New Podcast Spotlight: The Interconnect

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Emerging technologies are transforming international relations and our country’s economy. So how do we connect science and engineering labs with Washington and the world of business? The Interconnect, a new podcast series from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Stanford Emerging Technology Review, brings together leading minds in cutting-edge technology and foreign policy to explore recent ground-breaking developments, what's coming over the horizon, and the implications for U.S. innovation leadership. In this featured episode, Stanford Emerging Technology Review Faculty Council Member Mark Horowitz and CFR’s technologist-in-residence Sebastian Elbaum discuss where chip manufacturing is heading, how hardware advances are powering the new artificial intelligence (AI) era, and what the United States should prioritize in order to sustain its leadership in this crucial domain. Host Martin Giles, Managing Editor of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review Guests Mark Horowitz, chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University Sebastian Elbaum, the Technologist in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations

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0:00.0	How do you navigate a warming world?
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0:37.3	courses on Coursera coming in April for Earth Day.
0:44.8	Welcome to the Interconnect, a new podcast series from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Stanford Emerging Technology Review.
0:53.9	Each episode brings together experts from critical fields of emerging technology
0:58.5	to explore recent groundbreaking developments, what's coming over the horizon,
1:03.8	and how the implications for American innovation leadership
1:07.4	interconnect with the fast-changing geopolitical environment.
1:12.1	I'm Martin Giles, and I'm the managing editor of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review.
1:17.0	In this episode, we'll be focusing on semiconductors and computing.
1:21.1	There are certain classes of problems that seem like the quantum computer could be much better,
1:27.4	but how broad that space is, I think is currently unknown.
1:32.4	What happens when you do not have access to the latest Nvidia hardware?
1:37.8	That's, I think, where Deep Sea comes in.
1:41.1	Joining me to talk about these key domains are Mark Horowitz, a member of the Reviews Faculty
1:46.5	Council and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, and
1:51.3	Sebastian Elbaum, the technologist in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations
1:55.6	and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia.
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