Carl Wieman: learning rewires the brain — MRI imaging shows a trained radiologist reading an X-ray activates the brain in a completely different way than a medical student just learning to.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

#AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

Jeff Dean: build tools that run an experiment "in a minute or an hour instead of a day or a week," then run thousands in parallel and let the results pick the next ones.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA

#AASF #JeffDean #AIResearch

Fei-Fei Li: as a grad student she didn't know if she could make it as a scientist — she was still running her family's dry-cleaner shop. No one guaranteed the outcome; passion, resilience and conviction carried her through. #AASF #FeiFeiLi #WomenInSTEM

Terence Tao: he and Nets Katz released a roadmap to the Kakeya conjecture 10–15 years ago — it sat there until his former students Hong Wang and Josh Zahl completed it.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64
#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Jay Xu, co-chair of the National APA Museum Commission: a national museum can place Asian American pioneers' stories in their full historical context and share them with the entire nation.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

Chuan He: expressing the human gene FTO in rice doubled biomass and yield in the greenhouse, with a 20–40% yield gain in real field tests.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3ezI1Iuhg

#AASF #ChuanHe #PlantScience

Liang Jiang: the best medium to send a photon is not material, it's vacuum — refocus the beam with a lens every few kilometers and a single photon could cross the continent.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY
#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumCommunication

Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #OpticalTweezers

Jin-Yi Cai on the 1994 moment Peter Shor showed a quantum algorithm could factor large integers efficiently - the problem whose presumed difficulty underpins public key cryptography.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijjSGwB6Ek
#AASF #JinYiCai #QuantumComputing

Carl Wieman: same instructors, same intro CS course — switching from lectures to research-based teaching cut drop-and-failure rates to about a third of before.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpKrp87SHE

#AASF #CarlWieman #ScienceEducation

Jeff Dean on his new public benefit corporation: distribute its scientific discoveries as widely as possible, even when that is not in the company's financial interest.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC3xOZChdA

#AASF #JeffDean #OpenScience

Fei-Fei Li: the robot that has gone further than any other is the car — around for 100 years, and Tesla and Waymo's decades of driving data are now bearing fruit. #AASF #FeiFeiLi #Robotics

Terence Tao on compressed sensing: he thought they had cheated, like solving a crossword from 3 or 4 clues, until he found the loophole that now underlies MRI machines.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOMM8HrT64

#AASF #TerenceTao #Mathematics

Jay Xu, co-chair of the National APA Museum Commission: listening sessions in 20 cities and hundreds of comments gathered ahead of the commission's October report to Congress.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFnX84t4_U

#AASF #JayXu #NationalAPAMuseum

Liang Jiang: solving an elliptic-curve crypto scheme takes about half a million superconducting qubits for 20 minutes, or tens of thousands of atomic qubits over a few days.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edssYqFozY

#AASF #LiangJiang #QuantumComputing

Steven Chu on laser cooling: his boss Chuck Shank told him he had earned the right to try — but it wouldn't work. Within a year, it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #Physics

Steven Chu: AI's energy and learning vs. the human brain. Did you know children master complex skills with vastly less data and energy than AI? It's a powerful lesson in efficiency.

#AI #HumanBrain #Learning #AASF #StevenChu

Jeff Dean talked about building a multimodal AI from scratch. Combining expertise, ideas, and resources to train one model that understands text, code, images, and more. A foundation for everything.

#AI #MultimodalAI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #AASF