Focusing on the famed Hughes Research facility’s past and HRL’s present advancements in science and technology.
HRL's History of the Future
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Focusing on the famed Hughes Research facility’s past and HRL’s present advancements in science and technology.
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July 13, 2022
E06 | Heiko Hoffmann - Don’t Fear the Robots!
<p><strong>Don’t Fear the Robots!</strong></p> <p>In this episode we spoke with Dr. Heiko Hoffmann, recent manager of the Autonomous Intelligence Department within the Information and Systems Sciences Laboratory of HRL Laboratories.</p> <p>Born and educated in Germany, Heiko’s postdoctoral studies took him to the University of Edinburgh and University of Southern California before landing at HRL Laboratories in in 2010. Among many accomplishments, Heiko developed a method for robotic movement generation, a new version of Dynamic Movement Primitives, that has been cited over 2000 times and used around the world in various robots. He led many innovative and successful projects during his time at HRL and we were excited to ask him about the intricacies of working with machines that learn.</p> <p>Heiko’s curiosity about the automated world and the way the human mind works led to many advanced programs under his leadership. Despite the common view of robots with machine intelligence as devices that could replace humans or become our technological overlords, Heiko assured us that robots are tools that help humans and are not to be feared.</p>
June 12, 2019
E05 | Mike Daily and Dave Payton - Artificial intelligence! Autonomous vehicles! Augmented reality! And Robots!
<p><strong>Artificial intelligence! Autonomous vehicles! Augmented reality! And Robots!</strong></p> <p>Current HRL scientists Mike Daily and Dave Payton are pioneers in modern robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomy to name just a few of their areas of expertise.</p> <p>They worked together on the very first successful autonomous vehicle for DARPA back in 1987 and have continued their research right up to today’s leading edge of robotics and autonomy. Mike and Dave have both published extensively and each has led many important research projects over their long careers. For decades they’ve been at the center of many major advances in virtual and augmented reality and vehicle autonomy and resilience. We were honored to welcome them to the podcast to share some of their myriad experiences.</p>
December 3, 2018
E04 | Mary Young - Witnessing the dawn of the internet! Surviving the Cold War! Ushering in the 21st Century!
<p><strong>Witnessing the dawn of the internet! Surviving the Cold War! Ushering in the 21st Century!</strong></p> <p>In 2004, Mary Young retired after a distinguished research career that began in 1974 at Hughes Research Labs, then part of Hughes Aircraft Company, through the launch of HRL Laboratories, LLC, as we know it today and into to the 21stCentury.</p> <p>Mary attended <a href="https://www.wfu.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wake Forest University</a> in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where she earned her bachelor’s degree in physics. She then earned a master’s degree in physics at the <a href="https://www.umd.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Maryland, College Park</a>.</p> <p>Mary and her husband moved to California in 1973 and Mary began working at Hughes Research Labs in late January 1974, conducting experiments needed to characterize specially doped silicon for infrared detector arrays.</p> <p>Selected to receive a Hughes Doctoral Fellowship, in 1977 Mary began a PhD program in the Engineering Department at UCLA with Professor Oscar Stafsudd. After earning her PhD in 1980, Mary rose through the HRL ranks as a member of technical staff, then section head, project manager, and department head. In 1990 she became the first woman lab director at HRL Laboratories, as head of the Chemical Physics Laboratory, later renamed the Sensors and Materials Laboratory.</p> <p>After retirement, Mary remained on advisory boards with the <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Academy of Sciences</a> and the United States Air Force, and on the Board of Visitors at her alma mater, Wake Forest. Mary and her husband travel extensively since their retirement, and they still live in the Malibu area. Mary was kind enough to make time to talk to us about her long and illustrious career at HRL.</p>
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