MIRI Updates
2013 in Review: Fundraising
Update 04/16/2014: At a donor’s request I have replaced the Total Donations per Year chart with one that shows which proportion of the donations were from new and returning donors. Some tweaks were also made to our donation database since...
Lyle Ungar on forecasting
Dr. Lyle Ungar is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds appointments in multiple departments in the schools of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Medicine, and Business. He has published over 200...
Anil Nerode on hybrid systems control
Dr. Anil Nerode is a Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Cornell University. He is “a pioneer in mathematical logic, computability, automata theory, and the understanding of computable processes, both theoretical and practical for over half...
Michael Carbin on integrity properties in approximate computing
Michael Carbin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His interests include the design of programming systems that deliver improved performance and resilience by incorporating approximate computing and self-healing. His work on program analysis at...
Randal Koene on whole brain emulation
Dr. Randal A. Koene is CEO and Founder of the not-for-profit science foundation Carboncopies as well as the neural interfaces company NeuraLink Co. Dr. Koene is Science Director of the 2045 Initiative and a scientific board member in several neurotechnology...
Max Tegmark on the mathematical universe
Known as “Mad Max” for his unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, his scientific interests range from precision cosmology to the ultimate nature of reality, all explored in his new popular book “Our Mathematical Universe“. He is an MIT physics...
