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