Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


Utah is hosting The Air We Breathe, a symposium on air quality on October 3, 2019: https://cleanair.utah.edu/

A few days ago, I had the opportunity and pleasure to chair a panel on AI as part of the David Eccles School of Business (DESB) Alumni forum at the University of Utah.

What motivates us to discover, to explore new frontiers? What unbroken causal chain connects a child’s boundless curiosity to the focused, but equally insatiable questioning of a trained researcher at the peak of their intellectual prowess?

What really happens when one writes a loop or invokes a procedure? Computer architecture as the big reveal

Listen to the dreamers; share their passion; imagine the future; and invest in their possibility.

Suddenly we were playing Ender’s Game, making software decisions that controlled life and death.