Metaverse is not a new concept, but it is recently generating lots of buzz as new metaverse games and applications advance in hardware capabilities and software techniques to provide superior experiences. Gaming serves as a big driver, but we are also starting to see innovative applications in education, retail, healthcare, and more. Join us for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 metaverse is already here — but in such early, limited forms that it may be difficult for some to understand and imagine just how powerful and revolutionary it can—and will—be. Matthew Ball’s new book, "The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything,” is designed to open our minds to the possibilities and prepare us […]
Space has captivated our imaginations since the dawn of humankind. Our gaze, enhanced by evolving technologies, has increased our understanding of the cosmos but also our world and our place in the Universe. Through increasingly capable telescopes and a better understanding of this data, we have greatly expanded human knowledge and appreciation of our world […]
Technology advances play a role in accelerating essentially every part of the healthcare spectrum: from basic life sciences research to translational and clinical research, to clinical healthcare and hospital best practices, to individual digital health and population health education. The COVID pandemic has raised general societal awareness of contagion transmissibility, epidemic tracking, and vaccine development […]
Renewable carbon-neutral generation is now the least expensive means to produce electricity in the world. In West Texas alone, we can produce terawatt-hours of power through wind turbines and solar panels. The question is no longer how do we generate sustainable energy, but how do we leverage its power efficiently and economically. This question is […]
In this talk, Steve will give an introduction to AI for non-practitioners and then highlight current use cases in computer vision, natural language processing, time series forecasting, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and recommender systems where AI-based systems are already performing well or offer significant promise to do so in the near future. Some key examples […]
As Covid pandemic measures have pushed people and businesses increasingly online and remote, cybercriminals have pivoted as well, exploiting weaknesses in these technologies. Always a present threat, today's exploits are now automated, pushing us to automate our defense as well. Many threats — even if larger in scale — remain the same. Phishing, credential re-use, […]
