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Plus AI Is Already EverywhereLike this? Get AIDAILY, delivered to your inbox, 3x a week. Subscribe to our newsletter at https://aidaily.usAI's 'Her' Moment: Revisiting the Film in 2025Spike Jonze's Her (2013) hits different in 2025. Back then, the idea of falling for your OS felt like sci-fi. Now, with AI companions and voice assistants becoming increasingly human-like, the film feels eerily prescient. As AI blurs the lines between tool and partner, Her serves as a poignant reflection on our evolving relationship with technology. AI Is Already EverywhereAt TED 2025 in Vancouver, AI's influence stretched beyond tech, touching art, parenting, and poetry. Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy pondered AI's role in child-rearing, while poet Salome Agbaroji critiqued systems of power, reminding AI it's not the first "artificial system" we've labeled intelligent. The consensus? AI's impact is vast and multifaceted.AI-Generated Résumés: Red Flags or Smart Moves?AI-crafted résumés are flooding recruiters' inboxes, sparking debates on authenticity. While some hiring managers view them as impersonal, others see them as a savvy use of technology. The key? Personalize and proofread. An AI-assisted résumé can showcase efficiency, but only if it reflects genuine experience and attention to detail. AI Will Take Your Job — CEOs Say Deal with ItCEOs are blunt: AI isn't just coming for your job—it's already here. Shopify's Tobi Lütke mandates employees prove tasks can't be done by AI before hiring. Fiverr's Micha Kauffman warns even his role isn't safe. The message? Upskill or risk obsolescence. Adaptability and AI fluency are the new workplace currencies.Why CEOs Should Think Twice Before Using AI to Write MessagesAI-generated messages might save time, but they can come off as cold and generic—especially when leaders need to show empathy. Harvard Business Review warns that while AI is fine for formal stuff like shareholder updates, it flops at human connection. Bottom line: if you're using AI to write to your team, be transparent and keep it real.Stanford's AI Report: Big Gains, Bigger QuestionsStanford's latest AI Index report reveals that while AI models are smashing benchmarks, the real-world benefits remain elusive. The U.S. leads in model development, but China is catching up fast. Public sentiment is mixed: 60% think AI will change their jobs, but only 36% fear replacement. Meanwhile, emissions from AI training are soaring, raising sustainability concerns. AI Is Powering Up Nuclear Reactors for the Data Center EraAs AI-driven data centers demand more electricity, nuclear power is making a comeback. Argonne National Lab's PRO-AID tool uses generative AI to monitor reactor conditions and assist operators. While legacy plants face upgrade challenges, startups like TerraPower and Oklo are integrating AI from the ground up to design next-gen reactors.

We discuss the Aurora supercomputer, Exascale, AI, reliability at scale, technology adoption agility, datacenter power and cooling, cloud computing, quantum computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/089@HPCpodcast_Rick-Stevens_Mike-Papka_ANL-update_20240919.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-89: Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Lab appeared first on OrionX.net.

 About This EpisodeTune in to hear Janet Foutty's bold journey as an accomplished senior business leader, technologist, and speaker. Her three-decade tenure at Deloitte has been a masterclass in professional courage and personal growth. Janet's story underscores the importance of being open to new opportunities and trusting your instincts. These choices can often lead to accelerated personal development and career growth, defying the traditional paths laid out before us. Janet also discusses the bestselling book she co-authored, Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership, which emphasizes that it's not just about reaching leadership positions but flourishing in them with the support of a community and continuous personal growth. Throughout the episode, Janet's reflections offer invaluable lessons for anyone at a career crossroads or seeking to inspire their leadership journey, highlighting the importance of aligning our professional and personal lives. Janet's bold choices, and the subsequent growth they fueled, remind us that the paths we choose in our careers can be as unique and transformative as we dare them to be. About Janet FouttyJanet Foutty is an accomplished senior business leader, technologist, author, and frequent public speaker. She spent over 30 years at Deloitte during which she led numerous practices through change and growth including technology and government and culminated her Deloitte career by serving as CEO of Deloitte Consulting, and US Board Chair of Deloitte respectively. Janet is focused on applying her leadership experience and passionate advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion; women in leadership; and the need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education through investing her time across non-profit, public policy, corporate America and academia. She currently serves as chair of Bright Pink, a nonprofit dedicated to young women's health; member of the National Semiconductor Technology Center Selection Committee; Argonne National Lab; and board member of The Chicago Network. She also serves on NYU Stern's Tech advisory council and Indiana University Kelley School of Business Dean's Council and is currently Kelley School's Poling Chair for the 2023-2024 academic year. Janet has been published in top-tier business publications including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. And, recognized for her leadership by Fortune, Crain's, Chicago Magazine, AICPA, City Year Chicago, and New York Moves Magazine. She is the co-author of a bestselling book, Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership. Janet holds a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration in finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She is an inductee of the Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows. Additional ResourcesWebsite: JanetFoutty.com Instagram: @JanetFouttyLinkedIn: @JanetFoutty 

- Argonne National Lab's Nexus Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) - Delays in Intel's Fab in Ohio, CHIPS Act - Mitchel Institute report on Quantum Information Science and Technologies - Controlling Emergent AI, High Calory Data [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HPCNB_20240205.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20240205 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Professor Peter Littlewood is the chair of the University of Chicago's Department of Physics. He was formerly the Associate Lab Director and then Lab Director at Argonne National Lab. Professor Littlewood also serves on the advisory boards of several institutes, including the Faraday Institution, the Simons Foundation, the Paul Scherer Institute, the Carnegie Institute for Science, and the Max Planck Institutes at Halle and Hamburg. In this episode, he shares his journey to creating and teaching as a scholar and his aspirations for the future.

As SC23 approaches, we were fortunate to catch up with Rick Stevens and Mike Papka of Argonne National Lab for a wide ranging discussion.  In addition to an update on the Aurora supercomputer and TOP500, we also discuss the need and challenged of building a national exascale capability, developing teams and bench strength, the risks and opportunities of AI for science and society, the trend towards integrated research infrastructure (IRI), and what's next for the exascale initiative. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/075@HPCpodcast_Rick-Stevens_Mike-Papka_ANL_20231110.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-75: Rick Stevens, Mike Papka – Argonne National Lab (ANL) appeared first on OrionX.net.

Battery technology is already transforming our transportation infrastructure. What are the implications and challenges of this transformation? Why are we so resource limited in this area? I discuss with my guest Linda Gaines (Environmental Scientist/Systems Analyst in Argonne National Laboratory's Energy Systems and Infrastructure Analysis) basics of the battery supply chain and how we are building these new technologies into our society. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-lanagan/support

Having a hard time telling your story? Do you know that a better story can lead to higher conversions? Listen to Narratize AI Founder Katie Trauth Taylor, PhD who speaks about founding her company. I lead the design and implementation of evidence-based methods that empower leaders, managers, and innovators to leverage the power of story to accelerate innovation. "I've led strategic innovation narratives and served as a senior content strategist within fast-growth tech startups and the Fortune 500, including Boeing, NASA, Hershey, Sunoco, AAA, IFF, Dupont, Edgewell, Cincinnati Children's, Argonne National Lab, Crossover Health, Parsley Health, Omada, Physera, US Dept of Veterans Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World Food Forum, and the United Nations. As CEO and cofounder of Narratize AI, I lead and grow a powerhouse team of experts in generative AI and professional content analysis to design the market-leading AI-powered storytelling platform for busy experts. Narratize is where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. With the power of AI, Narratize users organize their best ideas, generate impactful narratives, and adapt content into different formats to gain visibility, understanding and buy-in.I am also founder and CEO of Untold Content, where for the last decade, I've led an expert team to grow and scale thought-leading research, insights, and methodologies for leveraging the power of story within innovation processes. Scientific, technical and medical innovators trust Untold to achieve message-market fit for disruptive products and technologies through clear, evidence-based storytelling that increases market adoption and sparks clear decision-making among internal stakeholders. Untold provides content services, innovation storytelling training experiences, and culture-shifting guidebooks to innovative, ambitious organizations in health, tech, and science.Proud BoilerMaker with a PhD in professional and scientific writing from Purdue University." UntoldContent.comkatie@untoldcontent.com 859-866-1916 -------------- If you are a women physician and looking to network with like-minded physicians join our group https://fpestrong.com Host Sharon T McLaughlin MD FACS www.SharonMcLaughlinMD.com #AI #storytelling

Having a hard time telling your story? Do you know that a better story can lead to higher conversions? Listen to Narratize AI Founder Katie Trauth Taylor, PhD who speaks about founding her company. I lead the design and implementation of evidence-based methods that empower leaders, managers, and innovators to leverage the power of story to accelerate innovation. "I've led strategic innovation narratives and served as a senior content strategist within fast-growth tech startups and the Fortune 500, including Boeing, NASA, Hershey, Sunoco, AAA, IFF, Dupont, Edgewell, Cincinnati Children's, Argonne National Lab, Crossover Health, Parsley Health, Omada, Physera, US Dept of Veterans Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World Food Forum, and the United Nations. As CEO and cofounder of Narratize AI, I lead and grow a powerhouse team of experts in generative AI and professional content analysis to design the market-leading AI-powered storytelling platform for busy experts. Narratize is where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. With the power of AI, Narratize users organize their best ideas, generate impactful narratives, and adapt content into different formats to gain visibility, understanding and buy-in.I am also founder and CEO of Untold Content, where for the last decade, I've led an expert team to grow and scale thought-leading research, insights, and methodologies for leveraging the power of story within innovation processes. Scientific, technical and medical innovators trust Untold to achieve message-market fit for disruptive products and technologies through clear, evidence-based storytelling that increases market adoption and sparks clear decision-making among internal stakeholders. Untold provides content services, innovation storytelling training experiences, and culture-shifting guidebooks to innovative, ambitious organizations in health, tech, and science.Proud BoilerMaker with a PhD in professional and scientific writing from Purdue University." UntoldContent.comkatie@untoldcontent.com 859-866-1916 -------------- If you are a women physician and looking to network with like-minded physicians join our group https://fpestrong.com Host Sharon T McLaughlin MD FACS www.SharonMcLaughlinMD.com #AI #storytelling

