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Emilee Cook is a Director of Product Strategy at Apprentice.io, leading technology to help Life Sciences companies get life-saving drugs to market faster by connecting global workforces and scaling complex manufacturing. Over her 10 years in life sciences, she's spent time in R&D producing biomimetic devices at Draper Laboratory, developed Syncade solutions for 260+ customer issues, founded new user-driven product development approaches, and crafted strategies for next-gen pharma solutions at Emerson and now at Apprentice.io. She recently won Manufacturing Institute's STEP AHEAD Emerging Leader Award for 2021 for these efforts. The Industry 4.0 Podcast with Grantek delivers a look into the world of manufacturing, with a focus on stories and trends that lead to better solutions.   Our guests will share tips and outcomes that will help improve your productivity. You will hear from leading providers of Industrial Control System hardware and software, Grantek experts and leaders at best-in-class industry associations that serve Life Sciences and Food & Beverage manufactures.

Last Friday, Payload moderated the “Beyond LEO” panel at the MIT Sloan New Space Age Conference in Cambridge. Joining us were: Will Hovik, engineering lead @ Honeybee Robotics; Kevin Duda, senior space systems manager @ Draper Laboratory; Forrest Meyen, cofounder and CSO of Lunar Outpost; and Blair DeWitt, the founder and CEO of Lunar Station.Today's Pathfinder is brought to you by Kepler Communications, a company bringing the internet to space. Find out more at https://kepler.space/• A sneak peek •This discussion couldn't have come at a better time. On Monday, ispace said its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander has entered orbit around the moon. And more “ships,” i.e., landers and rovers, are set to depart for the Moon in the coming months. Our Beyond LEO discussion centered around what comes next on, near, and around the Moon: robotic explorers, habitation modules, crewed missions, energy, lunar infrastructure, and in-situ resource utilization.What follows are some takeaways from the panel.$$$: Funding models changed drastically between Apollo and Artemis, and VCs can often miscalculate risk with lunar ventures. Duda estimated that NASA is paying an average of ~$1M per kilogram of payloads delivered to the lunar surface.The new approach: Embrace failure, iterate rapidly, and buy down risk by sending multiple ships.CLPS: The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is an on-ramp for NASA to support commercial players without taking over the mission. In theory this support could spur more innovation and commercial growth.NASA: The agency is undergoing an organizational change, as it shifts from being a fully integrated operator to a customer.Humans and machines: It's not either-or. Striking a balance between automation and human presence is key as we return to the Moon, with robots carrying out preliminary groundwork and humans making high-level decisions and performing experiments on the surface.Beyond LEO and lunar: Mars remains the ultimate goal of space exploration, with the Moon serving as a stepping stone to deeper space missions.While our sights were set beyond LEO, the last decade in low Earth orbit offers lessons, both good and bad, for cislunar aspirants. LEO applications, such as satcom services or environmental monitoring, have thrived due to their direct impact on everyday life. NASA and cislunar players, it follows, should go to extra lengths to make the Moon relevant to the general public and explain how lunar exploration will benefit us back on Earth. “We don't really know what the lunar towns are gonna find,” DeWitt said, “but [they'll] find something and it's gonna participate in helping us here on Earth."• Chapters •0:00 Intro & Kepler Ad 2:11 Panel Intro 7:36 Fundraising, capital formation, and partnerships 12:44 How important that those first ships are successful? 17:18 Role of NASA as a partner 22:01 What are some pivotal technologies that are going to be used on the lunar surface? 27:30 Automation vs crew exploration32:15 What are the priorities for future Artemis crews? 35:09 Positive takeaways from LEO 37:24 Kepler Ad break 38:12 Q&A• Show notes •MIT New Space Age — http://newspaceage.org/ Honeybee — https://www.honeybeerobotics.com/ Draper — https://www.draper.com/ Lunar Outpost — https://lunaroutpost.com/ Lunar Station — https://lunarstation.space/ CLPS — https://payloadspace.com/whos-who-lunar-landers-and-rovers/ Ryan's socials — https://twitter.com/Ryandoofy / https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfduffy/ Payload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uY3GaNf67hP-i6TRWF2n06xMv1kdkZ6Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes• About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world. We publish three properties:1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/) 2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com) 3) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)Find out more about us at http://payloadspace.com/

