Benjamin Franklin Medal Laureate Lecture
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Location: Mitten Hall, Great Court, Temple University, 1913 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Connectivity is a thing, is THE thing
Speaker: Robert M. Metcalfe, Ph.D.
Recipient of the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering
Hear many stories from ARPANET, ALOHAnet, Ethernet, and Internet. After 50+ years since the first internet
packets were switched, the most important new fact about the human condition is that we are now all suddenly connected. This suddenness has caused pathologies - hacking, advertising, spam, polarization, fake news, censorship - but on the other hand, extreme poverty has suddenly declined for the first time, thanks to the World Wide Web? Connectivity has evolved with various transitions and reversals, of which we can expect many more. Some of our Artificial Intelligences (AIs), still short of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), are approaching 100 trillion connection parameters.
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