In today's episode, we interview Dr. Kalin Kiesling. She is a nuclear engineer at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab where she develops the software that other engineers use to design and analyze new nuclear reactor concepts. She earned her PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, from which she also holds a bachelors and masters in nuclear engineering. We learn about her background and career path, and how she choose to get all her degrees at the same university. We also learn about her research and the methods she used during her PhD and the programming she carries out in her job, as well as about the timeline of the PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the various milestones in the program. We also learn about how she landed her position at Argonne, and how the pandemic influenced her life values and career aspirations.Outside of her technical area in nuclear engineering, Kalin is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the nuclear industry, broader STEM field, and academia in general. At Argonne National Lab she is on a DEI council where she advocates for her colleagues and works with leadership to make impactful changes. We learn about the state of DEI in the nuclear industry and the changes occurring in the field, as well as Kalin's best advice on how to foster DEI in STEM and academia.Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family (husband and almost 4 year old daughter) and getting lost in one of her many hobbies (usually some form of crafting or gardening). As an academic parent of a baby, the pandemic certainly hit Kalin's research hard. We learn about Kalin's journey as an academic parent, the support provided by her university and advisor, and how her parenting journey coincided with the pandemic.We round off the episode learning about Kalin's best advice for PhD students, how she sets boundaries around work, reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 and what a day in the life looks like for her.ReferencesKalin on Twitter  Kalin on  LinkedIn 

The U.S. national laboratory system serves a unique role in the country's research and development landscape. Chris Heckle, director of the new Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center at Argonne National Lab, talks about how the national labs contribute to the innovation ecosystem, overviews the research that takes place at Argonne specifically, and describes how the new Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center aims to improve and expand the labs' support for industry. View the transcript for this episode here.About the guestChris Heckle is director of the Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center at Argonne National Lab. She came to Argonne from Corning Inc., where she served as research director for inorganic materials research and Asia research labs. The Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center is a new initiative at Argonne that aims to accelerate the scale-up of advanced materials and process technologies. Learn more about working with the Center at this link.About ACerSFounded in 1898, The American Ceramic Society is the leading professional membership organization for scientists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, plant personnel, educators, and students working with ceramics and related materials.

Ellie Price is a corporate credit analyst at S&P Global Ratings, and prior was an Associate Director in public finance at Fitch Ratings. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Iris Light Technologies, a silicon photonics startup company spun out of Argonne National Lab.   While at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, Price worked as an investment banking summer associate at Credit Suisse, and apprenticed as a venture capital associate.    Prior to grad school, Price directed The Locus Coalition of 14 NGOs, convening international development funders, policymakers, and practitioners to promote the design and evaluation of evidence-based, locally owned, and integrated global development programs. Price represented Locus members' best practices as a speaker and moderator on pals at the UN, think tanks and other forums, and she oversaw all operations and activities of the Coalition and its Research and Learning Working Groups. Price also served as co-chair of the Society for International Development Young Professionals Network Washington DC Chapter. Prior to Locus, Price was a Crisis Response Program Officer at FHI 360, where she supported the launch of a humanitarian response unit and rapid response capabilities with the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Borno State, Nigeria. She also served as an Urban Leaders Fellow in Denver, Colorado.   Price holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a bachelor's degree in international development studies from Calvin College and studied East African politics and religion at Uganda Christian University. During her undergraduate studies, Price performed research, fundraising strategy, and project design for nonprofits working with immigrant populations in Michigan. As a consultant for a healthcare management firm, she designed an impact evaluation for its international nonprofit arm, adapting training materials for healthcare managers in Dubai and sub-Saharan Africa.    Ellie  is on on twitter.   The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here.    Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.   Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

00:00 - Good Morning 00:07 - Where next 00:25 - Emails 02:17 - Sponsor.8MinDaf.com 03:36 - Amud Aleph 22:02 - Amud Beis 28:39 - Have a Wonderful Day -- Today's shiur is sponsored Maaser & לע""נ חיה בּת יוסף By Anon Ymous & לע״נ זכריה בן משה & Shprintzy and Alan Gross, לע"נ The yahrzeits of our Father's, שלמה זלמן בן יצחק אייזיק ז"ל, Sol Birnbaum ע"ה, נפטר ח' שבט ​ בנימין אייזיק בן צבי הירש הכהן ז"ל, Ben Gross ע"ה, נפטר ט"ז שבט & Vladislav Zakharov: For a successful research trip to Argonne National Lab & Koby & Perry Mozes: לזכר נשמת ר׳ שלום בן יעקב יהודה ז׳ל, Shalom Mozes of LA who's yartzeit is today​ ​& In honor of the A B C D E F G H I J K elemeno P group​​ ​--- Turning of the daf לכ׳ ישיבת נועם התורה י-ם,והרב דוד אמון שליטא who always encourages us to finish ש״ס & להצלחה for the magid shiur, the members of the HBA Group and their families. אמן

00:00 - Good Morning 00:11 - Emails 05:58 - Sponsor.8MinDaf.com 08:08 - Amud Aleph 24:45 - Amud Beis 45:57 - Have a Wonderful Day -- Today's shiur is sponsored Maaser & לע""נ חיה בּת יוסף By Anon Ymous & לע״נ זכריה בן משה & Shprintzy and Alan Gross, לע"נ The yahrzeits of our Father's, שלמה זלמן בן יצחק אייזיק ז"ל, Sol Birnbaum ע"ה, נפטר ח' שבט ​ בנימין אייזיק בן צבי הירש הכהן ז"ל, Ben Gross ע"ה, נפטר ט"ז שבט & Vladislav Zakharov: For a successful research trip to Argonne National Lab & Jeff Rosner: Honor of Bar Mitzvah of Jake Hirsch (son of Chaim and Samantha Hirsch) & Shneur Twersky: לזכות החתן והכלה, דוד אסטער וחי׳ מושקא טווערסקי, שיהי׳ בשעה טובה ומוצלחת, !מזל טוב & Complete Refuah Sheleyma for Chana bat Sima Faiga & Shalitzky and Yampel Families: י שבט today's Yarzeit ​ שרה בת ר' ישעי'ה יצחק ע"ה Yellin​ אברהם יהושע בן ר נחום ז"ל ​ חי'ה רייזל בת ר' אליהו ע"ה Yampel​ יהי זכרו ברוך​ ​--- Turning of the daf לכ׳ ישיבת נועם התורה י-ם,והרב דוד אמון שליטא who always encourages us to finish ש״ס & להצלחה for the magid shiur, the members of the HBA Group and their families. אמן

00:00 - Good Morning 09:34 - Sponsor.8MinDaf.com 11:31 - Amud Beis 16:56 - Amud Aleph 41:55 - Amud Beis 1:00:20 - Have a Wonderful Shabbos -- Today's shiur is sponsored Maaser & לע""נ חיה בּת יוסף By Anon Ymous & לע״נ זכריה בן משה & Shprintzy and Alan Gross, לע"נ The yahrzeits of our Father's, שלמה זלמן בן יצחק אייזיק ז"ל, Sol Birnbaum ע"ה, נפטר ח' שבט ​ בנימין אייזיק בן צבי הירש הכהן ז"ל, Ben Gross ע"ה, נפטר ט"ז שבט & Vladislav Zakharov: For a successful research trip to Argonne National Lab & In Honor of The Entire Bukharian Community Especially Sharei Eliyahu! Keep Dafing! & In honor of Joseph Abramchik!!! from his loving family & Sruli Furman - RL245: L'iluy Nishmas of my Dad, Harav Moshe Avrohom ben Asher Zelig & Should b זוכה2נחת דק tremendous success in all my Endeavors and always b able 2give​ ​--- Turning of the daf לכ׳ ישיבת נועם התורה י-ם,והרב דוד אמון שליטא who always encourages us to finish ש״ס & להצלחה for the magid shiur, the members of the HBA Group and their families. אמן

Tyler is joined by Dr. Jeffrey Elam from Argonne National Lab in Chicago. Jeff is the head of the Atomic Layer Deposition research program at Argonne and has received numerous awards, accolades and patents for his work, the ALD Innovator Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at Argonne as examples. In this episode, Tyler and Jeff discuss his time as a post doc in the Steven George lab where he built the first ALD reactors, how he began the ALD group at Argonne, and some of his award-winning work on fabricating large-area microchannel plates.    02:10 Early ALD in the George Group  14:55 Bringing ALD to Argonne  29:44 Microchannel Plates  44:51 Outlook & Final Remarks    #ALDep #nanotechnology 

