Appearances, talks, news articles, other notable events.
- 4/27/2023 Workshop lead for AI disinformation track, Responsible AI Leadership: A Global Summit on Generative AI, World Economic Forum, San Francisco.
- 4/24/2023 Invited talk and workshop, AI and the Barrier of Meaning, Santa Fe Institute.
- 4/18/2023 O’Reilly Releases Courses, Content, and Live Events on Large Language Models and ChatGPT, Yahoo Finance.
- 4/13/2023 Sharing Google’s Med-PaLM 2 medical large language model, or LLM.
- 4/2/2023 What’s Stopping Us Achieving Artificial General Intelligence? | Issue 155 | Philosophy Now.
- 3/27/2023 Pope Francis urges ethical use of artificial intelligence — Vatican News.
- 3/13/2023 Invited talk, Army Research Laboratory workshop: Engineering Consciousness to the Cellular Level.
- 3/8/2023 Invited speaker, Sequence modeling and consciousness, Tracing the links between Cognition, Consciousness, and AI, followed by panel discussion with Gillian Hadfield, Melanie Mitchell, Megan Peters, and Yoshua Bengio at Mila Quebec Institute, Montreal.
- 3/4/2023 Misplaced fears of an ‘evil’ ChatGPT obscure the real harm being done | John Naughton | The Guardian.
- 3/1/2023 Invited speaker, International Titisee Conference on NeuroAI — connecting advances in machine learning and neuroscience, Titisee, Germany.
- 2/20/2023 Lecture at the Berggruen Institute on Synthetic Intelligence.
- 1/31/2023 Transformations of the Human lecture, AI and Language.
- 1/27/2023 MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.
- 1/17/2023 In conversation with Lawrence Weschler at The Hammer Museum, LA.
- 12/26/2022 [2212.13138] Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge.
- 12/15/2022 Up on arXiv, [2212.07677] Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent.
- 11/16/2022 Interviewed for CNN’s Decoding artificial intelligence.
- 11/14/2022 Guest at the Berggruen Institute’s Antikythera program (Recursive Simulation).
- 11/7/2022 Participant, Schmidt Futures AI2050 program.
- 10/30/2022 Ubi Sunt at Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University, Vancouver.
- 10/20/2022 Ubi Sunt at Village Books, Bellingham.
- 10/15/2022 Contributed chapter to Surrealism and Design Now: From Dalí to AI, Design Museum, London.
- 10/13/2022 Plenary opening panelist at World Summit AI, Amsterdam.
- 9/29/2022 Invited talk at the Centre for Information Policy Leadership Annual Executive Retreat, Washington DC.
- 9/27/2022 Invited talk at NeuroAI in Seattle, AI: where did it come from, what is it now and where is it going?
- 9/24/2022 Invited talk at Interspecies.io, Can machines learn how to behave?
- 9/18/2022 1011 Theses on the concept of nonhuman intelligence, on Medium.
- 9/9/2022 Evening lecture at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain: Foundations of Intelligence.
- 9/8/2022 Release of AudioLM.
- 8/25/2022 Public LaMDA availability in the AI Test Kitchen.
- 8/25/2022 SciFoo special session: Language Models and AI Value Alignment.
- 8/19/2022 Federated Select: A Primitive for Communication- and Memory-Efficient Federated Learning.
- 8/16/2022 On The Economist’s Babbage podcast: Will AI Achieve Consciousness?
- 8/3/2022 Can machines learn how to behave?, on Medium.
- 8/1/2022 Contributing author, Collaborative Intelligence, MIT Press (forthcoming).
- 7/30/2022 Ubi Sunt: watchmaker’s notes, on Medium.
- 7/19/2022 Guest lecture, The second golden decade of AI, at the Summer Science Program in genomics.
- 7/17/2022 Ubi Sunt at San Francisco Art Book Fair (with James Goggin).
- 7/14/2022 How close are we to AI? with Melanie Mitchell at Town Hall, Seattle.
- 7/12/2022 The Model is the Message, on Noēma (with Benjamin Bratton).
