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Scott Stapp, Former Northrop Grumman Chief Technology Officer, Joins DEFCON AI

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Thursday, February 1, 2024
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Gen. (Retired) Scott Stapp has joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.

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  • Gen. (Retired) Scott Stapp has joined the company as its Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240131391177/en/
    Scott Stapp, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at DEFCON AI (Photo: DEFCON AI)
    In Stapp’s new roles, he will lead technology, business, and partnership development and cultivate and oversee external partnerships.
  • He will also direct technology strategy; provide technical guidance; build a favorable tech-product-customer ecosystem; and lead DEFCON AI’s Technology Review Board.
  • Just as important, he believes in our mission and what we’ve set out to accomplish at DEFCON AI.

National Academy of Medicine Member New President of The Obesity Society

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Thursday, February 1, 2024
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ROCKVILLE, Md. , Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A member of the National Academy of Medicine is the new president of The Obesity Society (TOS), the organization announced today.

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  • , Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A member of the National Academy of Medicine is the new president of The Obesity Society (TOS), the organization announced today.
  • He also co-directs the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Weight Management Center, where he oversees medical weight management programs.
  • "I am honored to serve as president of TOS during such a transformative time in the field of obesity.
  • The Obesity Society (TOS) is the leading organization of scientists and health professionals devoted to understanding and reversing the epidemic of obesity and its adverse health, economic and societal effects.

Toyota's Way Forward Fund Announces Grants to Advance Pediatric Research, Care

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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"The Way Forward Fund helps the company realize its vision of creating mobility for all by implementing the Toyota Way values of continuous improvement and respect for people."

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  • "The Way Forward Fund helps the company realize its vision of creating mobility for all by implementing the Toyota Way values of continuous improvement and respect for people."
  • The recipients will use the grants to advance pediatric TBI care in their areas of specialties.
  • "Through a community-based approach to care, the Way Forward Fund leverages Toyota's partnerships, know-how, support and connections to drive new ideas," said Douglas Moore, executive director, Way Forward Fund.
  • This is the second round of grants awarded through the Way Forward Fund.

Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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In the air traffic control system, everything must meet the highest levels of safety, but not everything goes according to plan.

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  • In the air traffic control system, everything must meet the highest levels of safety, but not everything goes according to plan.
  • I’m an aerospace engineer who led a National Academies study ordered by Congress about air traffic controller staffing.
  • As the scenario above illustrates, humans are likely to remain a necessary central component of air traffic control for a long time to come.

What air traffic controllers do

  • The Federal Aviation Administration’s fundamental guidance for the responsibility of air traffic controllers states: “The primary purpose of the air traffic control system is to prevent a collision involving aircraft.” Air traffic controllers are also charged with providing “a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic” and other services supporting safety, such as helping pilots avoid mountains and other hazardous terrain and hazardous weather, to the extent they can.
  • Tower controllers provide the local control that clears aircraft to take off and land, making sure that they are spaced safely apart.
  • Tower controllers are aided by some displays but mostly look outside from the towers and talk with pilots via radio.
  • At larger airports staffed by FAA controllers, surface surveillance displays show controllers the aircraft and other vehicles on the ground on the airfield.

How technology can help

  • Public concern about a growing number of close calls have put a spotlight on aging technology and staffing shortages that have led to air traffic controllers working mandatory overtime.
  • New technologies can help alleviate those issues.
  • Systems help alert controllers to potential conflicts between aircraft, or aircraft that are too close to high ground or structures, and provide suggestions to controllers to sequence aircraft into smooth traffic flows.
  • Researchers are using machine learning to analyze and predict aspects of air traffic and air traffic control, including air traffic flow between cities and air traffic controller behavior.

How technology can complicate matters

  • New technology can also cause profound changes to air traffic control in the form of new types of aircraft.
  • For example, current regulations mostly limit uncrewed aircraft to fly lower than 400 feet (122 meters) above ground and away from airports.
  • Some plan to have their aircraft fly regular flight routes and interact normally with air traffic controllers via voice radio.

Expect the unexpected

  • Controllers are given the responsibility and the flexibility to adapt how they manage their airspace.
  • The requirements for the front line of air traffic control are a poor match for AI’s capabilities.
  • People expect air traffic to continue to be the safest complex, high-technology system ever.


Amy Pritchett receives funding from the National Science Foundation through the Center for Advanced Aerial Mobility and Sensors (CAAMS) on the topic of in-flight autonomy capable of resolving faults and failures in on-board systems, and is finishing up a project sponsored by NASA examining human-autonomy teaming in advanced aerial mobility.

Doheny Eye Institute Research Breakthrough: An Inherited Mutation Blinds Young Adult Males By Disturbing Mitochondrial Quantum Electron Tunneling

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Monday, January 29, 2024
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The mystery of how LHON causes blindness is now illuminated: the mutation causes alterations in quantum electron tunneling.