Welcome to an episode with an artist, researcher, author, and educator at Northwestern University, Julio Mario Ottino. Get Julio's book here: https://amzn.to/3spt2Nn Individuals and organizations face complex problems and challenges today that demand a new way of thinking to grasp underlying solutions and opportunities. In this episode, Julio shares the beauty of the coexistence of art, science, and technology – rather than being separate disciplines – to navigate the complex world. Julio was born in Argentina and grew up with twin interests in physical sciences and visual arts, finding beauty in math and art, and seeing creativity as being one thing, rather than something that lives in compartments. Art provided a cathartic means of expression while he grew up in turbulent times. He managed to create a solo art exhibit while drafted as an officer in the Argentinian Navy. When he moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate, his research achievements followed.   Most of the early attention Ottino received stemmed from pioneering work in chaos theory and a combination of scientific insight and visualization. His research work has been featured on the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and other publications. He has supervised more than 65 Ph.D. theses, written over 250 papers and two books, and has given invited presentations at over 200 universities in the United States and around the world, as well as at organizations such as Accenture, Boeing, Google, 3M, and Unilever.  An academic entrepreneur, Ottino was the founding co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and educational and research initiatives in design, entrepreneurship, and energy and sustainability. As dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, he founded educational and research partnerships with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Medill School of Journalism, Feinberg School of Medicine, School of Communication, and School of Education and Social Policy, as well as with external partners ranging from the Art Institute of Chicago to Argonne National Lab. In 2008, he was selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era.” In 2017, Ottino was awarded the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education from the National Academy of Engineering for the concept of whole-brain engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Get Julio's book here:  The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World–The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science. Julio Mario Ottino. https://amzn.to/3spt2Nn Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Intel, HPE, and Argonne National Lab are collaborating closely to deliver Aurora. Built on Intel's architecture, Aurora will be Argonne's first Exascale, high performance computing system. Its performance is expected to exceed exaflops, which is 2 billion billion calculations per second. It's enormous scale and performance levels will accelerate research in science and engineering fields at a scale that is not possible today. ACLF – Aurora: alcf.anl.gov/aurora DOE Leadership Project: doeleadershipcomputing.org Intel oneAPI: oneapi.intel.com Intel oneAPI Toolkits: intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/toolkits.html Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit: intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/hpc-toolkit.html Exascale Computing Project website: exascaleproject.org/ Aurora Early Science Program: alcf.anl.gov/science/early-science-program ALCF Aurora: alcf.anl.gov/aurora Preparing for science in the Exascale article: alcf.anl.gov/aurora Argonne National Lab's Aurora Exascale System: intel.com/content/www/us/en/customer-spotlight/stories/argonne-aurora-customer-story.html Intel and Argonne Developers Carve Path Toward?Exascale: intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/developers-carve-path-toward-exascale.html Introducing the Aurora Supercomputer – Powered by Intel: intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/supercomputing/aurora-video.html Guests: Scott Parker, Team Lead, Performance Engineering at ALCF Scott Parker – sparker@alcf.anl.gov Michael D'mello, Program Manager, Intel Michael D'mello – michael.dmello@intel.com

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 263, an episode with an artist, researcher, author, and educator at Northwestern University, Julio Mario Ottino. Get Julio's book here: https://amzn.to/3b4390g   Individuals and organizations face complex problems and challenges today that demand a new way of thinking to grasp underlying solutions and opportunities. In this episode, Julio shares the beauty of the coexistence of art, science, and technology – rather than being separate disciplines – to navigate the complex world.   Julio was born in Argentina and grew up with twin interests in physical sciences and visual arts, finding beauty in math and art, and seeing creativity as being one thing, rather than something that lives in compartments. Art provided a cathartic means of expression while he grew up in turbulent times. He managed to create a solo art exhibit while drafted as an officer in the Argentinian Navy. When he moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate, his research achievements followed.     Most of the early attention Ottino received stemmed from pioneering work in chaos theory and a combination of scientific insight and visualization. His research work has been featured on the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and other publications. He has supervised more than 65 Ph.D. theses, written over 250 papers and two books, and has given invited presentations at over 200 universities in the United States and around the world, as well as at organizations such as Accenture, Boeing, Google, 3M, and Unilever.    An academic entrepreneur, Ottino was the founding co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and educational and research initiatives in design, entrepreneurship, and energy and sustainability. As dean of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, he founded educational and research partnerships with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Medill School of Journalism, Feinberg School of Medicine, School of Communication, and School of Education and Social Policy, as well as with external partners ranging from the Art Institute of Chicago to Argonne National Lab. In 2008, he was selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era.” In 2017, Ottino was awarded the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education from the National Academy of Engineering for the concept of whole-brain engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.   Get Julio's book here:  The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World–The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science. Julio Mario Ottino. https://amzn.to/3b4390g   Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

Theodore A. Postol is professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely known as an expert on nuclear weapons and missile technology.Educated in physics and nuclear engineering at MIT, he was a researcher at Argonne National Lab, worked at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and was scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations.After leaving the Pentagon, Postol helped to build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in relation to defense and arms control policy.He has received numerous awards, including the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society for "incisive technical analysis of national security issues that [have] been vital for informing the public policy debate",  the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for "uncovering numerous and important false claims about missile defenses", and the Richard L. Garwin Award "that recognizes an individual who, through exceptional achievement in science and technology, has made an outstanding contribution toward the benefit of mankind."Steve and Ted discuss:0:00 Introduction2:02 Early life in Brooklyn, education at MIT, work at the Pentagon20:27 Reagan's “Star Wars” defense plan28:26 U.S. influence on Russia and China's second-strike capabilities54:41 Missile defense: vs nuclear weapons, scuds, anti-ship missiles (aircraft carriers), hypersonics 1:11:42 Nuclear escalation and the status of mutually assured destruction1:32:24 Analysis of claims the Syrian government used chemical agents against their own people1:44:45 Media skepticism Resources: Theodore Postol at MIT https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/theodore-postol/A Flawed and Dangerous US Missile Defense Plan, G. Lewis and T. Postol, Arms Control Todayhttps://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010-05/flawed-dangerous-us-missile-defense-planReview Cites Flaws in US antimissile Program, NY Times May 17 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18missile.htmlImproving US Ballistic Missile Defense Policy, G. Lewis and F. von Hippel, Arms Control Today, May 2018https://sgs.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2019-10/lewis-vonhippel-2018.pdf“Whose Sarin?” by Seymour Hersh (2013) https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n24/seymour-m.-hersh/whose-sarin--Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

Theodore A. Postol is professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely known as an expert on nuclear weapons and missile technology.Educated in physics and nuclear engineering at MIT, he was a researcher at Argonne National Lab, worked at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and was scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations.After leaving the Pentagon, Postol helped to build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in relation to defense and arms control policy.He has received numerous awards, including the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society for "incisive technical analysis of national security issues that [have] been vital for informing the public policy debate",  the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for "uncovering numerous and important false claims about missile defenses", and the Richard L. Garwin Award "that recognizes an individual who, through exceptional achievement in science and technology, has made an outstanding contribution toward the benefit of mankind."Steve and Ted discuss:0:00 Introduction2:02 Early life in Brooklyn, education at MIT, work at the Pentagon20:27 Reagan's “Star Wars” defense plan28:26 U.S. influence on Russia and China's second-strike capabilities54:41 Missile defense: vs nuclear weapons, scuds, anti-ship missiles (aircraft carriers), hypersonics 1:11:42 Nuclear escalation and the status of mutually assured destruction1:32:24 Analysis of claims the Syrian government used chemical agents against their own people1:44:45 Media skepticism Resources: Theodore Postol at MIT https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/theodore-postol/A Flawed and Dangerous US Missile Defense Plan, G. Lewis and T. Postol, Arms Control Todayhttps://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010-05/flawed-dangerous-us-missile-defense-planReview Cites Flaws in US antimissile Program, NY Times May 17 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18missile.htmlImproving US Ballistic Missile Defense Policy, G. Lewis and F. von Hippel, Arms Control Today, May 2018https://sgs.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2019-10/lewis-vonhippel-2018.pdf“Whose Sarin?” by Seymour Hersh (2013) https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n24/seymour-m.-hersh/whose-sarin--Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

We continue our discussion of AI in Science with Rick Stevens of Argonne National Lab. In addition to the new ways AI can help advance science, we also discuss ethics, bias, robustness, security,and explainability of AI, and whether AI can replace scientists. We end with a snapshot of Quantum Information Science (QIS). [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/016@HPCpodcast_AI-in-Science-w-Rick-Stevens-part2_20220310.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-16: AI in Science, a Conversation with Rick Stevens of ANL (part 2) appeared first on OrionX.net.

