Google’s Eremenko speaks as part of Presidential Lecture Series
October 9, 2014
President Mitch Daniels and Paul Eremenko |
President Mitch Daniels and Paul Eremenko, who currently heads Project Ara in Google's Advanced Technology & Projects (ATAP) organization, discuss innovation at Google, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and elsewhere during the second lecture of the Fall 2014 Presidential Lecture Series. The lecture, titled "Models of Innovation," was held Wednesday (Oct. 8) in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse.
Project Ara is an effort to create a modular hardware ecosystem -- rivaling the mobile app ecosystem in pace and level of innovation -- around smartphones in an effort to deliver the mobile Internet to the next 5 billion people. Prior to Google, Eremenko led the Tactical Technology Office at DARPA, where he was responsible for the agency's X-plane, space, robotics and manufacturing programs. Eremenko is also a research affiliate at MIT in the Engineering Systems Division.
Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series features prominent experts and practitioners from various fields of interest for both academics and the community at large. Speakers will touch on topics relating to policy, leadership, culture and society. The series continues on Oct. 27 with “A View from Washington," featuring Mara Liasson, the national political correspondent for NPR.
Liasson's reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, D.C. -- focusing on the White House and Congress -- and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway. The lecture is at 6:30 p.m. in Loeb Playhouse.
More on the Presidential Lecture Series is here.