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At the STAN (Society, Technology, Art and Nature) event in 2011, Ng spoke about his work with autonomous helicopters. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 5, 2019

Andrew Ng: Deep learning has created a sea change in robotics

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Salomon Trujillo, John Ulmen, Alan Asbeck, and Cutkosky observe the Stickybot III in a trial run on a glass surface. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

Mark Cutkosky: The work in my lab centers around bio-inspired robots

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Lentink holds an example of the models his students are making to simulate birds in flight. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

David Lentink: We want to fly anywhere, regardless of turbulence

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The underlying principles behind flight at extreme speeds could help propel people across the globe or to distant planets. | iStock/sweetandsour

Feb 27, 2019

It’s a bird...It’s a plane...It’s hypersonic flight

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

What if all human rights and advocacy organizations had their own in-house data scientists? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Megan Price: The role of data science in the fight for human rights

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

What can be done to identify, audit and amend biases in data and algorithms? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Jennifer Chayes: Fairness, transparency and ethics in data science

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

When done right, data science can contribute to optimizing online retail experiences. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Sonu Durgia: The role of data science in e-commerce

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

What are the latest trends in data science and genetics? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Chiara Sabatti: Data science and the study of the human genome

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

How does data analysis come into play in the world of data storage? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Janet George: The multifaceted world of data storage

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Let’s talk about skills that are transferrable across disciplines. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Elena Grewal: Airbnb data scientist shares her nonlinear career path

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

What are you studying? Could you apply data science to your research, too? | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 20, 2019

Eileen and Nilah: Data science research, from seismology to genomics

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

What policies should democracies have concerning individuals who give money away for public purposes? | Stocksy/Juan Moyano

Feb 14, 2019

Rob Reich: Is it time to rethink philanthropy?

Health, Technology & Society

How did Estonia become a leader in cybersecurity and uses of the internet for processes of democracy? | iStock/bgblue

Feb 11, 2019

Toomas Ilves: Lessons in digital democracy from Estonia

Technology & Society

Are there better or worse ways to deal with the black markets for heroin, prostitution, etc.? | iStock/RichVintage

Jan 23, 2019

Repugnant markets spur thinking about how to engineer complex systems

Technology & Society

There is a tension emerging between free speech and the regulation of social media sites. | iStock/Kubkoo

Jan 10, 2019

Alex Stamos: How do we preserve free speech in the era of fake news?

Security, Technology & Society

How could machine learning enable hospitals and doctors to make more informed decisions and improve care? | Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

Jan 9, 2019

Nigam Shah: Artificial intelligence transforms health care

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

The intricacies of languages are hard to learn even for human children and non-native speakers. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jan 7, 2019

Is language the ultimate frontier of AI research?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

How will companies manage the positive and negative impacts of artificial intelligence in the hiring process? | Reuters/Mike Segar

Jan 7, 2019

Adina Sterling: How will artificial intelligence change hiring?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Grab a warm drink and a cozy spot on the couch and dive into one of these books. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Dec 19, 2018

An end-of-year reading list from Stanford Engineering

Technology & Society

Researchers are developing specific and unexpected recommendations for how to survive and thrive in entrepreneurial settings. | iStock/pressureUA

Dec 6, 2018

There is more to the lean startup model than is seen at first glance

Technology & Society

Is there less trust and more deception today or does it just seem that way? | Unsplash/Noah Buscher

Dec 3, 2018

Can we tell truth from fiction in the age of social media?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The technology translates motor cortex signals into point-and-click commands. | Image courtesy of The BrainGate Collaboration

Nov 29, 2018

Patients with paralysis use brain signals to operate a tablet

Health, Technology & Society

An artist’s illustration shows the InSight lander on Mars. | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Nov 28, 2018

Q&A: The InSight and MarCO satellites land on Mars

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Factors including financial capital, a healthy workforce and political will contribute to a region's resilience. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Nov 27, 2018

Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society