Dr. Sven Beiker Silicon Valley Mobility, LLD Dr. Maarten Sierhuis Silicon Valley, Nissan North America, Inc. October 17, 2019 Sven Beiker is a Lecturer in Management at the GSB, and the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Mobility, an independent consulting & advisory firm. He covers the electrification, automation, connectivity, and sharing of automobiles through the lens of new technologies and business models. This is reflected in his teaching at the GSB as well as in his professional engagements. Prior to his independent consulting work, he served as an Expert Consultant for mobility topics at McKinsey & Company for 2.5 years. …
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Casey Fiesler University of Colorado October 18, 2019 Hardly a week passes without a new technology ethics scandal-from privacy violations on social media platforms to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. This talk describes three research projects from my lab that are working towards informing …
Kostas Alexis University of Nevada, Reno October 18, 2019 This talk will present our contributions in the domain of field-hardened resilient robotic autonomy and specifically on multi-modal sensing-degraded GPS-denied localization and mapping, informative path planning, and robust control to facilitate reliable access, exploration, mapping and search of challenging environments such …
Dr. Richard Dasher Stanford University October 23, 2019 China and the United States have a complex codependent relationship in the electronics and computer industries. This relationship is currently under stress. In this talk, I begin by putting the current friction into the context of similar friction between the U.S. and …
Learn more at https://online.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-digital- transformation-certificate In order to stay nimble in today’s competitive landscape, it’s crucial that companies are able to swiftly shift their organizational design and meet changing demands. But traditional team formation and resource staffing are often slow, laborious processes. So how do you overcome this barrier? By …
Edith Harbaugh LaunchDarkly October 23, 2019 LaunchDarkly now helps over 1,000 customers — including major companies like Atlassian and BMW — release code, monitor and manage features, and make data-driven decisions about software functionality. But growth didn’t come overnight, explains CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh. She describes the multi-year slog …
Barbara Liskov MIT CSAIL October 16, 2019 Barbara Liskov was already breaking new ground in 1968, when she became one of the first American women to earn a doctorate in the emerging discipline of computer science. After receiving that PhD at Stanford, she went on to design several influential programming …
Peter Neumann SRI International October 16, 2019 Peter G. Neumann has moderated the ACM Risks Forum (risks.org) since its inception in 1985. RISKS has reported and discussed a broad spectrum of problems in computer systems, misconceptions, and human failings over the years. In an unusual format for EE380, this session …
Adrien Gaidon Toyota Research Institute October 11, 2019 Although cameras are ubiquitous, robotic platforms typically rely on active sensors like LiDAR for direct 3D perception, especially in safety critical contexts like Automated Driving. Nonetheless, recent progress in combining deep learning and geometry suggests that cameras may become a competitive source …
Stanford Seminar - Beyond "Bots and Trolls" - Understanding Disinformation as
Collaborative Work
Oct. 23, 2019
Kate Starbird University of Washington October 11, 2019 Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for democratic societies-as they destabilize the ""common ground"" that we need to stand upon to govern ourselves. In this talk, I argue that defending against …
Stanford Seminar - New Chip Technologies for AI and for Asia: the Edge is
Where the Action is!
Oct. 23, 2019
Gary Brown Intel IOTG/DCG October 10, 2019 Gary Brown is director of AI marketing at Intel’s IoT Group, and has most recently overseen the product launches of edge AI products such as Intel Movidius VPUs (Vision Processor Units) and other IoT Vision products that include AI technologies. Gary has over …
Monroe Kennedy Stanford University October 4, 2019 As advances are made in robotic hardware, the capacity of the complexity of tasks they are capable of performing also increases. One goal of modern robotics is to introduce robotic platforms that require very little augmentation of their environments to be effective and …
Jennifer Tejada PagerDuty October 9, 2019 Not long after landing at PagerDuty in 2016, Jennifer Tejada embarked on that harrowing rite of passage for CEOs of fortunate young startups: the pursuit of an IPO. Tejada raised a $90 million Series D round in late 2018, and saw PagerDuty go public …
Yu Wang Tsinghua University October 9, 2019 To apply neural networks to different applications, various customized hardware architectures are proposed in the past a few years to boost the energy efficiency of deep learning inference processing. Meanwhile, the possibilities of adopting emerging NVM (Non-Volatile Memory) technology for efficient learning systems, …
Stanford Seminar - Participating and Designing around Algorithmic
Sociotechnical Systems
Oct. 17, 2019
Motahhare Eslami Carnegie Mellon University October 4, 2019 Algorithms play a vital role in curating online information in socio-technical systems, however, they are usually housed in black-boxes that limit users' understanding of how an algorithmic decision is made. While this opacity partly stems from protecting intellectual property and preventing malicious …
Arogyaswami Paulraj Stanford University October 3, 2019 Professor Emeritus Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, is a pioneer of MIMO wireless communications, a technology break through that enables improved wireless performance. MIMO is now incorporated into all new wireless systems. Paulraj is the author of over 400 research papers, two text books …
Sarah Nahm Lever October 2, 2019 In 2012, inspired by the HR headaches they’d observed working for technology companies, Sarah Nahm and a few friends founded Lever, a talent recruitment platform aimed at transforming the hiring process with intuitive yet data-driven software. Two years later, in 2014, she was named …
Stanford Seminar - Bridging model-based and data-driven reasoning for safe
human-centered robotics
Oct. 14, 2019
Jaime Fisac Princeton University September 27, 2019 Spurred by recent advances in perception and decision-making, robotic technologies are undergoing a historic expansion from factory floors to the public space. From autonomous driving and drone delivery to robotic devices in the home and workplace, robots are bound to play an increasingly …
Stanford Seminar - Designing and deploying social computing systems inside and
outside the lab
Oct. 11, 2019
Andres Monroy-Hernandez Snap Research September 27, 2019 Social computing has permeated most aspects of our lives, from work to play. In recent years, however, social platforms have faced challenges ranging from labor issues with crowd work to misinformation on social media. These and other challenges, along with the emergence of …
Dr. Richard B. Dasher Stanford University September 26, 2019 Dr. Richard B. Dasher provides an overview of seminar series where distinguished guest speakers discuss Asian and U.S. approaches to 5G network integration, federated learning, computer chips and servers for edge AI processing, and IOT systems built around intelligent clients, such …