CCNELSI Lecture February 19

Past Events

The Future of Computing

Thursday, October 31, 2019 For 50 years, Moore’s Law has driven revolutionary technological advances that have altered the way we live. We are now reaching the end of Moore’s Law, and with that, the end of conventional, scaling-based computing progress. Beyond conventional CMOS, Boolean logic, a...

The Future of Deep Space Exploration

Center for Enterprise, Exploration, and Defense in Space (CEEDS) presents: The Future of Deep Space Exploration The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies hosts a panel discussion on the exciting work being done in the exploration of deep space. The Institute’s Center for Enterprise, Exploration, a...

African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond

A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond” In the face of African security challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional state...

The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization

Friday June 21st, 2019 moderated by former NASA Administrator MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr. As NASA continues to work towards a future in which it is one of many customers in a vibrant space economy, it is critical to understand both the markets that will drive that transition, and the role that gov...

Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy

Zalman Shoval is an Israeli politician and diplomat who was a 4-term member of the Knesset, first representing David Ben-Gurion's Rafi-State List and then the Likud and who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the George H. W. Bush presidency and, later during the Clinton admi...

A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”

In the face of expanding national, regional, and global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, outbreaks of endemic diseases, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional statecraft to broader missions? A panel of distinguished U.S....

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies, in conjunction with the Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (CCNELSI, www.ccnelsi.com) presented a lecture on February 19. Dr. Michael Chorost spoke on the use of cochlear implants and implications for further integration of technology into the human body in his talk "Cyborg Ear, Cyborg Mind." Click below to watch the program in its entirety.

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