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