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or contact John Rudy, Peter Albin, Bob Primak, or Steve Isenberg directly – Thank you.
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Note – numbering is for reference only and it has no other meaning. Numbers were assigned generally in the order topics were added to the list.
“fup” is short for “follow-up”
# | Description | Follow-ups |
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#1 | Past Predictions on future technology. How did these play out? 1970s or thereabout. David Kaiser to give such a talk? Historian of science. Director of the Harvard Museum, John Duran | DanK to fup (Steve Quantro fup) StephenQ fup |
#2 | Anti-drone technology: Drones, missiles and guidance systems, electronic warfare, etc | JohnR |
#3 | The Rubin Observatory (a remarkable ground-based optical observatory, scheduled to see first-light in two years (~2025) (Marc Gorenstein) | Ted K |
#4 | Further consideration: Can we do anything more about climate change? Do we want to get into data collection and looking at whether the data we use now are applicable to the long-range questions about climate change? Are data sets really applicable to the problem we are studying? Ted Kochanski and Jerry Harris have proposed doing more about this topic. Still following up with the group about the nature of our interests on this topic. | Keep on list? Push to future. |
#5 | Further consideration: COVID update ca. Feb. 2023? Universal vaccine for all COVID variants? Common antigen for the virus. Not new science. But there are new developments. | Likely not much to present, per JerryS. JerryS to fup. |
#6 | Cosmic Background (Rainer Weiss) (PeterA & DanK to attempt contact) | |
#7 | Larry Sass on 3-D house printing, https://spectrum.mit.edu/fall-2022/larry-sass-wants-a-tech-upgrade-for-housing/ | JohnR |
#8 | The art of Space-Time (Anna Barnackna/CEO Mind Mix) Gravitational Lens Effect. (Since the discovery of the first lensed quasars in 1979, this quirky phenomenon has become central to cosmology, as light rays from distant galaxies are deflected (a bit) by gravitational effects of both dark matter and dark energy. DM and DE are the two big mysteries of cosmology – and in physics for that matter.) | TedK to contact Barnackna |
#9 | History and Technology of Deep Sea Exploration (SpeakerTBD) newsletter from Woods Hole Mythbusters video on implosion Ballard talk (18m) | TedK |
#10 | Development of car navigation devices starting in ~1910 and evolving to the present day using digital computers, map database, and GPX. (Donald Cooke) | [4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present |
#11 | The development of photogrammetry from ~1930 to the current state of the art using a $500 “toy” drone and free software to produce orthophotography 50 or more times as detailed as the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth. (Donald Cooke) | [4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present |
#12 | History and Practice of Heart Surgery and Medication (Geltman) | JohnR |
#13 | Future Predictions from the Past. Predictions for 2035 (Quantum Supremacy, or others) | JohnR |
#14 | More talks at Google link | Peter |
#15 | Altruism and Science (DanK) | Peter |
#16 | Current state of animal transplants into humans. | Ted |
#17 | Current state of autonomous driving. Justin Tse can talk about automatic driving capabilities in Tesla cars.(smi) | TedK |
#18 | AI and Medicine (Quackenbush maybe, or Conor) | Jerry, JohnR |
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Website for MIT Lincoln Lab: http://www.ll.mit.edu Surf this yourselves to see if areas of R&D or system development would be of interest to you and the LCTG. LL develops technology which, as it matures, is incorporated into a prototype subsystem or system to demonstrate new capabilities for transfer to industry for government use. Intellectual property can be licensed by MIT for commercial applications
Some topics I (Rich Ralston) propose within the next year, including the August 21 meeting.
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