Writings

Computing the Future: How Computer Science Reshaped the World

Hardware breakthroughs and profound advances in software, algorithms, and system design together represent one of the most consequential engineering achievements of the past 250 years.

Manufacturing with Multi-Robot Teams

Advancing flexible, autonomous factories by enabling teams of robots to assemble complex and diverse structures beyond rigid assembly lines.

To compete with China on AI, we need a lot more power

A ChatGPT query uses 10 times the wattage of a Google search. It may already be impossible for the U.S. to match China’s centralized energy system.

The future of AI innovation and the role of academics in shaping it

Universities founded centuries ago are the ones poised to tackle problems far enough removed from the market demands and day-to-day profit margins that drive industry’s shareholders.

One supply-chain solution: Automate the jobs we can’t fill

This fall a huge supply-chain story dropped as quietly as a tree in the middle of the woods: Singapore launched a new port in Tuas that officials say will eventually be able to handle more cargo every year than all U.S. ports combined. The secret to its prolificacy? Automation.