Future Human

The Vendee Globe – an around-the-world, solo sailing competition – is considered one of the most grueling sporting events of the modern age. As such, it presents an intriguing opportunity to solve one of the most vexing challenges facing technological innovation: the “remote problem.” Listen in as champion racer Alex Thomson and Marcus Weldon, President of Nokia Bell Labs and Corporate CTO of Nokia, discuss the potential of their unique collaboration.

So skilled is Harry Yeff - better known as champion beatboxer Reeps One - at his craft that he’s prompted one neuroscientist to note: “[he] can make at least three sounds simultaneously [with his mouth] -- and theoretically you're not supposed to be able to do that.” A Bell Labs Artist In Residence and collaborator, he’s training a sophisticated deep learning artificial intelligence system to beatbox – setting the scene for a most unusual duet. We get the full, behind the scenes scoop.

Presented in its entirety, here is the Shannon Luminary Lecture from Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a data scientist and serial entrepreneur who directs the Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs at MIT. If you haven’t already, please check out Episode 16 to get some behind the scenes insight and commentary from Pentland. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by Audiation.fm.

Alex Pentland has been called “one of the seven most powerful data scientists in the world” by Forbes magazine. Now, he’s taking on our tribal disconnection. Listen in to hear Pentland’s vision for something he calls “HumanAI”; along the way, he explains why org charts are useless, why where you buy your morning coffee matters, and most importantly, how we can all reclaim a bit of our precious digital privacy. Produced by audiation.fm

Presented in its entirety, here is the full Shannon Luminary Lecture from Dr. Benjamin Ebert – a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chair of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, among many other vaunted positions. If you haven’t already, please check out Episode 14 to get some more insight from Dr. Ebert in conversation with Bell Labs President/Nokia CTO Marcus Weldon. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by Audiation.fm.

Cancer research is at an inflection point. While the disease is poised to overtake heart disease as the leading cause of death this century, massive strides are being made. Dr. Benjamin Ebert – a Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chair of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – recently delivered a Shannon Luminary Lecture where he laid out the current state of play with research, including the positive impacts genetic sequencing is having across multiple disease states.

Presented in its entirety, please enjoy the full Shannon Luminary Lecture from Vint Cerf – Google’s Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, and a man considered by many to be a ‘Father of the Internet.’ If you haven’t already, please check out Episode 12 to get some more insight from Vint himself in conversation with Bell Labs President/Nokia CTO Marcus Weldon. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.

Whether it’s because he had a hand in creating the first commercial email system or co-developed the TCP/IP protocol - over which all Internet traffic flows – Vint Cerf is considered one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’. On this episode, Cerf gives us the scoop on his recent Shannon Luminary Lecture, in which he issues a call for how to make our future of connected devices – dubbed ‘The Internet of Things’ – more humane. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audi

In this episode, we check in with a few fearless students who spent their summer on the Nokia Bell Lab campus in Murray Hill, New Jersey. These folks were: teaching robots how to navigate buildings; pressure testing materials that will enable factories to operate more efficiently; enhancing the capabilities of potentially life-saving wearables; improving the technology that powers facial recognition; and turning live concerts into a personal surround sound experience.

Listen in as Bell Labs President and Nokia CTO Marcus Weldon decodes the philosophy behind the Bell Labs Prize, and hear from the 2017 winners: Kaushik Sengupta; Jason Azoulay and Tina Ng; and Colm O’Dwyer. In addition to cash awards, each winner has the opportunity to collaborate with Bell Labs researchers to bring their vision to fruition, with amazing implications for the future of health care, wearables and much more. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.fm.

On the eve of the first major exhibition of NEW INC's artists' collaboration with Bell Labs researchers, Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and CTO of Nokia, gives us a sneak peek at what to expect, and how you can view and participate. "Only Human," featuring works and performances by Sougwen Chung, Lisa Park and HAMMERSTEP, opens April 29 at 1PM, kicking off the Spring Open Season at Mana Contemporary arts center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

A look inside Nokia Bell Labs' relaunched Experiments In Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program through the eyes of several Artists In Residence working with the company.

8: Stephen Fry’s Nokia Bell Labs Shannon Luminary Lecture

Stephen Fry delivers a soliloquy for the ages on how to face our AI-driven future.

Revered cancer researcher Stephen Friend has a message: not only do we need to take more agency in our own healthcare, beyond the “priestly experts” we entrust, but we need to reclaim “endangered experiences” where we have a dialogue with ourselves. Bell Labs’ Marcus Weldon calls this lecture “the bravest talk I’ve ever seen.” Listen to this episode to understand why; then, listen to the full lecture in Episode 6. Future Human is a presentation of Nokia Bell Labs, produced by audiation.f