magazine to recommend meaningful reads for summer. Gerdes' recommendation is Go like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans by A. J. Baime which he gave out to his students a few years ago and which all enjoyed reading. Gretchen Daily, environmental sciences, Yvonne Maldonado, pediatrics and infectious diseases, and Rodolfo Dirzo, environment sciences also have recommendations for your summer reading list.
In order for self-driving cars and other AI systems to behave responsibly, an understanding of how their actions affect others is required. Researchers at Stanford, MIT and University College London have developed a computational model of how humans judge causation in dynamic physical situations. The researchers are working to bring the counterfactual simulation model of causation into the AI arena. One goal is to develop AI systems that understand causal explanations the way humans do.
An international team of researchers from Stanford and the DOE's SLAC Laboratory developed a suite of advanced tools to break through the bottleneck of oxygen evolution reaction which today is only about 75% efficient and uses precious metal catalysts. These tools improve other energy-related processes such as finding ways to make lithium-ion batteries charge faster.
Researchers from the DOE's SLAC National Laboratory have measured over hundreds of cycles, the super-slow process of oxygen seepage from a lithium ion battery electrode that eventually saps the battery's energy storage capacity by 10-15%. Now this unprecedented detail could lead to new ways of mitigating oxygen loss and its damaging effects.
Stanford economists discuss not only the widespread and potentially irreversible damage to the environment of carbon emissions but the significant impacts on the economy. In this Q&A, Marshall Burke, associate professor, Stanford Earth and Lawrence Goulder, professor, Environmental and Resource Economics answer 14 questions on the social cost of carbon.
As more of the world's population live in cities and with the clustering of cities along coastlines, transportation network disruptions from flooding or other natural disasters can have serious socioeconomic consequences. Stanford researchers sought to identify effects flooding would have on traffic delays and safety, as road closures rerouted vehicles to adjacent streets and neighborhoods. The study highlights challenges of preparing the traffic network in the Bay Area for climate change including those that do not encounter any flooding themselves.
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence produced the AI Index Report for 2021 which is a massive document at 222 pages of data and graphs. IEEE Spectrum has selected 15 graphs that provide a snapshot of the current state of AI.
A new paper by Stanford researchers along with researchers at the University of British Columbia and New York University, uncovers a long-overlooked way in which opening international borders to trade can spark more innovation and growth. The study which uses a formal model, demonstrates that increased competition from exporting foreign firms pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.
Sharad Goel, assistant professor of management science engineering and founder of Stanford Open Policing Project and Allison Koenecke, Ph.D.
In this episode of The Future of Everything podcast, host Russ Altman talks with professor of electrical engineering, Kunle Olukotun about his current focus on new-age chips which will broaden the reach of artificial intelligence. He imagines a world filled with highly efficient, specialized chips built for specific purposes, versus the relatively inefficient but broadly applicable chips of today.