- 7/9/2022 Interspecies Futures Symposium, Berlin.
- 7/2/2022 Invited lecture at the International Science School (ISS).
- 7/1/2022 Contributing author, Good Technology, a book by Good Robot (forthcoming).
- 6/26/2022 AI: LaMDA, the machine that is like ‘a seven-year-old kid’: can a computer have consciousness? in El País.
- 6/22/2022 Artificial Intelligence in Action (AIIA) keynote: The Ethics of Foundation Models.
- 6/21/2022 Invited lecture for The Terraforming, Strelka Institute-in-exile.
- 6/14/2022 Is it possible for AI to achieve sentience? | The Week UK.
- 6/9/2022 By Invitation on The Economist: Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness, according to Blaise Agüera y Arcas.
- 6/6/2022 On Interspecies Future podcast: Interspecies thinking: AI and collective intelligence.
- 6/1/2022 Panelist at Asia Tech x AI on AI in 2030, Singapore.
- 5/3/2022 On The Good Robot podcast: Blaise Agüera y Arcas on Debunking Myths in Technology: Intelligence, Survival, Sexuality.
- 5/1/2022 Shortened version of Do large language models understand us? in AI edition of Daedalus, Vol. 151 Issue 2, MIT Press.
- 4/29/2022 Invited talk, A Multiscale Social Model of Intelligence, and panel discussion at ICLR workshop, From Cells to Societies: Collective Learning Across Scales.
- 4/20/2022 Panel: A conversation with Yann LeCun (Facebook), Yoshua Bengio (Mila Quebec), and Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google Research), moderated by Kathinka Evers (HBP), Paris.
- 4/19/2022 Plenary talk at closed workshop, Artificial intelligence, the brain and society, Paris.
- 4/7/2022 Plenary talk, From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
- 4/1/2022 Contributing author, Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (forthcoming).
- 4/1/2022 On The Good Robot podcast (forthcoming).
- 3/29/2022 On arXiv, [2203.15952] 4‑bit Conformer with Native Quantization Aware Training for Speech Recognition.
- 3/9/2022 On Forbes, A Look Inside Google’s New ‘Live Captions For Calls’ Accessibility Feature For Pixel.
- 3/3/2022 Featured on AI Tomorrow podcast: Flowers in a Pile of Carnage.
- 3/2/2022 Lovely review of Ubi Sunt by Charles Mudede, culture critic at The Stranger: Who Wrote This Beautiful Novella? Artificial Intelligence? Or One of Google’s Top AI Scientists?
- 2/15/2022 Launch of my novella, Ubi Sunt, from Hat & Beard Press.
- 2/7/2022 SHARK: The fastest PyTorch runtime – 3x over Torchscript, 1.6x over TF/XLA, 76% faster than ONNXRuntime.
- 1/25/2022 USC Seminar on Media Intelligence, hosted by Shri Narayanan.
- 1/19/2022 Interviewed for Carnegie Council Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative podcast: AI, Movable Type, & Federated Learning.
- 1/4/2022 IEEE Standard Association fireside chat: Standardization of Federated Machine Learning.
- 1/1/2022 Joining Singapore’s AI Ethics Council.
- 12/20/2021 How can we tell if artificial intelligence understands our language? — TechTalks.
- 12/16/2021 Do large language models understand us?, on Medium.
- 11/23/2021 University of Washington ECE Research Colloquium on AI with Moral Sentiments.
- 11/15/2021 CIPL/DCMS AI Roundtable on data protection.
- 11/10/2021 Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics Research using TFF.
- 11/8/2021 Interviewed for BBC4’s The Digital Human, Series 24: Taint.
- 11/4/2021 Panelist, Building an Ethical Algorithmic World, CAIDA, UBC. Video.
- 9/13/2021 Keynote, Parallel and Distributed Learning workshop at ECML/PKDD 2021.
- 9/9/2021 Announcement on the Google Security Blog of Android’s Private Compute Services.
- 9/3/2021 Evening lecture at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain.
- 9/1/2021 Guest talk at 42 Wolfsburg, Berlin.
