John Allen

Sep 29, 2024 | spectrum.ieee.org | John Allen |Peter Levin

In 1956 Henry Kissinger speculated in Foreign Affairs about how the nuclear stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union could force national security officials into a terrible dilemma. His thesis was that the United States risked sending a signal to potential aggressors that, faced with conflict, defense officials would have only two choices: settle for peace at any price, or retaliate with thermonuclear ruin.

Sep 29, 2024 | evdriven.com | John Allen |Peter Levin

In 1956 Henry Kissinger speculated in Foreign Affairs about how the nuclear stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union could force national security officials into a terrible dilemma. His thesis was that the United States risked sending a signal to potential aggressors that, faced with conflict, defense officials would have only two choices: settle for peace at any price, or retaliate with thermonuclear ruin.

Jun 9, 2024 | energy-transitions.org | John Allen

10 June 2024 – In its latest briefing, Credible Contributions: Bolder Plans for Higher Climate Ambition in the Next Round of NDCs, the ETC calls for industry and government collaboration to raise the ambition of the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by COP30. If we are to limit the impact of climate change, NDCs can and must reflect technical potential and reinforce existing progress by setting more ambitious targets with stronger links to national policies.

Jun 30, 2023 | htworld.co.uk | John Allen

From technology improvements to medical breakthroughs, healthcare is an industry that’s constantly evolving. We can attribute many recent advances to the industry’s embrace of digitalisation and IoT. This has allowed disparate tools and systems to connect to the internet and share data, delivering a more complete and accurate view of patients and processes.

Mar 13, 2023 | uwalumni.com | John Allen

“Almost all machine-learning models make an assumption,” says Sharon Li, a UW–Madison professor of computer sciences. “They assume the data that they will see in the future will look a lot like the data that they had seen in the past, during the time they were [being developed]. [But] if you think about what AI systems would encounter in reality, it often involves unfamiliar data, that could be data.