly as possible. Alex Graves is a research scientist at DeepMind. He did a BSc in Theoretical Physics at Edinburgh and obtained a PhD in AI under Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA. He was also a postdoc at TU Munich and under Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto.

Recorded Dec 3rd, 2018 This tutorial will provide a practical overview of state-of-the-art approaches for analyzing massive data sets using Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. David Dunson Prof. David Dunson is a statistician who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on developing innovative statistical methods for complex and high-dimensional data.

Recorded Oct 11, 2018 In this talk Dr. Cassell will describe some unexpected results about the ways in which social interaction supports and improves task performance in people, and how social interactiohen can profitably be integrated into AI, with implications for the future of AI, the future of work, and the future of social interaction.

Jonathan Dowling is co-director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Hearne chair in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, both at Louisiana State University. He is known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging. August 31st, 2018

Dr. Gerald Gilbert, Chief Scientist and Director for Quantum Systems, leads at the Corporate level all MITRE research in this area. He is the founder of the Quantum Information Science Program at MITRE, founder of the MITRE Quantum Information Science Group and has been Principal Investigator of the MITRE Quantum Information Science Research Project since its inception. August 23rd, 2018

August 31st, 2018 Speaker: Marco Lanzagorta, Naval Research Laboratory The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a half-day colloquium and webcast sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to explore some of the latest developments in quantum sensing and quantum communications. This unclassified event featured individual presentations and a panel discussion on quantum concepts and technologies as they relate to the state of the art.

Mark Mills talked about Work in the Age of Robots. In his new book he suggests that despite artificial intelligence and automation, the job sector is likely to grow and productivity will increase. He was interviewed in Las Vegas. Filmed July 13th, 2018.

Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford University professor who runs the institution’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, talked about virtual reality and its potential impact on society. He also talked about his book on virtual reality, Experience on Demand. Recorded June 26th, 2018

Prof. Yuval Harari is a historian, philosopher and best-selling author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' and 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow'. Recorded July, 2018

You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Recorded June 19th, 2018

Elon Musk hosts Tesla Inc's Q2 2018 results and question and answer call. Elon announces a new in-house AI chip to compete with Nvidia and predicts 7,000 weekly vehicle production for Q3. Recorded August 1st, 2018

Recorded July 19th, 2018 Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Recorded July 30th, 2018 An expert panel discussed the President's proposal to create a so-called “space force” as a sixth, new branch of defense. Panelists included former Pentagon officials who discussed the current state and structure of the nation’s extraterrestrial capabilities and the advantages and disadvantages of creating a separate space-focused branch. After panelists spoke, they took questions from the audience.