Episodes
Friday Nov 04, 2022
AI Chronicles: Explainability Vs. Complexity
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
AI once again takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Johanna Pingel from MathWorks and I discuss the differences between complexity vs. explainability in artificial intelligence, how you will know if explainability is right for your application and how explainability will impact the future of AI. Also this week, I examine how AI could predict extreme wildfire danger.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
A topic that is near and dear to my heart takes center stage in this week's podcast: sustainability. Iain Galloway (NXP) and Richard Fix (Bosch Sensortec) join me to discuss how you can help solve real-world societal challenges with the NXP HoverGames. We also discuss the variety of components and technologies provided to contestants of this unique design contest and why sustainable food ecosystems is the theme of this year’s HoverGames. Also this week, keeping with our sustainability theme, I how AI is helping save Norway's endangered Atlantic salmon.
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
How about some high performance DSPs to spice up your Friday? Maybe with a sprinkling of robots? In this week’s podcast, Dave Bell from Cadence Design Systems joins me to chat about the trends driving the need for high-performance DSPs, the benefits that Tensilica ConnX 110 and 120 DSPs can bring to your next design and why ISA compatibility is crucial in this arena. Also this week, I check out some new drones developed by a multi-national team of researchers that could change the future of building construction.
Friday Jul 29, 2022
U Can Touch This! BeBop Sensors Brings a Sense of Touch to Robots and More!
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
- Isaac Asimov
Robotic innovation and the future of human-machine interfaces take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Keith McMillen (CEO, Founder - BeBop Sensors) joins me to chat about BeBop’s Intelligent Sensing Technologies which can transform any surface into a touch surface that naturally blends into its environment. We dig into the details of BeBop’s RoboSkin that can provide robots with the sense of touch and discuss why Keith believes that intelligent interfaces will change how we interact with machines in the future. Also this week, I take a closer look at a new robotic learning method called WHIRL developed by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that could make teaching robots easier than ever before.
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Faster AI! Go! Go!
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. - Amelia Earhart
In this week’s podcast, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor Naira Hovakimyan joins me to discuss how the development of the new Center for Autonomous Vehicles in Air Transportation Engineering (AVIATE) at UIUC will help charter a course for flying taxis! We investigate Hovakimyan’s L1 adaptive flight control system and the role it will play in the development of this kind of autonomous aircraft. We also chat about the different technologies developed by team members at UIUC in association with this project and how various universities and companies including Georgia Tech, MIT, Boeing, Kitty Hawk and Google Wing are coming together to make flying taxis a reality. Keeping with our high flying theme this week, I also check out the details of a new air utility vehicle called the Speeder 2 unveiled by Mayman Aerospace at the recent Draper Venture Network CEO Summit in California.
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Motors big and small take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Marcello Williams Silva (Infineon) joins us to discuss trends in automotive designs. We investigate how consolidation is changing the automotive landscape, the role that parallel processing units will play in future automotive and eMobility designs, and the critical design elements we should consider when it comes to our automotive designs. Keeping with our motorized theme this week, I also check out the first DNA-based motors that combine computational power with the ability to burn fuel and move in an intentional direction.
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Artificial intelligence is the name of the game in this week’s podcast. My guest is Yasser Kahn - Founder and CEO of MicroAI. Yasser and I chat about what sets MicroAI apart from other edge AI providers, the benefits of proactive maintenance at the edge versus the cloud, and how MicroAI is advancing the next generation of smart machines. Also this week, I take a closer look at how DeepMind's new deep neural network – called Ithaca – is unlocking the secrets of ancient texts.
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
What if your computer could receive directions directly from your thoughts? No keyboard or mouse required? That is exactly what we talk about in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Evan Coopersmith (EVP of Data Science at AE Studio) joins me to discuss the newest advancements in brain computer interface technology. Evan and I chat about the details of the recent Neural Latents Benchmark Challenge, how AE Studio is leveraging their expertise in machine learning to encourage innovation in BCI technology, and why neuroethical principles that increase human agency are vital to the future of brain computer interface technology.
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Robots big and small take center stage in this week's Fish Fry podcast! Florian Pestoni (CEO - InOrbit) joins me to discuss the future of AI and robotics in the workforce. Florian and I also chat about the details of InOrbit’s cloud-based robot management platform and why Florian believes that the next step in digital transformation will be software-defined X. Also this week, I investigate new micro-bots developed by a team of researchers from Japan's Okayama University and Linköping University in Sweden that can self-heal bone and may make the treatment of compound bone fractures much easier in the future.