The Future of Everything
Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide to the latest science and engineering breakthroughs. Join Russ and his guests as they explore cutting-edge advances that are shaping the future of everything from AI to health and renewable energy. Along the way, “The Future of Everything” delves into ethical implications to give listeners a well-rounded understanding of how new technologies and discoveries will impact society. Whether you’re a res...
Episodes (1057)
The impact of income gaps on children’s health
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The crucial role of data compression
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Regenerating and rejuvenating human tissues
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Why AI must embody the values of its users
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A more thoughtful approach to technology can improve medical care
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How do you build a better robot? By understanding people.
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James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care
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Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth
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Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better
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Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy
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Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science
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Chelsea Finn: How to make artificial intelligence more meta
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Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world
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Kuang Xu: How to make (and keep) genetic data private
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Eric Appel: Gels are changing the face of engineering ... and medicine
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Lianne Kurina: How controlling confounders makes better epidemiology
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Priyanka Raina: How computer chips get speedier through specialization
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Biondo Biondi: How to measure an earthquake through the internet
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Emmanuel Candès: How to increase certainty in predictive modeling
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Srabanti Chowdhury: New forms of semiconductors are key to the future
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Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future?
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Irene Lo: How math makes markets fairer
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Joseph DeSimone: How 3D printing is changing medicine
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Tina Hernandez-Boussard: How data improves the quality of health care
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Nate Persily: How to restore faith in America’s elections
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Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis
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Sam Wineburg: How to improve American students’ fact-checking skills
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Julie Parsonnet: How faith in herd immunity may be misplaced
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Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing
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Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical
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Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric
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Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular
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Catherine Gorle: How cityscapes catch the wind
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Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide
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Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic
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Julie Owono: How local voices will shape the global internet
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Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language
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Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation
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David Miller: How light could transform computing
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Jin Hyung Lee: How can we systematically cure brain diseases?
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Mark Schnitzer: How to better understand the brain
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Mutale Nkonde: How to get more truth from social media
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Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world
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Jef Caers: How better mineral exploration makes better batteries
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Evan Reed: How to discover a magic material
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Renée DiResta: How to beat bad information
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Will Tarpeh: How to take the waste out of wastewater
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Kwabena Boahen: How to build a super-efficient super-computer
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Daphne Koller: How machine learning is transforming drug discovery
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Markus Covert: How to build a computer model of a cell
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