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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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Flying On the Road, with Untitled Motorcycles Co-Founder Hugo Eccles

Hugo Eccles grew up with a “petrol-head” amateur race car driver dad who ignited his passion for cars and motorcycles. When Eccles wasn’t “running wild” in the bucolic English countryside, he sketched cars with his grandmother, the prelude to his…

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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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Next Generation Flying, with Tamarack Aerospace Group’s Jacob Klinginsmith

Growing up in the shadow of Boeing in Seattle in the early aughts, Jacob Klinginsmith was destined for a career in aeronautics. From the age of fifteen, he was the “default autopilot” in his grandfather’s Cessna, racking up flight miles…

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