The New Era of Autonomous Warfare
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FiRe looks at the future of everything in these core target areas of interest, from chip designs to high-performance computing, from cloud structure to wireless and software.
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Topics in This Focus Channel
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AI in the Cloud
October 11, 2018
Amazon, Microsoft, and others are rushing to distinguish their cloud offerings by integrating the latest advances in AI, unlocking new possibilities and efficiencies for small- and medium-sized businesses the world over. Hear how the democratization of AI over the cloud will affect data use, analysis, business operations, and the economy.
- David Binger, CTO, Forced Physics
- Murray Cantor, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Aptage
- Elena Eneva, Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Accenture
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World Interrupted: The Cyber Infrastructure Threat
October 11, 2018
In March, Atlanta underwent the largest cyberattack on a US city. One-third of its software programs were thrown offline or partially disabled. Thirty percent of those were considered "mission critical," affecting core city services. The City Attorney's office lost 71 out of 77 computers and a decade of legal documents, and the police lost all dashcam footage. This year, the city has requested $9.5 million in additional IT funding in recovery costs alone. How does a city protect itself against cyber infrastructure attacks? What does this new warfare avenue mean for US security and the economy?
- Malek Ben Salem, Senior Manager, Accenture
- Marcus Sachs, CSO, Pattern Computer Inc. (SVP of Security at NERC, VP of NationalSecurity at Verizon)
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Computational Propaganda
October 13, 2017
"Computational Propaganda": Berit Anderson, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Scout; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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AI: The Chips That Drive it All
October 12, 2017
AI: "The Chips That Drive it All": Robert Patti, VP Hardware, KnuEdge; and Nick Pandher, Director of Market Development - Professional Graphics, AMD; hosted by James Reinders, Systems Architect, Coventry Computer
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What Is AI Telling Us? The Future of Work for Humans and Machines
October 12, 2017
AI I: "What Is AI Telling Us? The Future of Work for Humans and Machines": Joseph Smarr, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google; and David Brin, Physicist, Author, and Chief Visionary, Future Unlimited; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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What Is AI Telling Us? The Future of Work for Humans and Machines
October 12, 2017
Joseph Smarr, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google; and David Brin, Physicist, Author, and Chief Visionary, Future Unlimited’ Hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter and Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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The Eye-Brain Machine: Computing’s Next Model?
October 11, 2017
Bryan William Jones, Retinal Neuroscientist and Principal Investigator/Director, Marclab for Connectomics, University of Utah; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Ukraine: On the Front Lines of Russia’s Infowar Machine
October 11, 2017
"Ukraine: On the Front Lines of Russia's Infowar Machine": Bob Flores, Partner, Cognitio, and past Enterprise CTO, CIA; Phillip Lohaus, Research Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, American Enterprise Institute; and Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Reforms Council; hosted by Greg Ness, VP Marketing, Vidder
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Visualizing Visualizations: When Does the Picture Become the Analysis?
October 11, 2017
I. “Pictorial Processing in Nature I”: Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
II. “Pictorial Processing in Nature II”: Valerio Pascucci, Endowed Chair Professor of Computing and Founding Director, CEDMAV, University of Utah
Hosted by Mark Anderson
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Protecting Your Crown Jewel IP
September 29, 2016
Protecting Your Crown Jewel IP: INVNT/IP on 60 Minutes and "Operation BedBug - China's Ongoing Threat to Global Trade Secrets" With Dan McGahn, President and CEO, American Superconductor; Evan Anderson, INVNT/IP Director of Research, Strategic News Service; and Richard H.L. Marshall, CEO, X-SES Consultants LLC; hosted by Jeff Hudson, CEO, Venafi
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Digitalization, the Cloud, and the Transformation of the 21st Century Enterprise
September 28, 2016
With R. Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and VP, Microsoft; Michael Schwarz, Chief Scientist for Waze, Google; Mark Sunday, SVP and CIO, Oracle America; James Urquhart, SVP of Performance Analytics, SOASTA Inc.; Tim FitzGerald, Vice President, Digital Transformation, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas; and Edy Liongosari, Chief Research Scientist and Managing Director, Accenture hosted by Greg Ness, VP, WorldWide Marketing, CloudVelox, and SNS Ambassador for Cloud Computing
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The Irresistible Forces Behind ‘Flow Computing’
September 28, 2016
With Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 (a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership), and SNS Ambassador for Pure Science; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Visualizing Flows in Nature and Data
September 28, 2016
With Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah; Alexander Lex, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and the School of Computing at the University of Utah and Bei Wang Phillips, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah; Hosted by Mark Anderson
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Machine Intelligence in a Noisy and Dangerous World
October 9, 2015
A discussion with Daniel Goldin, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Intellisis Corp., and NASA Administrator to 3 US presidents and Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD / UCI partnership)
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Machines Learning About People: What’s Next?