The Argonne National Lab materials scientist outlines how batteries can be recycled without sacrificing profits, how technology borrowed from mining can be used to extract value from old cells, the promise of solid-state, and why the U.S. is on track to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Laura Bandura discusses her 2022 Distinguished Lecture, "Quantifying the Business Impact of Seismic Technology to Deepwater Exploration." In a low oil price environment, it is more important than ever to prioritize technology projects to ensure the greatest return on investment. There is much pressure to accelerate the time-to-impact of corporate research and technology programs. In many cases, the geoscientists who are developing these breakthrough technologies are expected to demonstrate the value of these initiatives, which requires both a high degree of subject matter expertise and business fluency. In this practical conversation, Laura and host Andrew Geary showcase how to communicate technological value and your expertise to decision-makers. Laura shares how to tie your work to financial metrics, the power of simplicity and brevity, and how geoscientists can better understand decision-makers. This episode provides a useful practicum to maximize the scientist's knowledge and expertise to make a difference. RELATED LINKS * Learn more about Laura's free Distinguished Lecture (https://seg.org/Education/Lectures/Distinguished-Lectures/2022-DL-Laura-Bandura) * Discover SEG on Demand (https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand) * See the full archive of the SEG podcast (https://seg.org/podcast) BIOGRAPHY Laura Bandura advises on strategy and performance improvement opportunities across the value chain within the Chevron Gulf of Mexico Business Unit. Laura has had a diverse career in her nine years at Chevron pioneering applications of machine learning to seismic imaging and interpretation, and cross-functional digital portfolio management. Prior to Chevron, Laura was a physicist at Argonne National Lab and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University, specializing in charged particle beam dynamics with applications to nuclear physics. She co-designed the fragment separator at FRIB, which is used to isolate and discover new isotopes. Laura has published research articles and patented inventions across a variety of fields, including geophysics, machine learning, nuclear science, and charged particle beam dynamics. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from Northern Illinois University and B.S. in Biology from Aurora University. CREDITS SEG produces Seismic Soundoff to benefit its members, the scientific community, and inform the public on the value of geophysics. To show your support for the show, please leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It takes less than five seconds to leave a 5-star rating and is the number one action you can take to show your appreciation for this free resource. You can follow the podcast to hear the latest episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Original music created by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

At the start of 2022, we bring you a series of episodes that pull together the five most interesting predictions we found in multiple areas in tech. Today we look at high-performance computing, in which the processing power of a billion-billion calculations per second is close to reality. As to quantum computing, real-world problem solving is still far away, experts say. 1. High-performance computing on the cloud will go mainstream High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has reached the mainstream, according to a report by Market Watch, which projects that the market for cloud HPC will rise from $6.9 billion in 2020 to $146 billion by 2027. The major factors driving the growth of the cloud HPC market are - complex applications management, the emergence of the big data market, & the adoption of the pay-as-you-go model. IBM, Microsoft, Google, Dell, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Penguin Computing, Sabalcore Computing, Adaptive Computing, Gompute, & Univa Corporation are among the companies leading the market. 2. And so HPC-as-a-service will find traction Many vendors have moved from selling equipment to providing HPCaaS, & its rise is linked to the emergence of the cloud as an HPC solution, according to Verdict. The trend towards HPCaaS is, therefore, benefitting cloud players such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, & Alibaba although traditional HPC vendors are also offering HPCaaS. HPCaaS can be a compelling option for end-users as it puts intense data processing & workloads that require high-performance within reach of companies that lack the necessary capital to hire skilled staff & invest in hardware. HPCaaS brings HPC capabilities to those companies that cannot afford to develop HPC knowledge & infrastructure in-house. 3. Exascale HPC will arrive The high-performance computing (HPC) industry for a decade has been planning for the arrival of exascale systems—supercomputers that can process at least one exaflop or a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second. After years of planning, innovations & missed deadlines, the world is ready to fully embrace exascale computing, according to The New Stack. In the US, the first of three planned exascale systems—Frontier, which will be powered by AMD Epyc processors & Radeon Instinct MI200 GPUs—is being assembled at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory & is expected to deliver a performance of 1.5 exaflops. On the heels of that will come Aurora, which will run on Intel's new 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids CPUs & Xe-HPC Ponte Vecchio GPUs. It's expected to be completed later in 2022 at the Argonne National Lab. 4. Quantum computing will continue baby steps As to quantum computing, the technology is steadily improving, but it will likely continue to boast more media coverage than practical applications in 2022, experts at consultancy Deloitte predict. Fewer than a dozen companies worldwide will be using QCs as part of their day-to-day operations & only for a limited number of use cases, mainly around optimisation problems. The 2022 revenues for QC hardware, software, & QC-as-a-service will likely be less than $500 million. 5. Investments in QC will likely remain strong Investor interest will likely continue to be strong, according to Deloitte. VCs invested more than $1 billion into the sector in 2021, & one company even went public with a multibillion-dollar valuation. Further, investment in quantum by governments, including China, India, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, & the US, will likely bring the total to more than $5 billion for the year, Deloitte estimates.

A group of scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have one word for you. Just one word. Plastic. Well, polyurethane to be precise. This widely used material is almost never recycled. Now the lab has teamed up with Northwestern University and Dow Chemical Company to, you might say, modernize how polyurethane is made and handled. Joining the Federal Drive with more, the fuels and products group leader at Argonne's systems assessment center, Troy Hawkins.

Pete Beckman, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Lab. Pete presents his views of three convergences that are taking place: HPC and Cloud; HPC and AI; and AI at Edge. For each convergence, Pete discusses core technology, programming models, security, and privacy. Beside technology, Pete also reflects on the business and adoption angle. With diverse cultural heritage, Pete explains how he settled in Chicago, but continued traveling around the world. He concludes by giving us examples of the importance of inclusion and diversity. 

In this week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Pete Beckman, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Lab. Pete presents his views of three convergences that are taking place: HPC and Cloud; HPC and AI; and AI at Edge. For each convergence, Pete discusses core technology, programming models, security, and privacy. Beside technology, Pete also reflects on the business and adoption angle. With diverse cultural heritage, Pete explains how he settled in Chicago, but continued traveling around the world. He concludes by giving us examples of the importance of inclusion and diversity. 

In next week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Pete Beckman, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Lab. Pete presents his views of three convergences that are taking place: HPC and Cloud; HPC and AI; and AI at Edge. For each convergence, Pete discusses core technology, programming models, security, and privacy. Beside technology, Pete also reflects on the business and adoption angle. With diverse cultural heritage, Pete explains how he settled in Chicago, but continued traveling around the world. He concludes by giving us examples of the importance of inclusion and diversity. 

Pacific Gas and Electric, the beleaguered California utility at the center of the wildfire phenomenon, has turned to the Argonne National Laboratory for help. PG&E is looking for small-area weather and climate models that can help it make plans on a regional scale. Joining the Federal Drive with how the arrangement works, Argonne's chief scientist and head of its department of Atmospheric Science and Climate research, Dr. Rao Kotamarthi.

Argonne National Lab’s new ability to look inside a battery will lead to better, lighter, quicker-charging batteries, from phones to cars

Researchers from Northwestern and Argonne National Lab used X-ray beams to study the remains of a 1,900-year-old Egyptian girl — all without unraveling or damaging the mummy. Reset brings on two scientists involved in the project.

Why do stories matter to the innovation process? What values can be instilled in innovators who share stories? How do innovation leaders inspire creators to tell and share their success and failure stories? We spoke with Leslie Krohn, Chief Communications Officer at Argonne National Lab twice in 2020. First, at the beginning of the year before the COVID-19 pandemic began and then again in September, when it was already in full swing. Explore Argonne National Lab’s research initiatives during the pandemic and how storytelling can enhance the impact and relatability of scientific innovation. In this 2-part interview, Leslie gives updates on the COVID-19 research that is fueling global decision-making and global health. Research links mentioned in this episode: Heart + Mind Strategies: https://heartandmindstrategies.com/category/covid-19/ UChicago: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disease-covid-19 https://apnorc.org/projects/the-public-outlook-remains-gloomy/ Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/08/27/most-approve-of-national-response-to-covid-19-in-14-advanced-economies/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/21/americans-give-the-u-s-low-marks-for-its-handling-of-covid-19-and-so-do-people-in-other-countries/ For more information, visit our website: https://untoldcontent.com/ You can also find us on Instagram: @untoldcontent

Cindy L. Otis is a former CIA officer and an expert on disinformation threat analysis and countermessaging. She is also a Senior non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and an Associate at Argonne National Lab. Prior to joining the private sector in 2017, she served in the CIA as a military analyst, intelligence briefer, and a manager in the Directorate of Intelligence. While at the CIA, she specialized in security issues in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.  She is the author of the newly released True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Identifying and Fighting Fake News out now with Macmillan. She is a frequent media commentator work and writes regularly on disinformation and national security issues. Her written work has appeared in places like USA Today, CNN, The Daily Beast, Barron’s, Teen Vogue, Just Security, and the New York Times. She is also a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors. As a wheelchair user and passionate advocate of disability rights, she has also worked as a consultant to major disability rights organizations. She was born on the West Coast and raised on the East Coast, so Cindy is happiest when near a large body of water. She spends more time than she would like maintaining the tenuous peace that exists between her dogs and cats. Cindy's links Web: https://cindyotis.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CindyOtis_   And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing.   New Livestream https://youtube.com/erichunley    Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp  Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp  Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp    Join the Facebook group: fb.com/groups/unstructured 

Argonne National Laboratory is a massive research facility outside of Chicago that’s run by the U.S. Department of Energy. And this week, Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen take you behind the curtain to learn about some of the innovative stuff happening there. Stuff like superbatteries, supercomputers, and questions that may never get answersThis episode originally aired on August 10, 2018.

Is oneAPI living up to its promise? How do oneAPI and DPC++ relate to the Khronos Group SYCL and ISO C++ standards? Andrew Richards, Codeplay Software CEO, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, respond to these provocative questions and more from Sanjiv Shah, Intel GM and VP […]

Is oneAPI living up to its promise? How do oneAPI and DPC++ relate to the Khronos Group SYCL and ISO C++ standards? Andrew Richards, Codeplay Software CEO, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, respond to these provocative questions and more from Sanjiv Shah, Intel GM and VP […] The post Why oneAPI? first appeared on Connected Social Media.

