366: All the Wrong Tools
03/18/21 • 59 min
Laurel Cummings (@justblamelaurel) teaches people how to build what is required with the material on hand. We talked with her about how to engineer survival solutions on-the-fly, often while performing disaster relief. Also: what could be made with chewing gum and paper clips.
Laurel works at Building Momentum (buildmo.com). They are currently hiring.
Laurel spoke at SuperCon 2019 about Austere Engineering.
Laurel Cummings (@justblamelaurel) teaches people how to build what is required with the material on hand. We talked with her about how to engineer survival solutions on-the-fly, often while performing disaster relief. Also: what could be made with chewing gum and paper clips.
Laurel works at Building Momentum (buildmo.com). They are currently hiring.
Laurel spoke at SuperCon 2019 about Austere Engineering.
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365: Barbed Wire Fence and Great WiFi
Cy Keener spoke with us about sensors, Arduinos, ice, and the crossover between art and science.
You can see some of his field work and gallery installations at his site: cykeener.com and on his vimeo channel. Cy is an art professor at the University of Maryland (bio, youtube)
Cy’s advisor at Stanford was Paul DeMarinis (pauldemarinis.org, Stanford page).
Arduiniana: a blog of useful Arduino libraries
We also talked about some custom sensors by Lovro Valcic of Bruncin (bruncin.com).
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367: Data of Our Lives
Dr. Ayanna Howard (@robotsmarts, wiki) spoke with us about sex, race, and robots.
Ayanna’s Audible book is Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI. You can see more of her research from her Google Scholar page.
Find some best practices and tools for reducing bias AI:
- Partnership on AI
- AI Fairness 360 (IBM)
- Model Cards (Google)
Ayanna has recently moved from being Professor and Department Chair at Georgia Tech to be Dean of Engineering at The Ohio State University. Her current favorite robot is Pepper.
Ayanna spoke more about her robotics and trust research on Embedded 207: I Love My Robot Monkey Head (transcript).
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