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The Future of Everything

Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t

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Total: 329

Stanford professor Johan Ugander is an expert in making sense of messy data. Lately he’s been workin

For a profession that has existed essentially since the beginning of human civilization, few people

Much of what the world knows about genetic diseases is learned by comparing the DNA of people with a

As the field of computer science has evolved over the last half century, so too has the way in which

In one of computer science’s more meta moments, professor Chelsea Finn created an AI algorithm to ev

For experts in digital graphics and visual perception, like computer scientist Kayvon Fatahalian, th

One underappreciated fact about the explosion in genetic databases, like consumer sites that provide

Readers of Eric Appel’s academic profile will note appointments in materials science, bioengineering

As the world has learned through the recent pandemic, epidemiological studies can be complicated by

For decades, the general-purpose central processing unit—the CPU—has been the workhorse of the compu

Most people know the seismograph, those ultrasensitive instruments that record every small shift in

Anyone who’s ever made weekend plans based on the weather forecast knows that prediction – about any

Electronics are everywhere these days, so much so that often we don't even register that we are usin

It now seems more certain than ever that the world will make the all-important transition to electri

Engineer Irene Lo studies markets, but not traditional marketplaces based in cash.Instead, she studi

Oft-heralded 3-dimensional printers can build objects ranging from simple spoons to advanced running

Tina Hernandez-Boussard is an expert in biomedical informatics who says a new era of understanding t

Nate Persily is a professor at Stanford Law School and an expert in election law.He sees the most re

Whether by injury or disease, paralysis has afflicted humans through the ages.Only now have science

Sam Wineburg, a research psychologist at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, recently conducted