Is oneAPI living up to its promise? How do oneAPI and DPC++ relate to the Khronos Group SYCL and ISO C++ standards? Andrew Richards, Codeplay Software CEO, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, respond to these provocative questions and more from Sanjiv Shah, Intel GM and VP […] The post Why oneAPI? first appeared on Connected Social Media.

In this episode of Code Together, we talk to Alice Chan, Vice President and General Manager of Compiler Engineering at Intel, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, about how the industry is uniting to address the need for programming portability and performance across diverse architectures, particularly important […]

In this episode of Code Together, we talk to Alice Chan, Vice President and General Manager of Compiler Engineering at Intel, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, about how the industry is uniting to address the need for programming portability and performance across diverse architectures, particularly important […]

In this episode of Code Together, we talk to Alice Chan, Vice President and General Manager of Compiler Engineering at Intel, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, about how the industry is uniting to address the need for programming portability and performance across diverse architectures, particularly important […]

Rob and Jason are joined by Nevin Liber from Argonne National Lab. They first discuss a blog post discussing issues implementing small buffer optimizations in a constexpr context. Then they talk with Nevin about how he got involved with the ISO C++ committee and some of the proposals he's worked on.   Nevin ":-)" Liber is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, a C++ Committee member and a veteran C++ developer. He first discovered the language over three decades ago while at Bell Labs when a friend called and asked, “What do you know about C++? You folks invented it!”   His professional career has taken him across various industries and platforms: big data, low-latency, operating systems, embedded systems, telephony and now exascale computing, just to name a few. He spends much of his time pushing his peers, colleagues and friends to use modern C++ constructs along the way.   Looking to learn more about the language, he got involved with the C++ Committee and hosted both the C++ and C Standards meetings in Chicago. These days he frequently finds himself in the middle of the debates involving the more contentious parts of the Standard Library. News Pack the Bits - Adventures in smallbitvector ISO 2019-10 Mailing Meetup: Payment changes comings soon C++ On Sea Registration Links Argonne National Lab Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes JetBrains  

Brandon Draeger, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Cray, joins Chip Chat to discuss the unique needs of HPC customers and how new Intel® technologies in Cray systems are helping to deliver improved performance and scalability. The Cray CS500 supercomputer includes standard rack configurations, a variety of cooling options, and a flexible software stack for users who are still investigating HPC deployments or just starting out. The XC50 that is more customizable with higher bin CPUs, accelerators, and custom interconnects as well as deployment support from Cray. Both lines are built to meet the core challenges facing HPC customers today. More and more, we are seeing the convergence of AI and HPC – users investigating how they can use AI to complement what they are already doing with their HPC workloads. This includes using machine and deep learning to analyze results from a simulation, or using AI techniques to steer where to take a simulation on the fly. One of the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor features that Brandon is excited about is Intel® Deep Learning Boost, which accelerates deep learning inference performance. Cray sees this as benefitting customers like those working with cryo-microscopy – taking hundreds of thousands of images at the structural level to test things like new drug treatments. Cryo-microscopy consumes a lot of memory, but is boosted by the improved DL inference performance. Brandon finishes his visit by discussing the upcoming Aurora exascale class system targeted for delivery to Argonne National Lab in 2021. It will feature future Intel technologies, as well as the Cray Shasta architecture to tackle the most mind-boggling human challenges. For more information, visit www.cray.com. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Intel, the Intel logo, and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation

On March 18, Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to deliver the first U.S. supercomputer to exceed one exaflop (a quintillion floating point operations per second). Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of the Extreme Computing Organization at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss this exascale class system called Aurora that is being developed for the Argonne National Lab. Damkroger outlines a few of the key technologies providing the foundation of the system including a future generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, the recently announced Intel Xe compute architecture, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, while also diving into the ground-breaking science Aurora will enable, such as precision medicine, climate modeling and forecasting, and materials science. Aurora will be anchored on Intel’s six pillars of technology innovation: process, architecture, memory, interconnect, security, and software, which Damkroger also touches on when talking about the potential use of the Intel One API program on the software side. This partnership from Intel and the DOE is helping to ensure that the U.S. stays competitive globally in scientific research and development, while allowing us to tackle challenges we haven’t been able to face with today’s most advanced petascale systems. For more information, be sure to follow Trish on Twitter @TrishDamkroger and visit www.intel.com/aurora. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Intel, Xeon, Optane, and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation

