The Tonya Hall Innovation Show

Tonya Hall interviews technology and innovation newsmakers across multiple fields including AI, machine learning, cloud computing, programming and digital health as well as a wide range of enterprise issues.

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The search for Earth's twin
Dr. Sara Seager, professor of planetary sciences at MIT and deputy director of science for the TESS science team, tells Tonya Hall about the search to find water on a rocky planet with TESS.
11 min
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How robots affect an individual's empathy?
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Kate Darling, research specialist at the MIT Media Lab, to learn more about why, in some cases, military officers are becoming attached to battlefield robots.
10 min
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How limiting resources is creating resourceful ...
Dr. Sarah Kessans, research fellow at New Zealand's University of Canterbury, sits down with Tonya Hall and explains how the limiting resource epidemic surrounding food is leading to innovative ways to feed humans.
8 min
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Integrating big data and the weather
Dr. Kevin Petty, director of science and forecast operations in public/private partnerships at The Weather Company, explains to Tonya Hall the benefit of using IBM's Watson, Blue Thunder, and GPU-based processing platforms to integrate big data into weather predictions.
7 min
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What we know about the black hole information p...
Dr. Fabio Pacucci, theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard, informs Tonya Hall about the newest information that has been discovered about the black hole information paradox.
11 min
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The importance of public educators and corporat...
Tonya Hall and Alan Smithson, CEO of MetaVRse, sit down to talk about the importance of education corporate employees to utilize resources.
12 min
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A decade of digital disruptions
Lance Ulanoff, editor-in-chief at Lifewire, talks to Tonya Hall about the past decade in tech and looks ahead to what the next decade will bring in terms of digital disruptions.
12 min
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A story told by a 375-million-year-old speck of...
Dr. Thomas Holoien, Carnegie fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, tells Tonya Hall about a story gathered from a 375 million year old speck of light by capturing a full tidal disruption event, which is exceedingly rare.
10 min
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Why security and privacy should be essential to AI
Tonya Hall talks to Gabriel Rene, co-founder and executive director of VERSES Foundation, to learn why security and privacy must be woven into the layers of AI to better connect humans, machines, and AI.
13 min
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Teaching titanium atoms to dance... for quantum...
Chris Lutz, staff scientist at IBM Research, tells Tonya Hall how to see and move individual atoms within quantum computing.
7 min
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Ways to minimize human mistakes in deep learning
Tonya Hall sits down with Jeremy Howard, founding researcher at Fast.ai, to talk about ways to minimize the potential mistakes from human involvement within the deep learning algorithm.
13 min
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Our economy is using fewer resources over time
Dr. Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT, talks to Tonya Hall about his book, "More from less," and explains how our growing economy uses fewer resources per capita over time.
7 min
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Sci-fi: What movies teach us about morality and...
Dr. Andrew Maynard, professor at the school for the future of innovation in society at Arizona State University, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about lessons regarding morality and ethics that can be gained through science-fiction movies.
10 min
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The barriers to AI implementation
Tonya Hall talks to David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, about various roadblocks that can prevent companies from rolling out AI.
10 min
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A light-hearted culture goes a long way at work
Charles Henderson, global managing partner and head of X-Force Red at IBM, tells Tonya Hall the importance of creating a prank culture because it increases employee satisfaction and retention.
10 min
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How to be an effective mentor
Tonya Hall speaks with Wendy Lea, board member at Louisville entrepreneurship acceleration partnership and mentor at Techstars, to learn more about the best practices mentors should do in order to benefit their mentee in the best possible manner.
15 min
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NASA announces first results from Parker Solar ...
Dr. Nicola Fox, heliophysics division director science mission directorate at NASA, tells Tonya Hall about the first results from the Parker Solar Probe, which observed phenomena that can only be measured from within the orbit of Mercury.
14 min
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Training algorithms to recognize deep fakes
Christye Sisson, professor and director of photographic sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, talks to Tonya Hall about the process of recognizing deep fakes, along with the importance of continuously finding innovative ways for data sets to keep up with evolving technology.
11 min
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Why there's hope for AI, jobs, and a digital ec...
Dr. Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder of the MIT initiative on the digital economy, tells Tonya Hall there's an optimistic outlook on AI and jobs and explains that the past demonstrates how we can transition from an industrial economy to a digital economy.
8 min
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What Pokemon Go taught us about AR
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Ross Finman, AR strategy lead at Niantic, to learn more about the driving forces behind AR growth and the technology limitations that companies are working to overcome.
12 min
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How future entrepreneurs are created
Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google, talks to Tonya Hall about the importance the education system is playing to create future, successful entrepreneurs with the help of the business industry.
11 min
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How to prevent a ransomware attack
Tonya Hall sits down with Wendi Whitmore, vice president of IBM X Force, to learn more about important tips for preventing a ransomware attack gathered from a local government ransomware study.
11 min
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Finding traces of water on a super Earth exoplanet
Dr Angelos Tsiaras, postdoctoral researcher at University College London, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about the instruments used to find traces of water on a super earth exoplanet.
8 min
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The business and effects of biohacking
Tim Chang, partner at the Mayfield Fund, sits down with Tonya Hall to discuss the growing industry of biohacking.
15 min
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How machine learning is predicting employee tur...
Tonya Hall speaks with Dr. David Allen, associate dean of graduate programs at TCU, to learn about the technology within machine learning that's being used to predict employees leaving organizations.
9 min