In this special edition of Emerging Tech Horizons, recorded live from the Emerging Technologies Conference in Washington, DC, Mark Lewis speaks with Sarah Starr, a PhD student in Systems Engineering at George Washington University and an Army Reserve officer.They discuss the challenges of testing and evaluating multi-agent AI systems, the importance of appropriate human reliance and oversight, and how human-AI teaming could evolve as AI systems become more capable and complex. Sarah also shares

Dave and Chris catch up on the shift toward practical hands-on engineering education at universities, open-source robotics, calculator forensics, mentoring young engineers, AI-assisted PCB layout tools, reverse-engineering scope RF sections, and why Chris wants to be “the Walmart greeter of electronics”

Clue: It's NOT Relativity.Have you ever wondered how bodies like planets, stars, galaxies 'curve spacetime'? What it means, exactly, to say that spacetime is 'curved'? Or why objects follow those curved contours under the effect referred to as gravity ??None of these proposed cause-and-effect consequences are explained by General Relativity. We're simply told that they happen.Strap yourself in for a journey through space and time to pin down the very first clear and coherent explanation of the

Modern physics may need to move beyond the idea of point-like particles to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity.A new non-local approach replaces isolated points with extended topological structures, potentially avoiding the infinities that arise at extreme scales. By treating spacetime as an emergent phenomenon rooted in quantum entanglement, researchers are exploring a radically different picture of reality.This episode includes AI-generated content.

What if the symbols, numbers, and patterns we've dismissed as superstition are actually part of a much older system of understanding the world?In this episode, Brandon sits down with Christian, founder of Courage Over Comfort Corp., for a conversation that spans astrology, tarot, numerology, artificial intelligence, true crime, and the psychology behind humanity's search for meaning. Christian explains how his fascination with occult philosophy led him to create unconventional projects that blend

In this epiosode, Anna and Professor Halloway discuss various approaches to managing these alignment challenges, exploring technical solutions like reward modeling and interpretability, governance frameworks for deploying AI safely, and philosophical questions about how to encode human values into systems that may and seem to be on the verge of surpassing human-level intelligence in specific domains.AI Alignment is the critical endeavor to ensure that artificial intelligence systems pursue

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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a stable Bose-Einstein condensate in an ultrathin solid-state device. Using excitons, the quantum fluid can exist at much higher temperatures than traditional condensates and can be controlled with electric voltage or magnetic fields.The breakthrough could make exotic quantum phenomena easier to study while opening new possibilities for optoelectronics, quantum simulation, and future quantum technologies.This episode includes

What if a single strange word could save you a fortune? In this episode Michael opens up a Victorian telegram code book and explores how users compressed long messages into brief coded words to outwit the per word charge of thetelegraph system. Coded language turned everyday phrases about everyday events into something that looked like nonsense to outsiders, and why that secrecy was often a side effect of economy rather than espionage, and how operators learned to live inside this clipped

Critical minerals form the foundation of modern defense and commercial technologies, from fighter aircraft and missile systems to satellites, batteries, and advanced electronics. As global supply chains remain vulnerable to disruption and critical mineral processing remains concentrated overseas, securing reliable access to these materials has become an increasingly important challenge for the U.S. industrial base.In this episode of Emerging Tech Horizons, Dr. Arun Seraphin speaks with Brett

In this episode, Prof. Hung-yi Lee, Professor at National Taiwan University, interviews Dr. Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft. Their conversation traces the evolution of speech translation from traditional cascaded pipelines to today's end-to-end, large language model (LLM)-powered systems. Jinyu Li Dr. Jinyu Li is Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, where he leads a science team advancing speech, translation, and language technologies. He is an IEEE Fello...

The XENONnT experiment has pushed the search for dark matter to unprecedented sensitivity.Using a massive liquid-xenon detector and machine learning, researchers found no definitive signal but set powerful new limits on axion-like particles and dark photons. Reaching the “neutrino fog” also marks a major milestone, helping guide the next generation of dark matter experiments.This episode includes AI-generated content.

A fire scene looks like a puzzle, but it’s a puzzle where the pieces melt, burn, and get hauled away before anyone can measure them. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I sit down with Professor Vincent Brannigan to ask a questions - does a fire investigation truly use the scientific method, or are we doing something else and calling it science? Vincent brings a rare mix of experience as a fire protection engineer, a lawyer who has seen cases up close, and a historian of science who cares deepl...

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In this episode, Nantheera Anantrasirichai (Pui), Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bristol, interviews Professor Alin Achim, Chair of Computational Imaging at the University of Bristol. Their conversation focuses on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and the role of computational imaging, signal processing, and machine learning in earth observation. Alin Achim Professor Alin Achim is Chair of Computational Imaging at the Univers...

The breakthrough wasn’t a new telescope. It was a new way to build one.For decades, space telescopes were built as exquisite, one-of-a-kind instruments. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory took a different approach: design for “good enough” instead of perfect, and rethink how a telescope is manufactured, engineered and integrated for space.The result was CODA, an easily manufacturable, lower-cost telescope that helped turn a small NASA exoplanet mission called Pandora from an idea into something