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Paula Bejarano

The Future of Autonomous Trucking, with Paula Bejarano

Autonomous trucking will soon transform not just our freeways but the entire global supply chain. But serious issues of safety, workforce changes, and policy remain. Currently the Director of Business Development at trucking giant Navistar, Paula Bejarano knows better than…

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Smarter Buildings Saving Energy … and the Planet, with Mark Chung

Mark Chung had checked off all the boxes in a successful career. Status, power, money: he had them all in his corporate engineering job. Until one day, he wanted more. Working for a single company wasn’t going to help solve…

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Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction, with Carlos Moreira

The promise of technical advancement brings new risks. For all the wonders of artificial intelligence, robotics, genetic engineering, quantum computing, and other leaps into the “fourth industrial revolution,” malicious actors abound. Facebook’s algorithms manipulate users. Uber’s code shortchanges drivers. Scammers…

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Miko Matsumura and others at Crypto Underground event

Crypto Degenerates and the Future of NFTs

Last week’s Crypto Underground extravaganza promised to predict the future of Web3: “NFTs: Punks vs Apes or Punks and Apes – Where is it all going?” Drinks and hors d’oeuvres were free and plentiful as the crowd of 200 began…

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