Technologies play increasingly key roles in making life more entertaining, more enjoyable--more fun! Yes, they were critical in enabling us to work safely during a pandemic (and helped us mitigate it with vaccines!), but life is about more than work—and even ‘work’ should be more fun, for employees and for customers. Join us for this […]
The Austin Forum online book discussions--and new activity inspired by our adoption of Zoom and desire to include anyone regardless of location--have been a big success! For this month's online discussion, instead of discussing, dissecting, and debating the societal implications of technology in one book, we'll ask everyone to share their favorite recent books on […]
The Austin Forum online book discussions--and new activity inspired by our adoption of Zoom and desire to include anyone regardless of location--have been a big success! For this month's online discussion, instead of discussing, dissecting, and debating the societal implications of technology in one book, we'll ask everyone to share their favorite recent books on […]
Jay Boisseau and Jay Williams are back for their annual discussion of the emerging and maturing technologies poised to have much greater impacts on industry and work, research and education, health, entertainment, transportation, and more in 2023 (and maybe a bit later, but still soon!). As always, they will share their views and other tech […]
Being able to simulate physical processes with high fidelity on powerful computers is important to research, design, manufacturing, and more, across fields and domains. Likewise, being able to visualize data and simulations helps us humans understand, trust, and share information and understanding. We are now seeing these methods combined, in 'digital twins,' which are models […]
For our February monthly online book discussion, Austin Forum board member, Julie Tomlin, will lead us in a conversation about the novel Sea of Tranquility. From the perspectives of three different characters in three different time periods, Emily St. John Mandel explores metaphysics and time travel through the threads that intertwine these characters. This book […]
Today’s financial markets are deeply dependent on technology to improve their function and enable expanded access to all participants. But why is technology so fundamental to modern markets? In this month’s Austin Forum, Optiver’s Scott Richardson and Luke Wilson will walk us through the role of financial markets in today’s society and how technologies, like […]
For our March monthly online book discussion, Austin Forum board member and AMD Senior Fellow, Mike Ignatowski, will lead us in a conversation about the book “Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.” In this historical account that reads like a thriller, Chris Miller brings context to the current state of microchip […]
The 2013 movie “Her” is a wonderful science fiction movie about AI having evolved to the point of general intelligence, even sentience. There are no robotics in this AI movie—it is all about the powerful but human-like AI capabilities of his “OS.” “Her” is inspiring and thought-provoking but represents a realistically still far away or […]
Join our AI and whiskey experts for another “AI & Whiskey Chat” as we collectively catch up on the latest important and cool developments and news in the field of AI—and do so while sampling and discussing some really good whiskey! Novices are welcome, but the discussion may evolve towards more advanced topics as the […]
