In his new book, Architects of Intelligence?, Martin Ford interviewed 23 AI experts who have shaped the AI revolution to understand the real imminent AI-threats (politics, security, privacy and weaponization) and how these problems affect society. The experts interviewed from Stanford include Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller.
Scientists in senior author Yi Cui's lab at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. The team's mechanism structurally mimics the alveoli in the lungs and carries out two different processes to improve the reactions that drive sustainable technologies such as fuel cells and metal-air batteries.
The SUPERLab (Stanford University Power Electronics Research Lab) explores outside-the-box applications of high frequency power converters.
Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Global Climate & Energy Project funded 17 new, early-stage research projects this fall. The competitively awarded seed grants this year include seven faculty members who are applying their expertise to energy research for the first time.
A Stanford-led initiative, the Global Carbon Project, recently reported new projections that global fossil fuel emissions are on track to rise for the second year in a row. In the U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase by 2.5% after decades of declines. “Global energy demand is outpacing powerful growth in renewables and energy efficiency,” said Rob Jackson, professor of Earth system science.
A Stanford-led team has developed a way to not only manage heat produced by electronic devices but help route it away from delicate components. The thermal transistor - a nanoscale switch uses a thin layer of molybdenum disulfide just 20 nanometers thick bathed in a liquid of lithium ions.
Today's computers typically use static random-access memory (SRAM) which is fast and compact but power-hungry. Computers running AI and machine learning applications require small, fast, energy-efficient memory chips. Stanford researchers have developed an alternate technology called SOT-MRAM, short for spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory.
Stanford researchers have developed a new system for collecting usage reports that emphasizes data privacy. The system, called Prio, uses a technique known as "secret sharing" which breaks up and obscures individual information only allowing for the collection of aggregate reports
Researchers from Stanford medical school are designing digital interventions to enable well-being for the places we frequent the most - the office, car and home. One of the projects to transform the often stressful commute to a "mindful commute," aims to passively sense stress and recommend personalized digital de-stressors turning the commute into a cool-down or de-stress period.
Raj Kapoor, Lyft's Chief Strategy Officer and John Viera, Ford's Global Director of Sustainability & Vehicle Environmental Matters in a conversation led by Pedram Mokrian, Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering examining how new technologies, analytics and new business models can disrupt large incumbent markets such as energy, manufacturing, logistics, education and commerce. NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center from 4:30 pm - 5:20 pm.