- 7/22/2021 Task Force on American Innovation Future Forward panelist on AI.
- 6/15/2021 Guest Lecturer at Summer Science Program.
- 6/10/2021 Public lecture, Ethics in the Age of AI, Computational Neuroscience Center, UW, Seattle.
- 8/27/2021 Panelist at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Humanity + AI conference, Athens.
- 5/19/2021 Faculty lectures at Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming, Moscow.
- 5/15/2021 KUOW Board of Directors retreat, AI and the Media.
- 5/15/2021 AI Tomorrow podcast.
- 4/29/2021 Recommendations for responsible development and application of neurotechnologies, in Neuroethics.
- 3/28/2021 In conversation with Charles Mudede for MoM Sandwich.
- 3/23/2021 Interview on the Judgment Call podcast with Torsten Jacobi.
- 8/18/2020 Town Hall conversation with George Dyson on Analogia, Seattle. Video.
- 8/3/2020 CIFAR Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Summer School lecturer.
- 7/15/2020 Guest lecture on AI at the Summer Science Program.
- 6/22/2020 Keynote, Humanity and AI: a dialogue at the crossroads, Athens.
- 5/21/2020 Interview in the German pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
- 3/4/2020 Keynote on on-device intelligence at MLSys2020, Austin.
- 2/7/2020 Town Hall Gala, “Truth-Tellers” special event speaker, Seattle.
- 2/5/2020 Adrienne featured on the Stories of WiN (Women in Neuroscience) podcast.
- 1/20/2020 TWIML (This Week in ML) podcast episode on Social Intelligence.
- 1/2/2020 Announcement of the Coral Accelerator Module on Google Developers Blog.
- 12/19/2019 The On-Device Machine Learning Behind Recorder, on the Google AI blog.
- 12/11/2019 Keynote, Social Intelligence, at NeurIPS, Vancouver.
- 11/16/2019 Keynote, Evolving neural nets that learn on their own, at MAIN 2019, Montreal AI and Neuroscience.
- 11/13/2019 Google AI blog post on MobileNet V3 and MobileNetEdgeTPU.
- 11/9/2019 Invited talk, World Frontiers Forum, Berlin.
- 9/1/2019 Evening lecture at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain.
- 8/23/2019 Plenary talk at Seoul National University AI Policy Conference, Seoul.
- 7/31/2019 Lecture on AI and ethics at Neurohackademy, University of Washington.
- 7/1/2019 Keynote on AI at Almedalen Week, Visby, Sweden. Interview in Focus.
- 5/9/2019 Talk at Google I/O, Mountain View.
- 4/29/2019 Faculty at Strelka Institute, Moscow.
- 4/27/2019 Keynote at 2050 conference on machine creativity, Hangzhou.
- Spring 2019 Teaching CSE490T/CSE590T at University of Washington: Intelligent Machinery, Identity and Ethics.
- 3/28/2019 Automation and AI Event, Bellevue.
- 3/21/2019 Visualization workshop, computer graphics course, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
- 3/20/2019 The past, present and future of deep learning: perception in the real world, CCOM lecture to College of Natural Sciences, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
- 3/19/2019 Neuroscience, big data, and computing: a future history, Biology seminar, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
- 3/6/2019 Announcement of Coral TPU boards. The Verge, Hackster, 9to5Google, ZDNet, VentureBeat, BusinessInsider.
- 3/6/2019 Announcements of TensorFlow Privacy and TensorFlow Federated. Cnet, VentureBeat, Engadget.
- 3/4/2019 Joined Founding Board of the Information School (iSchool), University of Washington.
- 2/20/2019 Neurotech and AI: Do We Need New Human Rights?, Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels.
- 2/10/2019 Talk and panel at SocialxDesign conference, Harvard.
- 1/10/2019 Closing keynote at IEEE WACV 2019.
- 12/20/2018 Google AI blog post about Top Shot on the Pixel 3.
- 12/13/2018 First published ACM TechTalk, From Media to Meaning.
