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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Please watch the video, review the slides and blog posts]. Yan Nee Lee, “ 2 Charts Show how Much the World Depends on Taiwan for Semiconductors ” CNBC , Mar. Do you think China can credibly catch TSMC (without an invasion of Taiwan)? Why or why not?

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is dependent on TSMC , located in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Paul Scharre, “ Debunking the AI Arms Race Theory ” Texas National Security Review , Summer 2021.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. In a potential Taiwan Strait Crisis, there is a need for a low-cost and survivable counter-drone system to defend Taiwan. Team Drone.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. These rules are explicitly coded into a program using a software language (Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, …).

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. These policy memos were reviewed by Tarun Chhabra, the Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council.). We focused on the challenges created when U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

And if you want to cooperate with China, that leads you down a path where you put Taiwan relations on the back burner. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. Hardware vs software.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Enlitic builds machine learning-based software for radiologists that produces more accurate and faster assessments.