October 8, 2015
A discussion with Joseph Smarr, Senior Staff Software Engineer and "Stories" Project Lead, Google and Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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The Cloud and the Enterprise: New IT Operating Models
October 8, 2015
A panel discussion with James Staten, Chief Strategist, Cloud+Enterprise, Microsoft; Saravan Rajendran, VP and GM, Cloud and Virtualization Group, Cisco; Steve Daheb, SVP, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Corp.; Hosted by Greg Ness, Vice President of Marketing, CloudVelox, and SNS Ambassador for Cloud Computing
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Building the Pattern Recognition Lab
October 7, 2015
SNS and UC San Diego create a new FiRe Lab: A Pattern Recognition Laboratory (PRL) based on brain-inspired processors and housed in Calit2's Qualcomm Institute With Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 (a UCSD / UCI partnership) and Mark Anderson Discussion: "Building the Pattern Recognition Lab": With Ken Kreutz-Delgado, Professor of Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing, and Robotics, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD; Akihiro Nakao, Professor of Applied Computer Science, University of Tokyo; and Mark Anderson
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Creating a Blended Reality: 3D Transformations
October 7, 2015
A Centerpiece Conversation: "Creating a Blended Reality: 3D Transformations": With Shane Wall, CTO, Hewlett-Packard; Hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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Look Out, Siri! Here Comes Hound (on Apple)! (The Next-Generation Internet Assistant)
October 7, 2015
A discussion with Tim Stonehocker, CTO, SoundHound; and Kamran Elahian, Co-Founder and Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, and a Founding Investor and Director of SoundHound; Hosted by Brett Horvath, Co-Founder, Scout
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The World’s First Pattern Recognition Processor: The TrueNorth Chip
October 7, 2015
A Centerpiece Conversation: "The World's First Pattern Recognition Processor: The TrueNorth Chip: With Dharmendra Modha, IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing and Mark Anderson
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CTO Design Challenge: Privacy vs. Security: Finding a Technology Solution
May 23, 2014
Conclusion: Fire CTO Design Challenge: "Privacy vs. Security: Finding a Technology Solution" The Challenge Judges: Mark Anderson, Founder and Chair, INVNT/IP; Vaclav Vincalek, President, Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.; Richard Marshall, CEO, Secure Exchange Technology Innovations; The Challenge Team: Barry Briggs, IT Chief Architect and CTO, Microsoft; Hugh Bradlow, CTO and Head of Innovation, Telstra; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2, UC San Diego/UC Irvine (HQ Qualcomm Institute), UCSD; Kevin Surace, CEO, Appvance; Simon Aspinall, Chief of Vertical Markets, Strategy, and Marketing, Virtustream; David Schoenberger, CIO/CTO, Secure Cloud Systems; Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO Imarum GmbH
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Neal Stephenson: It’s time to grow past ‘silly little apps’
May 23, 2014
"Looking Further": With Neal Stephenson; hosted by David Brin
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Creating the Next Generation of Internet Assistants
May 22, 2014
With Daniel Faulkner, VP Marketing & Strategy, Nuance Communications; hosted David Ewing Duncan, Author and Correspondent, The Atlantic
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Artificial Intelligence Helping Humans: Future Research
May 21, 2014
A discussion with Peter Lee, Corporate VP and Head of Microsoft Research, Microsoft; hosted by Ed Butler, Presenter, BBC
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Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd
May 21, 2014
Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd, President, Oracle: Hosted by Mark Anderson
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Safety on the Net: Authentication, Pseudonymity, and Resilience vs. Increasing Threats
May 23, 2013
"Safety on the Net: Authentication, Pseudonymity, and Resilience vs. Increasing Threats": A Centerpiece Conversation with Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist, Google; hosted by Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 and Qualcomm Institute, UCSD and Irvine
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Taking Voice Digitization Beyond Words
May 23, 2013
"Taking Voice Digitization Beyond Words": A conversation with Peter Mahoney, CMO, Nuance Communications; Cary Bran, Senior Director, Innovation and New Ventures, Plantronics; and Kirsten Bay, President and CEO, Attensity Group; hosted by Stephen Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners
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The Chips to Power the Next Digital Planet
May 23, 2013
Centerpiece Conversation: "The Chips to Power the Next Digital Planet" - With Tom Lantzsch, Executive Vice President of Strategy, ARM Inc.; hosted by Robert F. Anderson, Director, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Centerpiece Conversation: Mark Hurd, President, Oracle
May 22, 2013
Centerpiece Conversation: Mark Hurd, President, Oracle; hosted by Mark Anderson.
