Hava Siegelmann is Provost Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and for her groundbreaking work at DARPA, the research and development agency of the U.S Department of Defense, she is a recipient of The Meritorious Public Service Medal – one of the highest honors that the U.S army can bestow upon a private citizen. She truly is a world-renowned AI pioneer, and it all started at the Technion, where she studied computer science for her BA.

Throughout a career spanning decades and continents, she’s been on the front lines of innovation in AI, neural networks, and hypercomputation or super-Turing; and in a moment, you’ll hear her talk about things like so-called ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in very smart machines; how robots can help rehabilitate injured soldiers; and even a little bit about baseball. 

Professor Siegelmann also tells us about her work in defending Israel and fighting antisemitism at the academic level, something she’s been very vocal about long before the current war, but has become an even bigger part of her professional life since October seventh.

Host: Jonathan Gal

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Doctor Nir Barzilai is a professor of medicine and genetics at the Albert Einstein college of medicine; he’s the director of the biggest center in the world for the biology of aging; and the president of the academy of health and lifespan research. Over the course of this conversation, Doctor Barzilai talks about the centenarian studies he’s been conducting for over two decades now, focusing on people well over a hundred years old… and the so-called longevity genes they have in common. He also touches on the benefits of fasting; What he thinks about ‘immortalists’; four drugs that actually could delay aging, and much much more.
Host: Jonathan Gal

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Dr. Kira Radinsky, CEO of Diagnostic Robotics, is one of the most interesting experts globally in the field of predictive algorithms... and a proud Technion alum. She was named one of the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Young Innovators Under 35, Forbes 30 under 30 rising stars in enterprise technology, and "woman of the year" by Globes magazine in Israel.

Over the course of this conversation, she takes us on a journey that somehow connects the Chernobyl disaster to Miley Cyrus, Cholera and the Arab spring, Mark Twain to Chat GPT. We also cover her time working for Microsoft, Ebay, and the Gates Foundation, and much much more. Host: Jonathan Gal

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Dotan Bar Noy is senior vice President of Technology at Delinea, and chairman of the Technion Alumni Association. In this conversation, Dotan talks about the lessons he learned from founding – and selling – several startup companies… and why he really does not like the title of “serial entrepreneur”. He also describes his vision for a worldwide network of Technion alumni, how he met his future wife on campus, and much much more. Host: Jonathan Gal

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Our very first guest is Uber Freight CEO and proud Technion alum: Lior Ron. With a career that took him to top positions in companies like Google and Motorola Mobility, plus several innovative startups, as well as a deal estimated at $680 million - Lior has never stopped praising his alma mater, and advocating for a stronger worldwide network of Technion alumni. In this conversation, we hear from him about a self-driving trucking revolution, living and working as an Israeli in Silicon Valley, plus much more. Host: Jonathan Gal