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The IQT Podcast explores and offers insight about rapidly evolving technology trends and their impact and contributions to national security. Subscribe to hear from IQT and other thought leaders across a variety of tech domains, including AI and machine learning, biotechnology, autonomous systems, and more. IQT identifies, adapts, and delivers technology solutions from commercial startups to support the national security missions of the U.S. and its allies. Learn more at www.iqt.org.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
How can we prepare for, and combat, infectious disease outbreaks? B.Next’s Kevin O’Connell and Dylan George join the podcast to discuss the epidemiology, diagnostic tools, and testing surrounding COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. B.Next works at the intersection of biotechnology, innovation, and public health. The team is tackling the challenge that we, the world, is facing today. Note, this podcast was recorded on 3/20/20.
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
There’s a lot of talk about self-driving cars, yet autonomy includes far more than cars. There's a great amount of interest and development in autonomous delivery, which offers solutions that transport goods or people either in air, land, or water. This episode covers the autonomous delivery landscape, who is working on it, and what to expect in the coming years.
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
With geospatial technologies and 3D data collection platforms like LiDAR and photogrammetry becoming more mainstream, the pieces of a larger tech confluence are already in place and starting to augment our daily lives. This episode dives into spatial computing and how 3D data is used to create digital scaffolds of machine and human readable information for autonomous systems, mixed reality platforms, and beyond.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is baked into virtually every modern software application we use. From automatic spam filters in your email account, to recommending movies to watch on Netflix or products to buy from Amazon, AI is pervasive in consumer applications. This episode discusses the rise of AI devices, how far they've come, and what the future might hold for the technology.
This podcast originally aired in May 2019 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
This episode explores the field of data science and privacy and how laws like GDPR are changing the market and technology landscape.
This podcast originally aired in April 2019 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Can futuristic technology depicted in pop culture come to fruition? This episode explores the technology behind the popular “Black Mirror” episode, “Nosedive”, and aspects of ethical decision making.
This podcast originally aired in February 2019 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
IQT’s Lab41 discusses how reinforcement learning can be used to train an autonomous agent to play their all-time favorite 1st person shooter video game: Doom! Listen in as they discuss some of the mechanics behind training the agent and interesting issues that arise when trying to optimize the agent.
This podcast originally aired in January 2019 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
The Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) corpus is a creative commons speech dataset targeting acoustically challenging and reverberant environments with robust labels and truth data for transcription, denoising, and speaker identification. This episode discusses the importance of open data and what AWS and Lab41 (an IQT Lab) are doing with open data research and analytics.
This podcast originally aired in January 2019 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Nature.com describes synthetic biology as the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems…and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. This episode explores the evolution of synthetic biology, including how it’s used and what we could expect in the future.
This podcast originally aired in December 2018 and some content may be dated.
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Why is synthetic data important to certain kinds of machine learning applications? This episode dives into the technology trends and circumstances associated with the rise of synthetic data.
This podcast originally aired in November 2018 and some content may be dated.