Exploring the Sun-Earth Relationship — Sunspots are dark areas on the sun’s surface. They are regions of reduced surface temperature at around 3593 C (6,500 F), expanding and contracting, with diameters ranging from 16 km (10 mi) to 160,000…

Principles for Humanity’s Expansion in Space Modern-day space exploration needs a new guiding philosophy. Humanity is at a unique inflection point with space exploration that the decisions and actions we make today will have a large prolonged and profound impact on future generations, whether positively or negatively. Fortifying laws may…

Harnessing the Power of Space Technology — The Mission The spirit of space exploration has always fascinated the human imagination. In 1968 when Apollo 8 became the first ever flight to circumnavigate the moon, astronaut Bill Anders reflected by saying “we came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is…

How Small Changes Lead to Great Transformations — There are moments when an action or decision you make will lead to significant change with a long arc of impact for years to come. These are transformational trim tab moments. Trim Tab as a Metaphor Buckminster Fuller describes trim tabs as a metaphor for life: Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what…

To Benefit the Long Term Sustainability of Society — Can better stories increase human motivation to contribute to long-term sustainability? Stories shape our reality Stories exist in various forms, from theories in psychology and economics to the narrative of why we wake up and go to work. Stories offer explanations of how the world works (or ought to work), and they mold us…

Siri, Alexa, Google and the future of voice and health technology — The next health revolution is in your voice The vision for this future is to unlock the human voice as a meaningful measurement of health. AI voice assistants can transform speech into a vital sign, enabling early detection and predictions of oncoming conditions. …

Personalization and discovery that sparks social change and increases customer lifetime value — Every day you are being influenced by machine learning and AI recommendation algorithms. What you consume on social media through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the personalization you experience when you search, listen, or watch Google, Spotify, YouTube, what you discover using Airbnb and UberEATS, all of these products are powered by machine learning and AI recommender systems.

Exploring Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning — Can AI Determine Your Gender Based on a Single Tweet? Why is this an important question? Ultimately this is a stepping stone to answering the ethical question: should we teach Artificial Intelligence to detect your ethnicity? This is an analogous question to: if we had complete discretion, would we teach our children to recognize someone’s ethnicity?

Data science to find a profitable way to do good — The world population is increasing from 7.8 billion today, to a projected 12 billion over the next 50 years. That’s 4.2 billion new people on the planet, which is ~13x the size of USA. To sustain this growth, we need to produce more energy. But…