“There was no choice but to be a pioneer.” Margaret Hamilton Mother of software engineering   Artwork: Hamilton's portrait in the Fearless Portrait project is based on an iconic photograph of her standing next to a stack of binders about as tall as she is. These binders contained the computer code she and her team wrote for the Apollo Mission. I've drawn her with black ink on a 1966 US Air Force map of the moon.   The Story: On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were three minutes away from making their historic landing on the moon when the lunar lander's onboard computer began spitting out emergency alarms.  Faced with the critical choice of aborting the mission or not, flight controllers in Houston chose to trust the computer's software that Margaret Hamilton, director of Apollo flight computer programming and her team at MIT's Draper Laboratory developed.  “It quickly became clear the software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem but was compensating for it,” said Hamilton.  It turned out that the astronaut's checklist was at fault, telling them to set the rendezvous radar switch in the wrong position. The radar began bombarding the onboard computer with irrelevant information and overloading the computer. In a situation like this, Hamilton's code dictated the computer should reboot. The restarting process allowed the computer to reprioritize tasks—ignoring the incoming radar information and focusing on the critical landing calculations.  “If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful Moon landing it was,” Hamilton would later write.  In an era before screens, Hamilton and her team manually typed 11,000 pages of code writing the Apollo Project software. Stacked up, the software was the same height as Hamilton. The monumental achievement of putting a man on the moon was all the more impressive as the astronauts had access to a mere 72 kilobytes of memory. A standard smartphone today has more than million times more storage space.  Six and half hours after the fraught landing, Armstrong made his historic first step on the moon, saying, “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”   Background on Hamilton: Hamilton was born on August 17, 1936 in Paoli, Indiana. After graduating in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, she took a job at MIT. It was supposed to be a temporary step, supporting her husband while he was in law school. It was here that she first learned what a computer was and how to write software. Her early experiences at MIT paved the way for her passion for building ultra-reliable software.  Initially planning to leave her job and pursue a master's in abstract mathematics, she caught the programming bug and continued working at MIT when the university was asked to work on the Apollo space program.  “I was the first programmer to join and the first woman they hired,” she said. “Male engineers were already working on the project, but they were hardware engineers and it wasn't their thing.” Within a few years, she was leading a whole team of programmers at MIT in what would later be known as Draper Laboratory.  Her work as a computer scientist and a mother often collided and Hamilton would bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab at night and on weekends. One day, Hamilton was running a simulation of a moon mission and Lauren began punching buttons like her mom. Lauren began running a pre-launch program while the system was already “on the way” to the moon and the system crashed and erased the navigational data taking her to the moon.  “This could inadvertently happen in a real mission,” thought Hamilton and she pushed for software changes to address the issue. The higher-ups at NASA said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. On the very next mission—Apollo 8—astronaut Jim Lovell made the exact same error. NASA let Hamilton make the software fix after that.   Still in their infancy when Hamilton began her career, computer science and software engineering were not yet disciplines. Programmers often came from math backgrounds and learned on the job. As Hamilton put it, “there was no choice but to be pioneers.”  Ever the innovator, Hamilton coined the term “software engineering” while working on the Apollo project.  “I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it—and those building it—would be given due respect. I began to use the term ‘software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline,” she explained.  Building on her Apollo work, Hamilton founded two companies—Higher Order Software (HOS) in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986.  Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, saying, “Her example speaks of the American spirit of discovery that exists in every little girl and little boy who know that somehow, to look beyond the heavens is to look deep within ourselves—and to figure out just what is possible.”   Music: This episode contains music by Geovane Bruno, Toma Mutiu, and Alex Chernykh.   Sources: American Experience. (2019, June 3). The Women Who Brought Us the Moon. American Experience | PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-women-who-brought-us-moon/ Cameron, L. (2020, August 11). First Software Engineer. IEEE Computer Society. https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/events/what-to-know-about-the-scientist-who-invented-the-term-software-engineering/ Corbyn, Z. (2019, July 16). Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn't.' The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women George, A. (2019, March 14). Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/ Hamilton, M. H. (n.d.). Margaret H. Hamilton Quotes. Citatis.Com. https://citatis.com/a7438/ Matthews, D. (2019, July 17). Margaret Hamilton: the Apollo software engineer who saved the moon landing. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software McMillan, R. (2015, October 13). Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ NASA. (2003, September 3). Margaret Hamilton. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11Hamilton.html Obama, B. (2016, November 23). Remarks by the President at Presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Whitehouse.Gov. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/22/remarks-president-presentation-presidential-medal-freedom Senkal, M. (2020, May 20). History of Computer Girls, Part 2: Margaret! Metal Toad. https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/history-computer-girls-part-2-margaret Wikipedia contributors. (2021, November 23). Margaret Hamilton (software engineer). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)  

