Paul Werbos: Can the NSF Return to Its Former Glory?
Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Paul Werbos pick up where they left off: the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its research in machine intelligence. Dr. Werbos praises the NSF as “the greatest temple of truth in human history” – that is, until recently. What happened? Who is responsible for its recent failings? And is there hope for return to former glory?
Show Notes
- 00:19 | Introducing Dr. Paul Werbos
- 01:07 | “The greatest temple of truth in human history”
- 09:02 | The state of the NSF since 2014
- 16:23 | Big Tech in technical development
Additional Resources
- Dr. Paul Werbos at IEEE.org
- Paul Werbos’s website
- Paul Werbos’s PhD dissertation introducing error backpropagation used today to train artificial neural networks
- Paul Werbos’s 1972 Proposal to Harvard for Backpropagation and Intelligent Reinforcement System
- Vannevar Bush, American engineer & inventor
- “Science the Endless Frontier” (A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, 1945) at nsf.gov
- Joe Bordogna, NSF Deputy Director 1999-2005
- TensorFlow
- Sergey Brin, American computer scientist and entrepreneur
