Founder of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or d.school, David M. Kelley has been awarded the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2020 prize for educational innovation. Kelley developed a curriculum for design thinking which students have used as a framework to cultivate empathy and creativity to solve human challenges in addition to technical ones.
With seed grant support from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Yuhang Che, Ph.D. used AI to train a robot to learn from data about people's behavior in path-crossing situations. The trained robot communicated body-language type cues and explicit messages to cross a human's path. Holding a handheld haptic device with a skin stretch mechanism, the human received communication from the robot. As more autonomous systems come online it will be important to understand how people interact with these systems.
Stanford Law School Professors David Freeman Engstrom and Daniel Ho , NYU Law Professor Catherine Sharkey, and California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar served as principal advisors on a majo
A team led by Stanford professors Stefano Ermon and William Chueh has developed a machine learning based method that cuts battery testing times - a major barrier to developing longer lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles. The study was part of a larger collaboration with scientists from Stanford, MIT and the Toyota Research Institute with a goal of finding the best method to charge an EV battery in 10 minutes that maximizes the battery's overall lifetime.
Stanford's Long-Range Vision focuses attention on the intersection of ethics, society and technology with a dual goal to empower researchers to explore the societal and ethical consequences of their work and to ensure students are equipped to address the effects of technological advancement. Stanford's Ethics, Society and Technology Integrative Hub was developed to support this work by assisting students and faculty to explore the ethical dimensions of innovation.
Stanford energy scientist Sally Benson discusses the Zero Emissions Energy Solution (ZEES) effort to address the energy problem. ZEES will work with partners who are committed to reducing CO 2 and share learnings and develop computation tools to deploy worldwide.
This Q&A with Stanford Law Professor Alan O. Sykes discusses key aspects of the much anticipated "Phase One" trade agreement with China signed on Jan 15 by President Trump. The U.S. will reduce some of its tariffs increases imposed over the last two years in return for concessions in "phase one" but retains the bulk of the tariffs as "negotiating leverage" for the future.
In this Future of Everything discussion with Russ Altman, Jelena Vuckovic, professor, electrical engineering, talks about her work building computers that calculate and communicate more with photons than electrons. Photonic devices are more energy efficient and provide a wider spectrum of frequencies for various applications. Vuckovic is using AI to develop new device designs and new materials to make way for photonic devices.
Dr. Jennifer King, Director of Privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society explains the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which went into effect on Jan 1, 2020 giving residents key rights over some of their private data which is currently collected and commoditized without authorization. Waze, Facebook and Google collect location data through their apps which is sold to advertisers and political organizations
Kenneth Goodson, professor of mechanical engineering; Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science and Stacey Bent, professor of chemical engineering, seen here at left, have been elected to the 2020 class of the National Academy of Engineering. The trio was among 87 researchers elected by their peers to join the academy. They will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in October.
