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Where Determinism Meets Data: Daniel Lodu and Fredrik Sande on Building the Full-Stack Medical Device Lifecycle with QNX and RaimaDB

Q1.  How does the QNX OS for Safety microkernel architecture isolate deterministic, safety-critical motor control paths — from a laparoscopic grasper’s continuous force feedback to an orthopedic bone mill’s rigid haptic boundaries — from unpredictable processing spikes...

The Latency Dilemma: Steve Graves on Why Standard Flash Management Fails Time-Critical Systems

Q1 Your white paper (*) makes a compelling case that traditional Flash Translation Layers (FTLs) – whether vendor-provided or open-source – fundamentally conflict with real-time database requirements. Can you explain the specific mechanisms by...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kätlin Pulk on What Generative AI Is Really Doing to Higher Education — and What Educators Should Do About It

Q1. You and Riina Koris chose the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly deliberately — a framing that signals a refusal to take either the optimistic or the catastrophist position that dominates most public discourse...

AI for Smarties: A Conversation with Bertrand Meyer

Q1. You open AI for Smarties by acknowledging that you kept meeting highly educated people who were fascinated by AI but, in your words, “had no clue of what’s inside” — unable to answer what a neuron...

When Freedom and Authenticity Diverge: James Brusseau on What Philosophy Sees in GenAI That No Other Discipline Does

Q1.  You have written about “acceleration AI ethics” — an approach that argues for using ethics to enable and accelerate GenAI innovation rather than primarily to constrain it, in contrast to the precautionary approach that...

Halving Hallucinations: Jacek Cala on NICD’s Breakthrough Research into Graph-Based RAG and What It Means for Enterprise AI

Q1. Your team’s research shows that introducing graph-based tools into a RAG system can significantly increase the precision and recall of factual correctness, halve the number of hallucinated answers, and achieve the highest fine-grained...

Sovereignty Starts with the Hardware: Paul Speciale and Patricia Hillebrand on Building AI Infrastructure Europeans Can Actually Control

Q1 The partnership between Pyramid Computer and Scality sits at the intersection of two trends that are increasingly in tension: the urgency to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, and the growing organizational and regulatory pressure to...