- 12/11/2018 Keynote at IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
- 12/6/2018 Google Translate takes major steps toward addressing gender bias in neural translation.
- 12/4/2018 Joint talk with Tony Greenwald on Implicit Bias and ML, Psychology Department, UW.
- 11/7/2018 Nature paper out on ML Epidemiology.
- 11/2/2018 Our UW AI ethics course is cited in the New York Times.
- 10/13/2018 Keynote at Data Science Leadership Summit, Park City, UT.
- 10/16/2018 Google blog post, Pixel 3 and on-device AI: Putting superpowers in your pocket.
- 10/9/2018 Launch of Pixel 3, including Call Protect and other AI features. Lots of nice tech press, e.g. cnet, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget.
- Fall 2018 Teaching CSE590/NEURO511 at University of Washington: Intelligent Machinery, Identity and Ethics.
- 9/20/2018 KUOW publishes Smoke Farm Symposium talks online.
- 9/20/2018 Panel on AI, Creativity, and Trust, Seattle Public Library.
- 9/14/2018 NYT Sunday Supplement, Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall is Technodreaming, on our AMI collaborator Refik Anadol’s WDCH Dreaming project with the LA Philharmonic.
- 9/8/2018 Talk at Smoke Farm Symposium, “Deep Faking the News”, Arlington, WA.
- 8/26/2018 Evening lecture at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain.
- 6/27/2018 Lecturing at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
- 6/18/2018 Keynote for Ethical Engineering workshop at UW, Seattle.
- 6/13/2018 Google announces the opening of an AI research center in Ghana.
- 6/7/2018 Google publishes AI Principles. Press coverage, e.g. Qz. Maven to stop.
- 6/7/2018 Google publishes Responsible AI Practices.
- 6/7/2018 Google AI blog post, “Realtime tSNE Visualizations with TensorFlow.js”
- 6/1/2018 Keynote on Responsible AI at InkTalks, KPMG India.
- 5/22/2018 Neuroethics session keynote at the 2018 Brain-Computer Interface meeting, Asilomar.
- 5/10/2018 Talk at Near Future Summit, La Jolla.
- 5/9/2018 Ethics and Technology workshop, Stanford.
- 4/20/2018 Speaker at Tamarind Institute’s Albuquerque Wonder Cabinet.
- 4/17/2018 Press coverage of AIY at The Verge, CNet , Engadget, etc.
- 4/16/2018 AIYVoice Kit and Vision Kitlaunch nationwide in Target’s new STEM aisle.
- 4/13/2018 Our Google developers blog post on bias in text embeddings.
- 4/4/2018 Kenric talks about AMI on Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human podcast.
- 4/3/2018 My boss John Giannandrea goes to Apple to lead their AI effort.
- 4/3/2018 Google Research blog on our new record-setting MobileNet v2 neural net.
- 3/18/2018 Plenary talk at Canonical Computation in Brains and Machines 2018, NYU.
- 3/17/2018 Panel at Brains and Machines Symposium, NYU.
- 3/2/2018 Wired’s Gadget Lab podcast does a great review of the Clips camera.
- 3/1/2018 Google Research blog about our new Landmarks open challenge dataset.
- 2/27/2018 The Clips camera goes on sale. Coverage at NYT, Wired, WaPo, many more.
- 2/15/2018 Olivier talks about Cloud + Edge AI silicon in EE Times.
- 2/1/2018 Launch of ML Fairness on Google Developers blog.
- 1/18/2018 Spoke at inauguration of new UW Computational Neuroscience Center.
- 1/11/2018 Posted Do algorithms reveal sexual orientation or just expose our stereotypes?
- 11/30/2017 The first run of our newAIY Vision Kit (more will be available soon).
- 11/29/2017 Now Playing paper up on arXiv (and demoed at NIPS).
- 11/28/2017 Return to Savage Lovecast to talk about algorithmic gaydar.
- 11/20/2017 Numerous reviews of Pixel 2’s Now Playing feature, e.g. here.
- 11/16/2017 Open letter to the DHS opposing the use of AI for Trump’s Extreme Vetting, picked up in the press (Intercept, The Hill, Seattle Times, Qz, Gizmodo, NYT, WaPo).
