Friday May 28th 2021 The Future of Artificial Intelligence

On May 28th we will consider essays from the 50th Anniversary issue of The Bridge by MIT’s Rod Brooks on The Future of Artificial Intelligence and by Bob Brown and Ken Lutchen on Organizing Academic Engineering for Leading in an Entangled World. 

Bob Brown is the President of Boston University and a former resident of Winchester. 

Ken is BU’s Dean of Engineering 

These essays are found on pages 24-29 of the volume. It would be helpful to review them in advance of our meeting. The link to the volume follows: https://www.nae.edu/244832/The-Bridge-50th-Anniversary-Issue. 

Eddie Robins and Ron Latanision will moderate in turn the discussion of the Brooks and Brown/Lutchen essays.

Friday May 14th, 2021. Bob Lewis - Battleship Bismark

Retired Navy Captain and Navy pilot Bob Lewis returns to the Wilson Forum on May 14th, this time to speak about The Hunt for the German Battleship Bismarck. 

Details regarding this important moment in history are attached.  

Bob spent seven years with the U.S. Navy as an Aircraft-carrier- based Patrol Plane Commander, serving on the aircraft carriers WASP, INTREPID, and SARATOGA. As a Naval Reserve officer, he flew P-2s and P-3s and commanded his Naval Reserve unit. In his 30 years as an engineer with the MITRE Corporation, he spent 7 years in Germany at Headquarters, US Army Europe, helping to develop joint communication systems to integrate the Army, Air Force and Marines. He later returned to Germany to lead the communications engineering effort for an alternate command post in Romania.