Tue, Mar 17
|on Zoom
Rockville Science Cafe Lecture Series
"Computing is Physical: Mapping Intelligence to Hardware (and vice versa)" with Matthew Daniels, Ph.D.
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
on Zoom
About the event
All are welcome to tune in on Zoom for this month's Rockville Science Cafe lecture.
Please register for the Zoom link in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UKGJUVEiQLaxvV-XaJsf0A#/registration
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly expanding in all sectors. Yet even as algorithms and AI models improve, the concepts behind the hardware executing these AI calculations remains largely unchanged from the pre-AI era. In this talk, we discuss the need for AI-specific computer hardware, and discuss ways in which the physics of circuits, magnets, and time can be utilized to build new classes of AI hardware that are inspired by nature and the brain itself.
Our speaker: Matthew Daniels is a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He earned his B.S. in Physics from Clemson University and his Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on the theoretical physics of topological materials and the dynamics of…