- 11/14/2017 Launch of TensorFlow Lite.
- 11/10/2017 Minigo, our open source implementation of AlphaGo Zero, up on GitHub.
- 11/8/2017 Nature comment, Four ethical considerations for neurotechnologies and AI.
- 11/7/2017 Promoted to Distinguished Scientist, Google Research & Machine Intelligence.
- 10/23/2017 AIY Projects mini-documentary on YouTube.
- 10/19/2017 Presenting at the French American Project, SF.
- 10/17/2017 Nice review of Pixel 2 in Wired, including shoutout to Now Playing.
- 10/4/2017 Many writeups of Clips including at The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, etc.
- 10/4/2017 Google Hardware launches, including our project, the Clips camera.
- 10/2/2017 Artists & Machine Intelligence (Kenric + Ben Vickers) in Cura Magazine #26.
- 9/29/2017 Art in the Age of Machine Intelligence published in an MDPI special issue.
- 9/26/2017 Closing talk at the PAIR Symposium, Cambridge, MA.
- 9/21/2017 Interview with AIY engineer James McLurkin on YouTube.
- 9/15/2017 Nice little writeup of AIY Voice Kit in Wired.
- 8/27/2017 Evening lecture at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain.
- 8/26/2017 Talk at 9th Smoke Farm Symposium, Arlington, WA.
- 8/25/2017 Google Research blog on ML Fairness.
- 7/10/2017 Talk and panel at AI Now Symposium, MIT Media Lab, Boston.
- 7/2/2017 Talk and panel at MI Day at Google Research, Tel Aviv.
- 6/27/2017 AI “Magic in the Machine” press events, Johannesburg and Nairobi.
- 6/15/2017 Google Research blog on TensorFlow Object Detection being open sourced.
- 6/14/2017 Google Research blog on MobileNets being open sourced.
- 5/25/2017 Speaking at AI Forum at C2: Ethical considerations for AI, Montréal.
- 5/22/2017 Neuroethics workshop at Columbia University, NY.
- 5/17/2017 Google.ai launched, headlining with Federated Learning.
- 5/6/2017 We post the Physiognomy’s New Clothes essay on Medium.
- 5/4/2017 Launch of AIY Projects (Google AI on Raspberry Pi).
- 4/20/2017 Opening of Refik Anadol’s SALT Archive Dreaming project with AMI.
- 4/20/2017 Talk at Princeton on AI, ethics, Federated Learning.
- 4/12/2017 Nice press coverage of FL at Verge, Vice, Forbes, Engadget, etc.
- 4/6/2017 We launch Federated Learning with a Google Research blog post.
- 3/13/2017 Keynote at UC Berkeley Neurotechnology conference, Berkeley.
- 3/10/2017 Artificial Creativity: Artists & MI interview in Cloudraker Magazine.
- 3/2/2017 National Art Education Association keynote, New York.
- 2/27/2017 Our team’s work on bias in Hollywood featured on google.com/about
- 2/20/2017 Intelligence Squared event (podcast here) with Daniel Dennett, UK.
- 2/14/2017 VOR Conference: Superinteligencias, Centro, Mexico City.
- 1/26/2017 Our AI on Raspberry Pi work written up by BBC.
- 1/13/2017 Interviewed on NPR’s To The Best of Our Knowledge.
- 11/21/2016 On the Magnum Edition of the Savage Lovecast!
- 11/15/2016 AI Interview in Hills Life Magazine, Tokyo.
- 11/10/2016 Keynote at SfN Neuron Symposium, San Diego.
- 11/2/2016 Keynote at Google Cultural Institute Art+MI workshop, Paris.
- 11/1/2016 AI debate at Silicon Valley comes to the UK, Cambridge.
- 10/19/2016 Keynote at Innovative City Forum, Tokyo.
- 9/27/2016 Keynote at Mobile Future Forward conference, Seattle.
- 9/24/2016 Keynote at grand opening of Switzerland’s Pier 17 in SF.