What a fascinating conversation Melanie Boylan recently had with Keith Wichman. A special opportunity has opened up for this US competition with NASA Convergent Aeronautics and they have cast a very wide net for people of all ages, ranges of knowledge and either in a group or as an individual to come back with their Aviation and Aeronautics ideas and solutions. Listen in for full details and learn what types of industries they would love to hear from. To accept the challenge, visit herox.com/FutureScaping Keith D. Wichman: Leader of NASA's Convergent Aeronautics Solutions - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Keith returned to NASA this year after 24 years in industry. He was brought back to lead the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Project within NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. He started his career with 12 years of Flight Research in Flight Controls and Handling Qualities at NASA Armstrong. Since then, he has worked Reusable-Launch-Vehicle reentry guidance, control, and simulation at Draper Laboratory. Keith led technology development for Avionics and Air-Traffic Management for General Electric Aviation and was GE's Flight Management Systems Chief Engineer. During this time, he was expatriated for two years to Europe, operating from Toulouse, France as a delegate for various European Commission Air-Traffic Management projects. Migrating to the business side of product and technology development, Keith was immersed in merger and acquisition efforts for aviation-services businesses at GE. Then, for 8 years before his return to NASA, Keith was a business-unit and customer-experience leader for a small, airline operations-efficiencies software company. Keith holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan respectively. He is an instrument-rated Commercial Pilot and was a Certified Flight Instructor for 10 years.

There is no shortage of predictions about how advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics will possibly see humans replaced in all kinds of jobs. Technological advances in artificial intelligence have certainly made it possible to use robotics and automate many jobs that previously could only be done by a human. Despite fears or questions about robots taking over, human brainpower will still be necessary. Realistically, instead of destroying entire jobs and creating completely new robot-led occupations AI and automation will most likely more change what activities people focus on in their work and perhaps share with AI-driven robots. According to McKinsey, given currently demonstrated technologies, very few occupations—less than 5 percent—are candidates for full automation. However, almost every occupation has partial automation potential, and a proportion of its activities could be automated. McKinsey estimates that about half of all the activities people are paid to do in the world’s workforce could potentially be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies. That amounts to almost $15 trillion in wages. Depending on the job and the area of application, humans and robots can work together with varying degrees of collaboration. Industry calls this “human-robot collaboration.” This collaboration is defined as: Coexistence: Humans and robots work in adjacent workspaces without safety fencing. They do not, however, share a common workspace and work independently of one another on different tasks. Cooperation: In human-robot cooperation, humans and robots work in the same workspace. They work alternately on different tasks within a process. There is no direct interaction. Collaboration: Humans and robots interact in a shared workspace. For example, the robot passes something to the human operator, or they simultaneously perform different tasks on the same work. Today’s guests Laura Major and Julie Shah have dedicated their careers to this idea of advanced human-robot interaction. Laura Major is CTO of Motional (previously Hyundai-Aptiv Autonomous Driving Joint Venture), where she leads the development of autonomous vehicles. Previously, she led the development of autonomous aerial vehicles at CyPhy Works and a division at Draper Laboratory. Major has been recognized as a national Society of Women Engineers Emerging Leader. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Julie Shah is a roboticist at MIT and an associate dean of social and ethical responsibilities of computing. She directs the Interactive Robotics Group in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. She was a Radcliffe fellow, has received an National Science Foundation Career Award, and has been named one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have co-authored the book WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING ROBOTS, introducing us to the revolutionary idea of human-robot collaboration. They believe that next generation of robots won’t be limited to specific tasks like your Roomba and Alexa are right now. They will be able to drive on roads, deliver goods, stock shelves, and coordinate teams of nurses and doctors. These advanced machines will work with us, not just for us.

