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Nicholas Bloom: Home is where the work is
Feb 10, 2023Guest Nicholas Bloom has studied telecommuting for 20 years. Prior to the pandemic, he says, just five percent of days were “worked from home,” but the number is now closer to one in three. It looks l...
Mac Schwager: How engineers are putting the ‘auto’ in autonomous
Jan 27, 2023On this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast, guest Mac Schwager talks safety in multi-robot systems, like those controlling the autonomous vehicles that will soon fill o...
Ilan Kroo: Better ways to build an airplane
Jan 20, 2023Our guest on this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast, Ilan Kroo, is an expert in aircraft design. But when Kroo talks of aircraft, he means a new generation of flying v...
Helen Blau: New life for old muscles
Dec 16, 2022Helen Blau is a stem cell biologist and expert in why, as we age, our muscles weaken, even if we get exercise and try to stay fit. In an age when humans are living longer, our muscles are critical to ...
Lawrence Wein: Computation cracks cold cases
Dec 02, 2022This episode's guest on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast is Lawrence Wein, an expert in the science of catching criminals using DNA left behind years or even decades prior. All ...
Doug James: Computer-generated sound catches its graphical sibling
Nov 18, 2022Natural sounds in the world around us are based on the principles of physics. Today’s guest on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast, Doug James, uses those same principles to create...
Melissa Valentine: The rise of the flash organization
Nov 11, 2022This episode's guest on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast, management science and engineering professor Melissa Valentine studies a workplace phenomenon known as the flash organi...
Elaine Treharne: Why physical books will always be with us
Nov 04, 2022Our guest on this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Elaine Treharne, is an English professor and an authority on ancient manuscripts. She's using modern tools like ma...
Oussama Khatib: What if Aquaman were a robot?
Oct 28, 2022On this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, robotics expert Oussama Khatib takes us on a deep dive into the vagaries of creating robots that swim. His most recent proje...
Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
Oct 21, 2022On this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Stanford infectious disease expert Desiree LaBeaud talks trash, literally. She says carelessly discarded plastics can collec...