- 9/10/2016 NTC-Kavli Futures Symposium on Neuroethics, NY.
- 8/26/2016 Evening lecture and panel discussion (with Christof Koch and Pat Churchland) at Friday Harbor Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain on deep learning, DeepDream, and debiasing MI.
- 8/21/2016 Critic on the panel for Judy Wajcman’s book Pressed For Time, American Sociological Association annual conference, Seattle.
- 7/6/2016 We announce the acquisition of Moodstocks in Paris. Press.
- 6/25/2016 TEDSummit, AI and Economic Disruption, Banff.
- 6/5/2016 ooo Rome.
- 6/1/2016 Music, Art and Machine Intelligence (MAMI) event, San Francisco. Blog post, talk, press.
- 5/18/2016 TED talkHow computers are learning to be creative, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
- 5/12/2016 Invited speaker at NSF interdisciplinary workshop on the future of intelligent devices, Almaden, CA.
- 5/10/2016 Talk at the Oxford-Martin School in Oxford, UK. Video, photos, press.
- 4/12/2016 Talk at Disney Tech Days, Burbank, CA.
- 3/28/2016 Nice article about Artists & MI in The Guardian.
- 3/23/2016 Public lecture at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma.
- 2/29/2016 Nice article about our art show in Wired (and many more).
- 2/27/2016 Art & Machine Intelligence symposium at Gray Area.
- 2/26/2016 Gray Area Deep Dream show— first Art & Machine Intelligence event.
- 2/26/2016 Press about PlaNet, our deep network for visual place recognition.
- 2/25/2016 Invited lecture at Cosyne 2016.
- 2/23/2016 Artists & Machine Intelligence launch; art in the age of MI essay.
- 2/17/2016 Federated Learning of Deep Networks paper on Arxiv.
- 1/27/2016 Nuit des Idees, Quai d’Orsay, Paris. Press; Audrey Tang’s transcript.
- 1/27/2016 Press release with Movidius, some news, news.
- 1/14/2016 Invited talk at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle.
- 12/10/2015 Nice piece by Steven Levy, Inside Deep Dreams, about our work.
- 11/19/2015 Think NEXT keynote and entrepreneur gathering, Google Campus, Madrid.
- 11/11/2015 UIST Capstone talk, Charlotte NC.
- 11/4/2015 Nice machine intelligence video from Google.
- 9/30/2015 Talk at CRCNS workshop, University of Washington.
- 9/16/2015 Talk at the Higher Education series, Cloud Room, Seattle.
- 9/9/2015 Keynote at the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain: Perception, cognition and behavior in real brains and in artificial deep neural networks: are biology and computer science finally converging?
- 8/28/2015 Talk at Friday Harbor National Lab.
- 6/30/2015 Speaking at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warsaw.
- 9/23/2014 Speaking at Wired UK event.
- 8/30/2014 Talk at Friday Harbor National Lab.
- 8/3/2014 Talk at the sixth Smoke Farm Symposium.
- 5/20/2014 Interviewed by the very cool Christian Payne on machine intelligence and social change.
- 5/19/2014 Talks at ThinkingDigital, UK.
- 4/23/2014 Appearance at Town Hall in Seattle with Dave Eggers and Maria Semple.
- 4/7/2014 Interview with WFIU.
- 3/2/2014 Unannounced Vixens of Variance invited talk at COSYNE.
- 2/9/2014 Talks at Indiana University in Bloomington.
- 12/16/2013 Moved to Google! Press coverage from Nick Wingfield at NYT, WinBeta, Fast Company, Search Engine Land, GeekWire, SlashGear, International Business Times, eWeek, AllThingsD, CNET, The Guardian Express, DailyTech, and others.
- 11/23/2013 Post-cyclopean photography talk and panel at Hockney Symposium, Wider Vantages Are Needed Now, Times 18, de Young Museum, San Francisco.
- 11/7/2013 Keynote at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013 in Orlando.
- 10/16/2013 The Lobby Conference in Lana’i.