Can ONE question change your life? My guest for Life on Purpose Episode #94 is award-winning author, yoga therapist, and spiritual coach Jennie Lee, who believes the answer is yes. Jennie is passionate about helping people to create lives filled with purpose and joy. She joined me to discuss her brand new book Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution (just published by Sounds True), in which she brings her practice home to readers everywhere by providing the tools to strengthen our psychological resilience through the process of conscious, introspective questioning. "The question is, 'How do I keep the flame of personal evolution toward LOVE alive in my heart?' And 'how do I ignite the spark of spiritual awakening in others?'" says Jennie. About Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution Change is on everyone’s mind, but the first step toward any change begins within your own consciousness. In SPARK CHANGE: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution, Jennie Lee provides a 12-phase personal inquiry process to strengthen your vision of what change is needed and how you can accomplish it pro-actively with clarity and courage. Through 108 introspective questions, you will learn to listen to your soul and determine what life is calling you to learn or express. Whether examining attitudes that hold you back, or investigating your true purpose, these guided inquiries will help build the psychological resilience necessary to accomplish change from the deepest reaches of spiritual consciousness. Inspired by the source teachings of classical yoga, the principles of spiritual psychology, and her own inner journey, SPARK CHANGE delves into some of the most enduring questions of psychology, self-improvement, and the spiritual path. In the book, readers will find: • Self-reflection questions on 12 essential themes for personal transformation • Strategies to move beyond limitation into potential • Help identifying authentic purpose and how to put it into action • Inspiration for implementing conscious change pro-actively • Prompts to greater clarity, courage, and conviction • Ideas for meaningful conversations and creative solutions About Jennie Lee: Jennie Lee is the author of three award-winning books on spiritual living, meditation, and yoga: Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution, Breathing Love: Meditation in Action, and True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment. Her writing has also been featured internationally in magazines such as Mantra Wellness, Light of Consciousness, Yoga Therapy Today and many more. Her essay on the meaning of life was featured in the book Love by Nicolae Tanase. Jennie is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) who is passionate about helping people to create lives filled with purpose and joy. She has been in private practice for over twenty years. In her counseling, she blends the universal ideals and practices of Eastern philosophy with the needs and challenges of modern Western living. Her coaching is based on studies in spiritual psychology, yoga philosophy, and body-centered psychotherapy. The diversity of professionals who have entrusted Jennie with their personal growth speaks to her ability to effectively touch a wide range of individuals. Doctors, lawyers, psychologists, celebrity actors, internationally acclaimed authors, military officers, and more have experienced positive change through working with her. In addition to individual coaching, she has worked with management groups at corporations such as the World Surf League, National Association for Professional Women, Draper Laboratory, Prudential Locations Realty, and the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center and made presentations on yoga, meditation, and mindfulness at studios, schools, and festivals nationwide. When she is not writing or coaching, you will find Jennie surfing in Hawai’i or doing headstands on the tops of mountains, making her husband very nervous. Visit her online at www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com. ###

On this weeks episode of C-Suite Success Radio, your host and executive coach Sharon Smith interviews Jothy Rosenberg, CEO of Dover Microsystems a commercial spinoff from Draper Laboratory in Cambridge Massachusetts. Jothy shares inspiration from his life and we discuss his real pride and joy, his memoir called Who Says I Can’t that recounts how he used extreme sports to recover from two bouts with cancer, an amputation, and having a lung removed, all as a teenager when he was also told he had zero chance of survival.  You will learn how Jothy defines success and the lessons he has learned to help you gain the edge you are looking for.  Jothy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jothy/ Who Says I Can't (book) https://whosaysicant.org/shop/book-who-says-i-cant-2nd-autographed Who Says I Can't Foundation https://whosaysicant.org/ Dover Microsystems https://dovermicrosystems.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeffrey Borenstein of Draper Laboratory speaks to Cambridge Healthtech Institute on May 9, 2016. Dr. Borenstein will present during the 3D Cellular Models meeting, part of the World Preclinical Congress, June 14-17 in Boston, Massachusetts. Topics include promising methods for recapitulating the in vivo microenvironment in 3D cell culture models, microfluidic technologies for multiplexed and interacting organ models, microsystems-based approaches for organ assist devices and organ models for drug efficacy and safety testing, and Draper Lab’s resources for that research. For more information, please visit http://www.WorldPreclinicalCongress.com/

Today on Next Gen Now Rudina Seseri is joined by Neil Gupta, Deputy Program Manager on Draper Laboratory’s Venture Engagement Team.  They discuss virtual reality and how it is different from augmented reality, as well as how large the market opportunity is and several other points.

Evolving space suit designs look nothing like what you're used to - but they might keep you healthier in space, as well as on Earth!

With support from NASA's NIAC program, Draper Laboratory and MIT are prototyping advanced biosuits that could keep future astronauts strong