Science & Engineering
Hard tech, research breakthroughs, and the people pushing the frontier.
EP 08William Norden
William Norden: Building Neural Networks from Scratch in C and What Most AI Engineers Skip
A Still Human conversation with William Norden — Research Engineer at Santa Clara University, neuromorphic computing researcher, and the rare builder who writes neural networks in C from scratch. We get into the intelligence augmentation argument, the high-dimensional tapestry of global problems, and why Russian piano pedagogy and USTA tennis show up in his backpropagation.
EP 06Lilian Krengel
Building Traffic Lights for Space: Lilian Krengel on AI, Orbital Congestion, and Student Founding
A Santa Clara sophomore on building AI traffic lights for space, the Kessler Effect, and what it means when someone copies your startup in a weekend.
EP 04Bailley Georgieva
AI Is the Ultimate People Pleaser: Bailley Georgieva on Hypersonics, Critical Thinking, and What Stays Human at Mach 10
A 21-year-old hypersonic researcher on why AI is the ultimate people pleaser, the cost of complacency, and what stays human at Mach 10.
EP 02Michael Iwashima
Why AI Can’t Reason Over Time: Michael Iwashima on Brain-Computer Interfaces, Biosensors, and Building From Nothing
A bioengineer on why AI still can’t reason over time, what a soccer injury taught him about building from nothing, and where humans still matter most — brain-computer interfaces, biosensors, and accessibility tech.