- 9/5/2013 Launch of the Ricoh Theta panoramic camera, Photosynth compatible.
- 6/23/2013 Keynote at the Mobile Vision workshop at CVPR in Portland.
- 6/11/2013 Demo at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh.
- 4/23/2013 Keynote at the Cloud Day Event in Tel Aviv. Article
- 1/22/2013 Our Connecting documentary featured in Fast Co.DESIGN
- 9/14/2012 VOX Summit on augmented reality, keynote.
- 7/25/2012 BMW Guggenheim Lab, Berlin.
- 6/29/2012 Aspen Ideas Festival. Joint talk with Alexis Madrigal, of The Atlantic.
- 6/8/2012 Creative Mornings at The Makers Space, Seattle. Available here.
- 6/5/2012 Launch of on{X} for Android. Early press at TechCrunch, Engadget.
- 5/30/2012 Launch of Photosynth app for Windows Phone.
- 5/11/2012 Kinnernet, Nazareth.
- 4/24/2012 Seattle screening of Connecting film, with panel discussion.
- 4/15/2012 Launch of Translator app for Windows Phone (nice press).
- 1/6/2012 American Historical Association annual meeting plenary, Chicago.
- 11/3/2011 GeoLoco keynote, SF.
- 10/7/2011 AtlanTech dinner, Paris.
- 9/16/2011 Plenary talk at Picnic, Amsterdam.
- 6/27/2011 eComm, SF.
- 6/8/2011 b.TWEEN 3D interview.
- 5/26/2011 keynote at WebVisions in Portland.
- 5/18/2011 keynote at the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, CA on Read/Write World.
- 5/3/2011 talk at Pacific Science Center’s Science Cafe at TS McHugh’s Irish Pub in Queen Anne, Seattle, 7:30pm: Building a Collective Digital World. KCTS9 has the whole talk and Q&A (>1 hour) online here.
- 5/3/2011 announcement with Steve Ballmer of BlackBerry/Bing partnership at BlackBerryWorld in Orlando, FL.
- 4/20/2011 Where 2.0 keynote, online here. Launch of Read/Write World.
- 4/4/2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference keynote, SF.
- 3/20/2011 ThinkNext, Tel Aviv.
- 3/10/2011 Austin Signal: The Leveraging Local Conversation, with John Battelle.
- 3/3/2011 named Distinguished Engineer.
- 2/22/2011 Forbes article, How Bing Mobile Wins
- 2/1/2011 Talk on Search 2.0 at Big Think’s Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box.
- 12/28/2010 Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, SC.
- 12/15/2010 press conference on Bing Mobile & Maps in San Francisco. Thanks Steve! Coverage on cnet, LA Times, PC World, SF Chronicle, USA Today, Bloomberg, Fox, Time, WSJ, ...
- 11/10/2010 evening talk at the Cornish College of the Arts
- 11/5/2010 profile in the Wall Street Journal
- 9/13/2010 invited talk at TU Graz, Austria: Computer Vision at Bing Maps + Mobile
- 8/18/2010 Kavli Futures Symposium: The Future of Computing, from Extreme to Green in Tromsø, Norway
- 8/5/2010 Tech Innovator in BusinessWeek
- 6/10/2010 talk at Creativity and Technology in New York
- 6/3/2010 talk at the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, CA
- 4/3/2010 lecture at the Arnold Society in Seattle
- 3/31/2010 keynote at Where 2.0 in Santa Jose, CA: The Map as an Information Ecology
- 3/5/2010 Creativity 50 2010
- 2/17/2010 TED talk in Long Beach, CA: Augmented Reality Maps
- 1/24/2010 DLD panelist in Munich, Germany.
- 1/2010 Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium in New York
- 2009 TEDxDublin, Cyberspace arriving: using computer vision to reconstruct and connect the world, Dublin.
- 2009 Keynote, 20th annual Irish Signals & Systems conference.
- 2009 Banff
- 2009 UCSD talk.
- 7/2009 Plenary talk, Renaissance Weekend, Jackson Hole, WY.
- 7/2009 ThinkNext, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 7/2009 MGX/TechReady main stage presentation, Atlanta, GA.