The son of a Pennsylvania preacher, Philip Koehler made his way to Florida courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Eventually he became a Professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Florida. He’s developed a mosquito and fly trap that uses a minimal amount of insecticides, and he also has developed a trap for bed bugs. He patents inventions because “you can write an article for a scientific journal and no one will ever use it.” TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:38 Bugs. We’re back to talk about something that everyone who lives or is from Florida is very familiar with and very happy to have on Radio Cade this morning, Dr. Philip Koehler, who is a professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Florida. Thanks for being with us Phil. Dr. Philip Koehler: 0:51 It’s wonderful to be here with you. Richard Miles: 0:53 Phil, I know if I tried to describe your technology I would completely mess it up. So I’m going to ask you to sort of tell me a little bit about your, your core technology core invention , um , and explain it as if , uh , and in this case, very realistic scenario. I don’t know anything about it. Dr. Philip Koehler: 1:11 Yeah, we, we started back in , uh, back in around 2010 or so trying to take on flies and mosquitoes as very dangerous animals that needed to be controlled because they , uh, they are very important from the standpoint of human welfare. There were very few products that were environmentally friendly to be able to control these , uh , these potential disease factors. And we’d gotten some funding from the military in order to develop, first of all, fly traps. And second of all , um , mosquito traps in order to be able to control them. And we’ve, we’ve developed several new technologies that have now been patented and are in the process of being commercialized throughout the entire world. Richard Miles: 1:53 And so if I understand correctly, these technologies , um, they’re, they’re mostly not, or do they have anything to do with sort of insecticides or sprays or anything, or these are different types of pest control? Dr. Philip Koehler: 2:05 Everything that we’ve done utilizes insecticides, however, they are contained so that people won’t contact them. And also they’re not a danger to the environment because they are contained. Richard Miles: 2:16 Okay, so they’re not like sprayed on a field or they’re more in receptacles or containers? Dr. Philip Koehler: 2:23 Exactly. We’re, we’re putting them associated with something that the insects like to go to. So you don’t have to, you don’t have to spray large areas of land. And that was one of the things that I was concerned about back in 2015, that the state of Florida, in order to control Zika factors, u h, they were spraying by air, over large tracks of land. And in many cases, that was the only thing that they had available to them. Richard Miles: 2:50 Okay. So I think, I , I think I understand more or less, and I hope our listeners do as well. So let’s, let’s go back in time to a young Phil Koehler , uh , sort of tell us your origin story, where were you from and how did a nice guy, like you ended up , dealing with bugs? Dr. Philip Koehler: 3:05 Oh, I started growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania and , uh , my family actually goes back to like 1702. They bought the farm from William Penn. So we were longstanding in the state of , uh, of Pennsylvania. However, I ended up in Florida somehow. And, and I remember when I was playing little league baseball, I was always the right fielder, which was always the sorriest player on the team. And if a ball was hitting my direction, I would never know it because I was watching the ants crawl around on the ground. So I always have enjoyed insects in one way or another through my entire life. Richard Miles: 3:44 So, at what point did you know you weren’t going to make the majors, pretty early on in your baseball career? Dr. Philip Koehler: 3:49 I was, I think the , the managers of the team hated to put me on the field. And so I think it was pretty clear I was not, Richard Miles: 3:56 And this is the days before helicopter parents. Right? So it’s not like your dad stormed onto the field and demanded more playing time for you, right? Dr. Philip Koehler: 4:02 My dad didn’t do that. He did not storm onto the field because I was bad player. Richard Miles: 4:08 So were either of your parents, scientists at all? Dr. Philip Koehler: 4:11 Neither one, as a matter of fact, my father was a minister and, u h, he was, u h, he was for years in, in Pennsylvania then, u h, went to Virginia and then retired back to Pennsylvania again. So it’s, u h, so probably I have a long history of people talking i n my family. Richard Miles: 4:33 Um, so how did you end up in Florida? Did you come here as an undergraduate or did your family have a connection here? Dr. Philip Koehler: 4:39 Actually, no. What happened was I did my undergraduate work at Catava college, which was a college that was affiliated with the church that my father, my father was a minister in . And so I got a really good break because ministers don’t get paid very much. And so I got a good break as far as cost . And then, Richard Miles: 4:59 So, this is in Pennsylvania? Dr. Philip Koehler: 5:01 Uh , this was Catava College is in North Carolina, Salisbury, North Carolina. And while I was there, I was picked up for two NSF fellowships at Oak Ridge National Lab. And I was working on chironomid midges. In other words , uh , uh, insects that grow on the bottoms of lakes. And they had a Lake there that had been contaminated with radioactive waste from building the bombs for , uh , bombing Japan. They’d put that waste in 55 gallon drums, buried it in the hillside. And when they rusted out, they built a dam then to contain the radioactive waste. So I would walk out there and the radioactive waste, collect these midges and then determine the , the abnormalities that were a result of radiation. So I did two summers there, and then I went to Argonne National Lab and was doing neutron activation a nd gamma Ray spectroscopy, which is a physics project. And I found out what I really didn’t want to do in life, which was that. Richard Miles: 6:02 So let me guess, did you, did you volunteer for this, Phil? This sounds sort of like dangerous work, radioactive midges, and I mean, did somebody have a gun to your head or what? Dr. Philip Koehler: 6:11 There were many days that someone was walking behind me with a Geiger counter to see how much radiation I was actually getting. And maybe that’s the reason. Richard Miles: 6:18 He said it was a Geiger counter right there. Just make sure you weren’t didn’t turn and run away. Dr. Philip Koehler: 6:21 Of course, that may be why I’m so strange today. Richard Miles: 6:25 So you shifted from that , um, into, or did you already have an interest in entomology before that sort of academic interest? Dr. Philip Koehler: 6:32 Yes. I had an academic interest in entomology and actually I took my first entomology class at Catava College. But then I went on to Cornell University and got my PhD at Cornell University. I was going to be drafted into the army. They already had me down for that . They already did my physical and were going to put me in the trenches in Vietnam. And I had the opportunity to get into the Navy as an entomologist. And I went in as a Lieutenant , uh , entomologist and spent three years then in Jacksonville. And because I was at Jacksonville and, and teaching classes , on insect control to two Navy personnel, I got to work closely with some of the faculty here at the University of Florida. So I ended up then getting hired, u h, at the University of Florida as an assistant professor back in 1975. So I’ve been here for 44 years. Richard Miles: 7:31 So who knew, thanks to the U.S. Navy, you ended up in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Philip Koehler: 7:35 That’s right. And what was interesting was I got in the Navy because they needed another entomologist to go to Vietnam, to take care of some of the mosquito problems there. And , um, and at that time they started winding down Vietnam. And so I stayed there in , in Jacksonville for my entire tour of duty. So I had three years , uh , three years there and now 44 here. Richard Miles: 8:01 So I’m going to have to start giving the Navy professional credit here. Cause you’re actually the second guest in a row. I just had a guest on and his sort of trajectory was also to do with the Navy and it was in the area of radio-frequency antennas and he eventually went into the MRI business and so on. And so, you know, go Navy, I guess. Um, uh , okay. So let’s, let’s come sort of back to where you are, did not start a company with your technology, but you did license the technology and understand there’s a company in Italy that is using it? Dr. Philip Koehler: 8:28 Yeah. So, so what happens at the University of Florida is , uh, when you have something that you think is patentable, you let the university know because they have first choice to , uh, to decide whether they want to adopt it or not. The University of Florida adopted these technologies. And then , uh, found a partner with a company that is actually managed out of Italy, but is a Florida company now. And it’s called Florida Insect Control Group. And they’re just to commercializing the technologies that we developed. Richard Miles: 8:59 And who are , who are the major clients, I mean, are these sort of governments that are buying or anybody, these aren’t retail products right? Dr. Philip Koehler: 9:05 Okay. The , the process for this is , is very long and convoluted in order to get the technologies that we have available because we’re using insecticides. We have to go through all of the registration processes for every , uh , for every country that, that these products are going to be sold. And so right now , uh , we’re in the last stage, the company’s in the last stages of getting EPA registration in the United States and also European union , uh , registration , uh , for European countries and also former colonies of those of those countries as well. So, so basically the only registration that we have for use right now is in Poland. And I have no idea why Poland, I can’t even read the label on the product, but it was, it was one that, u h, that seemed reasonable for them to go to. First, Richard Miles: 9:59 I noticed also that you are, you have been inducted or were inducted in the pest management professional hall of fame. I have to say, you’re the first inductee in the pest management hall of fame and I’ve met so, honored here. Dr. Philip Koehler: 10:12 Yeah . So that was, that was quite an honor because they , uh, they try to choose the people that have made the most outstanding contributions to the pest management industry throughout the country and throughout the world. Actually, most of the , uh, the, the organization national pest management association is , uh , is not national. It’s a worldwide association where they have participants from all over the world, including India and Japan. And another thing that I forgot to tell you was that this year I’m being inducted as a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors and, Richard Miles: 10:48 Oh, congratulation in Tampa right? Dr. Philip Koehler: 10:49 It was first started in Tampa, but this year the, the award is going to be in Houston at the space center there. And from what I understand, the, the award will be passed out by the gentlemen who is in charge of patents and trade for the U.S. Richard Miles: 11:04 Oh, Congratulations. Dr. Philip Koehler: 11:05 So it’s quite quite an honor for me. And also I think for the University of Florida. Richard Miles: 11:10 Um, Phil, if you’re allowed to tell us, what are you working on now in terms of research, sort of what’s on the horizon , um, in terms of your , uh , sort of academic interests , or do you have anything else that you are getting ready to license or patent that you can talk about? Dr. Philip Koehler: 11:25 Well, actually , um , uh , I think that according to the University of Florida records, I have 19 patents in the U.S. that have been issued and probably five international. And , uh, there are five more that are being issued at this point. So, so we have quite a, quite a stack of them going through that are novel inventions that, that we’re trying to bring to people, to be able to manage insights that are dangerous in their own yards and in an environmentally friendly way. Richard Miles: 11:57 One thought that occurred to me, Phil is how much do you have to know of or work with? Um, uh, I guess sort of like urban planners or urban designers, or even sociologists, because it occurs to me that some of the patterns in what you’re dealing with right, are , are concentrations of people making decision on somewhere to live, and those patterns change over time. And they change city by city country, by country. How much of your work intersects with that world in which you’re , you’re actually looking at the sociology of the urban environment before you look at the bugs there? Dr. Philip Koehler: 12:28 Yeah. Well, we haven’t really worked with the sociologists all that much. Um , what we’ve, what we’ve been trying to do is work with people in material science and engineering in order to come up with formulations that can be used in the way that we want these products to be used. So by putting together the people that have a knowledge of the molecules, along with the people that have a knowledge of the insects, we’ve been able to come up with novel ways of approaching insect control. So one of the first products that we came up with was a fly trap. That was a color blue. And if you’re familiar with fly traps at all, they’re usually yellow. Now I did not understand why they were yellow because flies always go to blue over yellow and as a matter of fact, it’s like two to one, they’ll go to blue over yellow, but most of the fly traps were developed in agriculture for agriculturally important pests. They’re attacking plants and a sick plant is yellow. And so the i nse cts attracted to things that are, that the agricultural pests are attracted to things that are mostly yellow in color. So they just went ahead and said, we control flies too. W ell , guess what? Blue is a better color. So we came up with blue. And one of the things that I noticed was flies like to squeeze into small cracks and crevices. And I couldn’t believe it. We grow flies at our l ab, of course, and you can put them in a plastic bag and, and crinkle it up. Like you would a bag of potato chips and try to try to seal it off as tight as you can. And the flies would find their way out. They love squeezing into cracks and crevices. So they’re actually attracted to the blue color and then secondarily the black color of a crack. So what we did was we put, uh, w e p u t a piece of yarn on there, treated the yarn with insecticide, and we could kill thousands of flies in a short period of time. We hung them over dumpsters and the flies would, would fall dead. And we catch them in a tray underneath and be able to count them. And it was thousands of flies and like a 24 hour period that you could kill with just a little bit of product on, uh, o n m a ybe 12 inches of yarn on a blue w ith t hat’ s put on a blue background and they’re attracted to the blue color. They think there’s a crack there because they see the black on the blue and they go to that and there’s food there. So they eat it and they die. And it’s a very nice way to be able to control flies without spraying everything around your property and around your, um, y o ur farm for fly control. Richard Miles: 