Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross
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Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning computer scientist, entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of Gemedy and Managing Director of Reified and has taught at Harvard and MIT. He has received 128 major distinctions, authored 23 publications, been granted 26 issued, pending, and provisional patents, and founded, advised, and invested in more than 36 technology companies. In 1998 and 1999, respectively, he won the USA Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to earn a triple major, with bachelor's degrees in Physics, Electrical Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, and graduated first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering with a Marshall Scholarship. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Foundation's Doctoral Thesis Prize. A thought leader in artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems, he is a contributing author of the New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die, and the Amazon #1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think. A popular TED speaker, his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200 press outlets worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired. [Download Full CV]
Publications
Patents
Talks
Press
Harvard IACS Seminar
Achieving superintelligence: definitions, datasets, and defenses
September 9, 2016
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Conference
The physics of artificial general intelligence
August 3, 2014
TED / TEDxBeaconStreet
A new equation for intelligence
November 17, 2013
Google Solve for X
Networking faster than light
November 16, 2013
Foresight Technical Conference
Computation and molecular nanotechnologies
January 13, 2013
Terasem Annual Virtual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology
Physically programmable surfaces
July 20, 2012
The Seasteading Conference
Liquidity on the high seas
June 2, 2012
Philosophical Society of Washington
Trading at the speed of light
December 2, 2011
The Singularity Summit
Planetary scale intelligence
October 16, 2011
Green:Net
To manage it, you need to measure it
March 24, 2009
Hertz Foundation Symposium
Thesis prize winners panel
March 21, 2009