- 6/2009 IEEE/PCS Keynote, Honolulu, HI.
- 6/1/2009 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company Magazine.
- 5/28/2009 Launch of Bing.
- 2008 Photosynth awarded Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award.
- 10/22/2008 Photosynth awarded PC Magazine 25th Annual Excellence Awards for Software.
- 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival.
- 8/30/2008 Launch of Photosynth!
- 7/1/2008 Transitioning from Architect at Live Labs to Architect of Virtual Earth/MSN.
- 8/19/2008 TR35 award, MIT Technology Review.
- Collective Intelligence Foo Camp, Mountain View, CA.
- Photosynth awarded National Geographic Adventure Award.
- 3/24/2008 Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics colloquium, A Worldwide Web of Images.
- 2/2008 Art Center Global Dialogues in Barcelona.
- 1/28/2008 Newsweek article, Like A Super Hero.
- 1/26/2008 Newsweek article, The Visual Internet.
- 2008 AGI Keynote.
- 2008 SciFoo.
- 11/2007 Web 2.0 Expo High Order Bit, Berlin.
- 10/2007 Rockefeller University Friday Colloquium.
- 2007 TechFest, IIT Mumbai, India.
- 10/2007 Keynote at AIGA design conference, The Prehistory of the Metaverse, Denver, CO.
- 9/2007 Plenary talk at Picnic07 in Amsterdam.
- 2007 Keynote at Expression Around The Clock, Cairo, Egypt.
- 2007 Foo Camp.
- 2/2007 TED talk on Seadragon and Photosynth.
- 7/2006 Demo at MGX (annual Microsoft sales conference), unveiling of Photosynth.
- 1/1/2006 Microsoft Live Labs acquires Seadragon.
- 4/2005 Talk at Annual Meeting, Research Libraries Group at The Huntington Library, Seadragon: a new approach to storing and navigating very large visual collections, San Marino, CA.
- 4/2005 Talk, Recasting Gutenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
- 1/2005 Public lecture, Computational History in Action: Discovering Gutenberg’s Printing Processes, Computer Science and Engineering colloquium, University of Washington. Available on UWTV, Seattle, WA.
Broadcast on UWTV - 12/2004 Talk at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2004 task force meeting, Unimpeded Discovery of Digital Content, Portland, OR.
- 10/2004 Microsoft Research Talk, Computational History in Action, Redmond, WA.
- 10/2003 Public lecture, Gutenberg’s second invention: the Catholicon Press, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
- 6/2003 Talk at the Computational Neuroscience Organization CNS*03, Finding the invariant feature space of a neural computation, Alicante, Spain.
- 5/2003 Talk at Prehistory of the Posthuman conference, To understand, then invent: biology beyond natural history, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University.
- 11/2002 Talk at Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Computational analytical bibliography, at the Bibliopolis conference: The Future History of the Book, Den Haag, Netherlands.
- 8/2002 Keynote, IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Computational History: uncovering Gutenberg’s printing process, Princeton University.
- 1/2002 Talk at Program in Applied and Computational Math, What does a single neuron compute?, Princeton University.
- 1/2002 Neuroscience talk, Reconstructing a neural computation, at Princeton University.
- 5/2001 Public lecture, The evolution of early European printing, Rockefeller University, NY.
- 4/2001 Talk at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste, Italy, Timing jitter in a linear/nonlinear model for neural firing.
- 4/2001 Evening talk at the Third Borsellino college on neurophysics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, The evolution of early European printing.
- 4/2001 Talk at the department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, The origins of printing: a computational analysis.
- 3/2001 Public lecture at Princeton University, How were the earliest printing types made?
- 2/2001 Public lecture at The Grolier Club in New York sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, How were the Earliest Printing Types Made?
- 12/2000 Keynote at Incunabula and Their Readers, The Early European Printing Types: An Elementary Analysis, University College, London, UK.
- 9/2000 invited talk at Department of Zoology at Cambridge University on neural adaptation and curved thresholds, Cambridge, UK.