Open the Pod Bay Door – Resetting the Clock on Artificial Intelligence

Panel Description:  Artificial intelligence is like a great basketball head-fake. We look towards AI while we pass the ball to machine learning. But, that reality is quickly changing. This panel taps AI and machine learning experts to level-set our current capabilities in the field and define the roadmap over the next five years.

Panelists Biographies

Dr. Lisa J. Porter has successfully led some of the world’s largest and most critical technology efforts. Porter’s career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees (a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford).  She would later lecture at MIT and then became a researcher for DARPA-related projects, eventually becoming a DARPA program manager. Dr. Porter would later lead NASA’s Aeronautics Portfolio, serve as the  Director of the Intelligence Community’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), along with leadership positions in the private sector as President at Teledyne Scientific and an EVP at In-Q-Tel.  She was then named as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (an office that is essentially the CTO for the entire Department of Defense).  She now co-leads a consultancy she formed with Michael Griffin (LogiQ).  (OODA Loop)

Lisa Porter | LinkedIn

Further OODA Loop Resources: 

• OODAcast:  Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security, and Lessons in Leadership
• Part I: DARPA, The Valley of Death and Answering the Crucial Project Questions Upfront
• Part II: DARPA, NASA, IARPA, DoD, Courage, Leadership, and Aurelius’ Meditations
• Part III: Dr. Tether and Dr. Porter on Cybersecurity

Mike Capps is a well-known technologist and CEO of Diveplane Corporation. Before co-founding Diveplane, Mike had a legendary career in the videogame industry as president of Epic Games, makers of blockbusters Fortnite and Gears of War. His tenure included a hundred game-of-the-year awards, dozens of conference keynotes, a lifetime achievement award, and a successful free-speech defense of videogames in the U.S. Supreme Court. He’s survived trending on Twitter, iPhone launch events with Steve Jobs, testifying before the Senate, and raising two toddlers. Mike began his career with post-graduate degrees at UNC, MIT, and the Naval Postgraduate School; for his research in VR, he was featured in SIGGRAPH’s historical documentary on computer graphics. He remains a regular host of multiple television series on the Discovery and Science Channels. (LinkedIn)

Michael Capps | LinkedIn

Further Resources:

• EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, et al., PETITIONERS v. ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, et al.
• Video games given full First Amendment protection
• Supreme Court says video games are protected free speech, California can’t regulate sales of violent games: a complete analysis
• “The Story of Computer Graphics” by Frank Foster

Sean Gourley is the CEO and Founder of Primer.AI.  Gourley holds a Ph.D. in physics from Oxford, where his research as a Rhodes Scholar focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war. He previously sat on the Board of Directors at Anadarko and is a TED Fellow.  Gourely has spent the last 10 years working with data, machine learning, and visualization. Attempting to understand complex global systems like conflict, financial markets, epidemics, and politics.

Twitter: @sgourley; Sean Gourley | LinkedIn

By Sean Gourley:

• Introducing the Climate Finance Tracker | One Earth
• Covid19 Primer
• Visualizing the TEDx idea network
• Common ecology quantifies human insurgency | Nature

Further Resources:

• PrimerAI

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