The 20-year-old shooter in Bulter, Pennslyvania, on July 13, 2024, personifies not only the 'lone actor' threat in an information ecosystem addled with extremist and violent rhetoric - but also the …
Opinion: Tech Innovation Is Not Just A Way Out Of This Mess, It Is The Only Way Out
Some Personal Observations On The Big Tech Trends When I write about tech it is hard to contain my enthusiasm. I catch myself writing about advancements like a zealot, with sentences full of …
Frontiers in AI and Digital Twins for Weather, Fighting Wildfires, and Climate Prediction
Last week, while the Denver Metro Area experienced climate crisis conditions with four wildfires burning throughout Colorado, inside the air-conditioned Colorado Convention Center (in two of the last …
Ministry for the Future Dispatch #7: “Scorching Hot and Bone Dry”
Ministry for the Future, DISPATCH #7 - Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, July 30, 2024: While attending SIGGRAPH 2024, the OODA Loop team awoke to local newscasts responsibly reporting - and refreshingly …
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Leadership and Innovation with Former NASA CIO and Current Executive Leader Renee Wynn
In this episode of the OODAcast, Bob Gourley interviews Renee Wynn, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of NASA. Renee Wynn’s career trajectory is a testament to the unpredictable yet rewarding …
Nvidia’s Huang and Meta’s Zuckerberg – in a Rare Joint Public Appearance – on AI and the Next Computing Platforms
SIGGRAPH 2024 featured a rare joint public appearance of NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 51st annual conference on Monday, July 29th. This fireside …
The July 2024 OODA Network Monthly Meeting: A Real-time Discussion of the Crowdstrike Global IT Outage
The July 2024 OODA Network Monthly Meeting - held on Friday, July 19, 2024 –featured a robust discussion of the recent CrowdStrike Incident and Global IT Outage. The meeting discussed CrowdStrike's …
NORAD Intercepts Russian and PRC Jet Fighters in Joint Operation over Alaska
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) "detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone …
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This Week, The Future of AI and “Accelerated Compute” is in the Mountain West of the USA
Welcome to SIGGRAPH 2024 - The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) - the premier annual conference and exhibition …
The FTC, DOJ, UK, and EU Antitrust Enforcers Weigh in on Fair Market Competition Across the Global AI Ecosystem
Pulling the thread on our 2024 "stake in the ground" analysis of government regulation (or overregulation?) of AI, and the introduction of the concept of the “decontrol” of AI, the release this month …