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In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy
May 22, 2013
"In the Wake of the Mandiant Report: China IP Theft and the World Economy": A conversation with Richard Marshall, CEO, X-SES; and Mark Anderson, Founder and Chair, INVNT/IP; hosted by Ed Butler, Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC
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“Integrating Robots into Our Homes, Healthcare, and Beyond”
May 24, 2012
A conversation with Colin Angle, CEO and Co-Founder, iRobot; hosted by Patrick Lane, Technology Correspondent, The Economist
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“The Future Integration of Critical Technologies into the Connected Car”
May 24, 2012
A Conversation with Ben Smith, Director of Program Management, Windows Embedded, Microsoft; Gary Clayton, Chief Creative Officer, Nuance Communications; and Sheryl Connelly, Global Trends and Futuring Manager, Ford Motor; hosted by Matthias Hohensee, Bureau Chief Silicon Valley and Columnist, WirtschaftsWoche
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“What Every CIO Should Know About Cloud Computing”
May 24, 2012
With James Barrese, CTO, PayPal; Winston Damarillo, Co-Founder and CEO, Morphlabs; David Nelson, Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, Boeing; Don Pickering, CEO, OneOcean; and Paul Strong, CTO, Global Field & Customer Initiatives, VMware; hosted by Greg Ness, Chief Marketing Officer, Vantage Data Centers
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“The Future of Information Security”
May 23, 2012
A conversation with Gus Hunt, CTO, Central Intelligence Agency; hosted by Robert Anderson, Director, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Illinois Institute of Technology
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“The Future of Mobile Computing: Integrated Features and Services Five Years from Now”
May 23, 2012
With Henry Tirri, EVP and CTO, Nokia; and James Barrese, CTO, PayPal; hosted by Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
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“The Future of Wireless”
May 23, 2012
A Centerpiece Conversation with Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder, past CEO, and Board Member; and Paul Jacobs, Chair and CEO, Qualcomm; hosted by Mark Anderson
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The New Frontier: Simplify IT
May 23, 2012
A Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd, President, Oracle; hosted by Mark Anderson
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“Embedded Vision: Computers Seeing You”
May 25, 2011
A Conversation with Bruce Kleinman, Corporate VP, Platform Marketing, Xilinx; Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft; and Ian Weightman, President, IMS Research; hosted by Scott Gardner, General Manager and EIC, Embedded Vision Alliance
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“IPTV and the World of Streaming 4G Devices”
May 25, 2011
With David Garrison, CEO, iBAHN; and Philip Nelson, SVP Strategic Development, NewTek; hosted by Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3
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“The Future of Car Computing”
May 25, 2011
A conversation with Paul Mascarenas, CTO, Ford Motor Co.; hosted by Mark Anderson
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“The Future of Chipped Intelligence”
May 25, 2011
A conversation with Justin Rattner, CTO and Senior Fellow; and VP & Director, Intel Labs, Intel Corp; hosted by Mark Anderson
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Keynote Conversation: Paul Ricci, Chair and CEO, Nuance Corp.
May 25, 2011
hosted by Russ Daggatt, General Partner, Denny Hill Capital
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“The Future of High-Performance Computing”
November 11, 2010
A Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd, President, Oracle
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“Why the Memristor Will Change the Future of Electronics”
November 11, 2010
With Janice Nickel, Senior Scientist, HP Labs
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“Fixing the Cloud: Business Models and Infrastructure”
November 11, 2010
A discussion with with Brian Bershad, Director of Research and Development, Google; Chris Drumgoole, Senior Vice President, Terremark; Doug Gourlay, VP Marketing, Arista Networks; Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft; Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona Ventures; and Javier Soltero, CTO, VMware; hosted by Gregory Ness
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“The Complex World of Emerging Platforms, from Cloud to Phone”
May 12, 2010
A Centerpiece Conversation with Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect and CTO, Microsoft; hosted by Mark Anderson
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“The Future of Printing and Imaging”
May 23, 2007
A conversation with Vyomesh Joshi, EVP, Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard; hosted by Mark Anderson
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“Centerpiece Conversation with Michael Dell”
May 15, 2006
A Centerpiece Conversation with Michael Dell, Chairman, Dell Inc.; hosted by Mark Anderson
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“Using Supercomputers and Supervisualization Techniques”
May 15, 2006
A conversation with Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Harry E. Gruber Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego; hosted by John K. Thompson, CEO, Marketing Sciences
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Leaders in This Focus Channel
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Simon Aspinall
President, International Software Business, Virtustream
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Per-Kristian (Kris) Halvorsen
Chief Innovation Officer and SVP, Intuit
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Chris Drumgoole
Senior Vice President, Terremark
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Ray Ozzie
Chief Software Architect and CTO, Microsoft
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Brad Holtz
Founding Member and Chief Nexus Officer, Pattern Computer Inc.
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Marc Jaffrey
Senior Software Engineer, Coventry Computer
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Ed Lantz
Founder and CTO, Vortex Immersion Media
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Murray Cantor
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Aptage; and Senior Technical Fellow, Pattern Computer Inc.
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Barry Briggs
Enterprise Architect, Microsoft
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Jonathan Ewert
President, TransforMedia
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Gonzalo Martinez
Director of Strategic Research, Office of the CTO, Autodesk Inc.
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Larry Smarr
Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2; a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership)
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Bob Patti
VP Hardware, KnuEdge
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Jay Giraud
Founder and CEO, Mojio
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Chetan Sharma
President, Chetan Sharma Consulting