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  • The mystery of how LHON causes blindness is now illuminated: the mutation causes alterations in quantum electron tunneling.
  • Quantum tunneling is an amazing process, totally unlike classical chemistry, that enables elementary particles, like electrons, to penetrate through energy barriers.
  • What is now shown is that quantum tunneling is likely central to many biological reactions and may be key in explaining other human diseases.
  • It is in this subsection, called Complex I, that the mobility of the energy-trafficking molecule CoQ10 is seriously impaired.

CAE Adds Nakia Towns and Ingmar Berg to Its Board of Directors

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Thursday, January 25, 2024
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Towns served as Deputy Superintendent for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia’s largest district and the 11th largest in the country.

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  • Towns served as Deputy Superintendent for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia’s largest district and the 11th largest in the country.
  • Mr. Berg brings more than two decades of experience in various financial and operational roles for public, private, and private equity-backed companies to CAE’s board.
  • “I am eager to collaborate with my board colleagues to advance the objectives and vision of CAE."
  • “Our board is well equipped to guide CAE in our mission to improve student outcomes,” said Yayac.

ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP Announces Transition

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Chicago, IL, Jan. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP announced yesterday that he intends to step down from his current role on January 1, 2025, to establish the ACGME Center for Professionalism and the Future of Medicine.

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  • Chicago, IL, Jan. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP announced yesterday that he intends to step down from his current role on January 1, 2025, to establish the ACGME Center for Professionalism and the Future of Medicine.
  • The ACGME Board of Directors will undertake a national search to identify the next President and CEO.
  • While improving the accreditation process, Dr. Nasca also strengthened the ACGME as an organization.
  • ACGME Board Chair Ms. Claudia Wyatt-Johnson, a public member of the Board, said of Dr. Nasca, “Tom personifies the public’s highest expectations for physicians.

aTyr Pharma Announces Howard University President Emeritus Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick as Advisor

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Dr. Frederick is President Emeritus of Howard University, having served as President from 2014 to 2023.

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  • Dr. Frederick is President Emeritus of Howard University, having served as President from 2014 to 2023.
  • “We are honored to welcome a distinguished physician executive such as Dr. Frederick as an advisor to aTyr,” said Sanjay S. Shukla, M.D., M.S., President and Chief Executive Officer of aTyr.
  • He is also the distinguished Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine and a practicing cancer surgeon at Howard University Hospital.
  • Dr. Frederick earned a B.S., M.D., and completed his surgical residency training at Howard University Hospital.

Fontana Attorney Douglas Borthwick Receives Prestigious NAOPIA Recognition As 2024 Top Ranked Personal Injury Attorney

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Monday, January 29, 2024
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Through a stringent, multiple stage selection process, NAOPIA awards the best Personal Injury attorneys in each state with the most prestigious honor.

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  • Through a stringent, multiple stage selection process, NAOPIA awards the best Personal Injury attorneys in each state with the most prestigious honor.
  • Because Attorney Douglas Borthwick has demonstrated an extraordinary amount of knowledge, skill, expertise and success in his practice of Personal Injury, NAOPIA has awarded him with their highest honors.
  • Attorney Borthwick is also AV® rated, the highest possible attorney peer review rating in both legal ability and ethical standards.
  • Attorney Douglas Borthwick has further achieved a "SUPERB" Rating from Avvo, the highest evaluation given by the nationally acclaimed attorney rating agency.

Infleqtion Accelerates Commercialization of Quantum Products at Scale with Silicon Photonics Acquisitions

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Monday, January 29, 2024
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Infleqtion, the world's leading quantum information company, today announced it has acquired two integrated silicon photonics companies: SiNoptiq Inc. and Morton Photonics Inc. These acquisitions enable Infleqtion to expedite plans for chip-scale integration of lasers and photonic and atomic systems, which is essential for commercializing quantum products, such as sensors and quantum computers, as well as bolstering the overall quantum supply chain and enabling quantum manufacturing at scale.

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  • These acquisitions enable Infleqtion to expedite plans for chip-scale integration of lasers and photonic and atomic systems, which is essential for commercializing quantum products, such as sensors and quantum computers, as well as bolstering the overall quantum supply chain and enabling quantum manufacturing at scale.
  • "These acquisitions enhance our ability to deliver high-value quantum solutions with the scale and resiliency required by critical sectors like defense and for business-critical enterprise deployments.
  • It's another great example of how Infleqtion is leading the industry toward commercialization of quantum solutions."
  • Silicon nitride is a critical foundational platform for quantum applications, enabling high-performance photonic lasers and the application of photonics to quantum solutions from the visible to the mid-infrared.