15:05 So you, you make it sound kind of easy, but this, I imagine took hours and hours of research. I mean, I just pity the poor grad assistant who had to count all those flies, right? I mean, this is, this is how long did it take just to , uh, determine what you just told me is that months of research or is that years of research? Dr. Philip Koehler: 15:21 Oh it was years. Actually, we started out by putting, by doing electroretinograms on the flies. Now he’s like electroretinogram is where you shine a particular wavelength of light onto a fly eye. And you have a probes set in there. So you can determine whether there’s an electrical impulse going to the brain or not from that , uh, from that light. And then you can change the wavelengths of light and find out what the fly is most sensitive to. And they’re most sensitive to blue and they can see yellow. And that’s actually, that was the only color that repelled flies. And so the traps that are out there, u h, for the most part are yellow and r epelling flies. Richard Miles: 16:03 In your experience, Phil , is there a certain personality type of people that are attracted to entomology research? Cause it’s, you know, they’re animals for sure, but they’re not like cute furry animals and they’re not plants. So have you noticed any commonalities and you know, you and your colleages? Dr. Philip Koehler: 16:19 Well for a lot of the people, and I must admit this goes back quite a few years, my experience with antibiotics , uh , they’re very much like engineers, they’re socially awkward. And so, so it’s , uh , it’s rather interesting dealing with both engineers and , and entomologists as well. And one other thing, Richard Miles: 16:38 It’s almost like the , the joke, you know, accountants will tell about actuaries and actuaries tell about accounts and who is the more socially awkward, is it something like that? Dr. Philip Koehler: 16:45 Yeah, and maybe the entomologists have been engineer’s beat and you asked how many flies we had to count in order to get this thing done. It was amazing how many flies that we had to count. I had a, I had a student that came to the University of Florida , uh, from Thailand and she didn’t speak very much English and I couldn’t figure out what project to put her on. So I told her to count all the flies and we had one of those traps that we had made, and we wanted to see how many flies it could kill with one charge. So we hung with hung that trap in a cage and we killed flies and we, and we, then we would add more flies in, cause we couldn’t get all the flies in the cage that all at one time we keep on adding flies as they died. And then she had to count every one and she spent three months counting flies. We got up to 40,000. We were still killing 99% of the flies that we released in the cage. And she had to go back to Thailand and so we stopped counting, but every morning I would go in there and she would, u h, she’d separate the flies out into piles of 10. And she would have the days kill there, which m ay b e four or 5,000, u h, flies. And then, u h, then count each fly individually. Richard Miles: 18:06 So I can imagine she went back and had great stories to tell a parties. What did you do in the United States for three months? Well I counted flies. Dr. Philip Koehler: 18:12 Yes. It was an exciting place. Richard Miles: 18:16 Hopefully it didn’t scare off of entomology . Dr. Philip Koehler: 18:18 Actually that information was quite valuable. We killed 40,000 flies with the thing with one charge. And we did that over three months now , you know, whether it’s effective or not. Yeah . We didn’t have to retreat it at all. And so it’s been , uh , that , uh , that whole process of development of that , uh , of that product was, was actually quite interesting. And , um, and Florida insect control group acquired the rights to that and is commercializing that now. Richard Miles: 18:44 So Phil, you’ve also done some work with bedbugs. Tell me what that’s about. Dr. Philip Koehler: 18:47 Yes. We’ve been working extensively with bedbugs over the past 20 years. They started coming back in the U.S. Somewhere around the turn of the century where around the year 2000 or so , uh , bedbugs came back and people really didn’t have a good way to , uh, to manage them. What we’ve done is invented a new type of trap that you can put underneath a bed. And one of the things that they can’t do at the hotels and motels is u sed traps very effectively because they, underneath the mattress and box Springs, they usually have wood that’s on the ground, like a t wo-by-six, u h, that is underneath the mattress and box Springs as a frame. W ell, we’ve invented, u h, u h, a trap t hat can go around those beds and w e’ve feel that we can eliminate the b edbug problem in many of the hotels and motels that would have problems with ifestations. Richard Miles: 19:41 That sounds like a huge commercial potential there, right? I mean, I’ve known a few people, who’ve had bedbugs and it sounds like an absolute nightmare in terms of actually getting rid of them. Dr. Philip Koehler: 19:49 And everyone’s fear is you, when you travel, you stay at a , you stay at a place and you may pick up bedbugs and it’s very easy to bring bedbugs home. And you may be faced with , uh , with a $1,000 or a $2,000 bill in order to have them controlled in your house. They can be much more expensive than even termites to control. Richard Miles: 20:07 Because the conventional treatment now is you have to wet seal off and fumigate a room? Is that how you do it? Dr. Philip Koehler: 20:13 In many cases in Florida, they’re doing fumigation. However, there is heat treatment that’s also available. Uh, but none of those provide longterm protection. As soon as you have the temperature, go back to normal or release the gas, then the bedbugs can come back in again from someplace else. So the next time you stay at a motel, you may bring them back in and it may cost. It may cost a lot of money in order to be able to get them controlled. So we’re trying to come up with some solutions that people could put under , uh, under the legs of their bed, or even in hotels and motels that can be put , uh , put as a frame or underneath the frame of the bed in order to catch bed bugs that are, that are brought into the place. Richard Miles: 20:55 Phil, as you look back on your career, you know, starting in Philadelphia and going to North Carolina and then to Jacksonville , then to Gainesville , um, you know, what, what sort of lessons have you learned or what lessons would you impart to say a younger version of you if you met them on the street, you know, a researcher and in particular, you know, since the Cade Museum , um, you know, we like to tell stories of inventions and inventors, particularly those who think that they’ve got a great idea, the idea may have market potential. Um, you know, what, what should they be thinking about , uh, now, or, you know, what , what do you wish you had done, if anything, and what do you wish you hadn’t done? So that should be enough material in that question to go for quite a long time. Dr. Philip Koehler: 21:37 Okay. Well that was to go for , for quite a while . As a matter of fact , um , my advice to , to kids is they , they need to go to a college that they really , uh , there that really fits their personality. Not every, not every child is destined for the University of Florida and not everybody that gets into the University of Florida is going to be able to adjust, adjust to the size of the university. Because I went to a small place like Catava College that had somewhere around 1100 students, which is, you know , maybe the size of our department at the University of Florida. Um, it allowed me to be able to grow as a person with a small group that , uh, that we all knew each other. And you can survive at the University of Florida if you have a small group. And like at the end of biology department, we do a very good job of, of taking care of our students individually. But there are other departments that have thousands of students in them. We have, we have probably 50 undergraduates and maybe 140 , uh , graduate students. So we’re a small department in the overall scheme of things at the University of Florida. And I think it’s very important for, for kids to be able to find a place that they’re comfortable with , uh, based on their own personality. And even at the University of Florida, it’s a big place, but if you get into a small department, then you have kind of a small field to , uh , to a big place. Richard Miles: 23:06 As far as , uh, you know, a big invention. We had a recent guest on here who said , um, he , he thought a lot of people , uh, were focused on the short-term nature or the short term desire to hit it big out, you know, do something along the lines. But , uh , three to five years, and, and, and his experience was much different. He said, look, if you’re not willing to invest 15 or even 20 years into a project or a company or whatever , um, you know, you , it’s very unrealistic to think you’re going to succeed. Has that been your experience? Dr. Philip Koehler: 23:41 That’s very much my experience. And as a matter of fact , uh, I got in, I got into doing some of the patents and inventions , uh, because you can go ahead and publish a scientific article and put it in a book on a shelf and nobody will ever use it. And I thought that, that, that was a shame because a lot of good scientific research never gets implemented because the professor is being rated on how many publications he’s able to get into scientific journals. And they really don’t take much into account when they’re evaluating you on how many things that you’ve tried to do to make sure that what you’re doing is, is really effecting people’s lives to the positive. So, so I kind of look at it that it’s a long-term investment. And as a matter of fact, anytime that you’re dealing with , uh, with insecticides and trying to contain them in a way that would be environmentally safe, there are a lot of hoops that you have to go through and it’s a long-term process. And we started out way back in 2010 on the mosquito invention. And , uh , we still don’t have EPA registration yet. And part of the process was, was , uh, were some things that happened that I would have never anticipated. And one was that, u h, that when we, what we try to do in that mosquito invention is put a surface on the inside of a container because container mosquitoes are extremely important f or, for people’s health. Those container mosquitoes can transmit d aggy, u h, Zika, u h, Chicken Gunyah. And of course, yellow fever is coming back throughout the world. So those are container breeding mosquitoes. We can treat the interior of our container, have it the right c olor. S o the mosquitoes are attracted to it. So we have black and red is t he colors that are, that are attracted. And then we have a polymer because insecticides b reak d own very rapidly when they’re in high humidity or in water conditions. So we have a polymer to slowly release the chemicals i n the mosquitoes. Then in order to lay eggs, they land on the side of the container, or they rest inside the container b ecause they don’t fly all the time. U h, and then they die when they contact the insecticides, or if they lay eggs before they die, then the larvae then die in the container as well. Well, to make a long story longer, what happened was that EPA wants to know how long that insecticide is going to be at the right concentration when it’s on the shelf. So you have to do a two year study that you have to a pprove a two year shelf life. We ll, because we have a complex mixture. Everyone that deals with insecticides always does gas chromatography in order to determine the amount of chemical that’s in th ere, gas chromatography does not work for complex mixtures like ours. So we spent probably two years doing the wrong thing, trying to figure out what’s wrong with, with this assay, odd , w hy can’t we measure the amount of insecticide that’s in that container. And, and finally, I got so frustrated. I was, I would say, we need to use high pressure liquid chromatography HPLC in order to determine the concentration. And because the company that we’re working with is run out of Italy. They found a lab in Italy that goes, yeah, there isn’t any reason why you should have ever looked at gas chromatography for this. You sho uld ha v e do ne a H P LC right. To begin with. And so the y, t hey did it, everything came out fine. And now we’re dealing with EPA. And again, u h , th at the , t he data has been submitted there. So is it alo ng, t his is a long story, but guess what? Uh, i t ‘s not, as long as the story that we’ve had and tr ying to commercialize this, because you, aren’t going to make a fortune in a year, you aren’t going to make a fortune two years. And it probably is 15 to 20 years out that everything is going to work. We have players who are wanting to use this worldwide, and we have one company has a 37, 0 00 employees that does mosquito control throughout the world. They, they look at this as something that will be integrated into their programs and will work very well with what they’re currently doing. So they want to get a hol d of i t, but we’re stuck with a reg u latory hurdles right now in both the European union and the U.S. and China and Australia, and all of those other places. Richard Miles: 28:13 So here’s some free advice for you, Phil , when you give your acceptance speech at the National Academy of Inventors, repeat a lot of what you just said. I just heard the founder of that. Paul Sanberg, one of the founders, u m, talk about, u h, exactly what you said, that the process of patenting a nd commercialization is a far more effective way to expand the body of knowledge, u m, b ecause y ou g ot t o prove something works, u m, as opposed to simply publishing something academic journal, which may or may not get read, and then maybe forgotten about, but patenting by definition means you have to prove a certain standard and it’s, it’s widely available, widely use may be implemented. And so he argues all the time that inventors play this special role in expanding the body of knowledge, as opposed to, u h, just researchers. I mean, a lot of vendors are also researchers, but the inventors go that extra step of exactly what you just described t o h aving to prove something actually works. Dr. Philip Koehler: 29:03 You don’t often think about it from the standpoint of science, that the proof of science is to publish it in a peer reviewed journal. But the commercialization of that is a whole different process and, and very much , uh, very much different than what most academic people are used to dealing with. Richard Miles: 29:21 My final comment. Uh Phil’s I can’t wait to win a bar bet or trivial pursuit game by saying that insects are actually attracted to blue and not yellow. So I know it’s going to, if I just wait long enough, I know I’m going to , I’m going to win some sort of argument somewhere. Phil, thank you very much for coming on Radio Cade has been very , uh, interesting and , um, good luck and best luck with your research and your product. Dr. Philip Koehler: 29:43 Thank you. Richard Miles: 29:44 I’m Richard Miles. Outro: 29:48 Radio Cade would like to thank the following people for their help and support Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating and vendor interviews. Bob McPeak of Heartwood Soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing and production of the podcasts and music theme, Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song, featuring violinist, Jacob Lawson and special, thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

