#AcademicRunPlaylist - 9/18/25

Author

Ben Waber
September 19, 2025

A picture of me sitting in front of my packed bookcase, with various tchotches on the top shelf in front of the books there, and the English and Japanese versions of my book prominently displayed on the middle shelf. I'm a bald, middle-aged, white man with a red beard flecked with white. I'm wearing glasses with a metal top rim and a maroon MIT t-shirt.

This was me for most of the day, but in between calls I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a whole slate of talks from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing's Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies symposium:

Kaushik Roy - neuro-inspired algorithms and hardware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTdahxU95w

Priyanka Raina - automated exploration and generation of AI accelerators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PawgM_teh_I

Mark Horowitz - computing hardware constraints - highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbDyH5lasoI

David Patterson - the history and future of computer architecture fundamentals - highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvlZpenDYag

Last was the final day of the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) sustainable AI conference. This day is packed, with a can't miss final panel and standout talks by Nicholas Kluge (open source for sustainable AI) and Sophia Falk (complete life cycle assessment of AI's environmental impact). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rnvvqRUnPY