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An Argonne National Lab atmospheric scientist returned from northern Alaska Sunday. He seems to have brought the polar vortex with him. Plus, the latest in our series What’s That Building.

Here at Nerdette, we've wanted to visit Argonne National Laboratory for MANY YEARS. Why? Because it's a massive research facility, it's just outside of Chicago, and it shares many similarities with Hawkins National Laboratory, the fictional government science complex from the Netflix show Stranger Things.Greta, Tricia and our trusty guide Justin Breaux take a tour of Argonne, where we talk with a bunch of super-smart scientists about the stuff they're working on and the questions they're trying to answer. Questions like: If you had one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, what problems should you solve? And if you could solve those problems, how would you go about doing it? And what if one problem — a problem you've dedicated your entire career to solving — isn't solvable for centuries?Also, can we see the Upside Down?Guests:Katherine Riley, director of science at Argonne’s Leadership Computing FacilityRajesh Sankaran, computer scientist at Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science DivisionLei Cheng, chemist with Argonne's Joint Center for Energy Storage ResearchMatt Dietrich, experimental physicist at Argonne's Physics Division

Episode Content:​ Amanda's interest in chemistry and her work at a crime lab.   A breakdown of molybdenum 99 and technetium 99m.   Why metastable isotopes are useful for medical applications.   What are ligins?   From a security perspective, why it's in the US' interest to domestically produce molybdenum 99.   The traditional and nontraditional methods of producing molybdenum 99.   Tradeoffs of different production processes.   The Argonne Molybdenum Research Experiment.   Why precipitating uranium creates a hotspot.   How corrosion can be beneficial in producing uranium peroxide precipitate.   What's in store for the future.  

Episode Content: Tom's introduction to the nuclear industry from a history project.   How Trenoble reinforced the importance of nuclear and safety.   Why reactor physicists are crucial when designing reactors.   Unprotected loss of flow tests and unprotected loss of heat sync tests.   Scram Systems and their importance during a shutdown failure.   The Generation 4 International Forum.   Why it's important to be involved and engaged in the international community.   The difference in start-up procedures for sodium reactors and light water reactors.   SAS and what code means in the nuclear world.   Economic modeling for reactors and the future of sodium technology.  

Episode Content: Hussein's fascination with reactor physics and kinetics.   Methods used to recover detailed information of reaction rates in the core.   The definition of course information.   How reducing computational uncertainty allows you to design closer to material capability.   Time-dependent changes to chemical structures.   How predictions and data encourage the move away from light water reactors.   Moving from spent fuel to used fuel.   The implications of pyro-processing.   The Generation 4 Initiative and the future of nuclear reactors.   How to economically analyze technology options.   The importance of having a diverse system of commercially-pursued technology.   Addressing the challenge of bringing new technologies to the market.  

Episode Content: Chris' start in the Nuclear Propulsion Office Candidate Program.   Training with the A1W Prototype in Idaho Falls.   Technology development and sodium-cooled power plants.   Improving the cost performance of technology.   Advanced and vessel refueling machines.   Sodium and its different mediums.   The history of metal and the importance of building to increasing scale for commercialization.   Alkaline metal technology development.   Function of the cold trap in a sodium loop.   The differences between a sodium system and a light water system.   Aqueous and pyro processing technology development  The importance of maintaining the US' technology edge and knowledge base 

Episode Content: John's introduction to nuclear during his work with the Geological Survey.   How radiocarbon dating actually works.   The interdisciplinary nature of the nuclear industry.   In what circumstances types of fuels are considered efficient.   Energy produced with plutonium v. uranium.   Core-reload strategies and how it can save billions in electricity production.   Improving efficiency without compromising safety.   The importance of economies of scale and innovation culture.   Why studying the effect of radiation on materials is important.   Isotope production and its different medical applications.   Stress-test procedures and radioactive contrast.   A discussion about high density fuel.  

Password leaks have become an unfortunately common occurrence, with billions of records leaked in the past few years. In this work we develop and economic model to help predict how many user passwords such an attacker will crack after such a breach. Our analysis indicates that currently deployed key stretching mechanisms such as PBKDF2 and BCRYPT provide insufficient protection for user passwords. In particular, our analysis shows that a rational attacker will crack 100% of passwords chosen from a Zipf's law distribution and that Zipf's Law accurately models the distribution of most user passwords. This dismal claim holds even if PBKDF2 is used with 100,000 hash iterations (10 times greater than NIST's minimum recommendation). On a positive note our analysis demonstrates that memory hard functions (MHFs) such as SCRYPT or Argon2i can significantly reduce the damage of an offline attack. Based on our analysis we advocate that password hashing standards should be updated to require the use of memory hard functions for password hashing and disallow the use of non-memory hard functions such as BCRYPT or PBKDF2. About the speaker: Ben Harsha is a Computer Science Ph.D. student advised by Jeremiah Blocki. He currently works on password security and cryptographic hash functions. Before coming to Purdue in 2015 he also worked on distributed sensor networks at Argonne National Lab, as well as neural network optimization and computer science education methods at DePauw University. He has received a Masters from Purdue and a Bachelors from DePauw University.

It's been seven years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Could a sponge developed by Argonne National Lab help stop the next big oil spill from becoming a catastrophe?

This week I chat with Hal Finkel of Argonne National Lab about computational cosmology, cosmic inflation, and. . .computers taking over the world. Special thanks to the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program Review for hosting this recording session. Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www.RealspacePodcast.com Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PaulMattSutter Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PaulMattSutter Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/PaulMattSutter Big Thanks to my top Patreon supporters this month: Justin Gealta, Jerry, Tim Feaver, Helge Bjorkhaug, Alan McClintock, Tim Rattray, Ray Sutter, MIchael Clanton, Bill Smith, Lars Hammer, David Ciaverella, Silvan Wespi, and David Berger! Theme song "Live Long and Podcast" by Nick Bain, Into The Machine Recordings (http://intothemachine.bandcamp.com) 2015, all rights reserved.

Dr Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University, UK in 2002, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University, Canada. He subsequently returned to the UK in 2005 to Plymouth Marine Laboratory at a senior scientist until his move to Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago in 2010. Dr Gilbert is Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at University of Chicago, Associate Director of the Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis and sequencing tools to test fundamental hypotheses in ARgone National Labmicrobial ecology. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on metagenomics and approaches to ecosystem ecology (www.gilbertlab.com). He is currently working on generating observational and mechanistic models of microbial communities in natural, urban, built and human ecosystems. He is on the board of the Genomic Standards Consortium is a section editor for PLoS ONE and senior editor for the ISME Journal and Environmental Microbiology. Among other projects, he leads the Earth Microbiome Project Home Microbiome Project Hospital Microbiome Project and co-founded American Gut. In 2014 he was recognized on Crainâ??s Buisness Chicagoâ??s 40 Under 40 List. Dr. Gilbert was mentioned in a few interviews recently when we got into discussions on the microbiome of the built environment. He is a prolific researcher and speaker we are thrilled to have been able to schedule him this week.

Dr Jack A Gilbert earned his Ph.D. from Unilever and Nottingham University, UK in 2002, and received his postdoctoral training at Queens University, Canada. He subsequently returned to the UK in 2005 to Plymouth Marine Laboratory at a senior scientist until his move to Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago in 2010. Dr Gilbert is Group Leader for Microbial Ecology at Argonne National Laboratory, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the Department of Surgery at University of Chicago, Associate Director of the Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis and sequencing tools to test fundamental hypotheses in ARgone National Labmicrobial ecology. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on metagenomics and approaches to ecosystem ecology (www.gilbertlab.com). He is currently working on generating observational and mechanistic models of microbial communities in natural, urban, built and human ecosystems. He is on the board of the Genomic Standards Consortium is a section editor for PLoS ONE and senior editor for the ISME Journal and Environmental Microbiology. Among other projects, he leads the Earth Microbiome Project Home Microbiome Project Hospital Microbiome Project and co-founded American Gut. In 2014 he was recognized on Crainâ??s Buisness Chicagoâ??s 40 Under 40 List. Dr. Gilbert was mentioned in a few interviews recently when we got into discussions on the microbiome of the built environment. He is a prolific researcher and speaker we are thrilled to have been able to schedule him this week.

Thomas LeCompte of Argonne National Lab was the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He talks about the instrument and its future, as we await the December 13th announcement as to whether the LHC has found the Higgs particle