In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks baseball. For decades, coaches have relied on player performance stats to make in-game decisions and refine their season strategies. Now, AI led by Statcast is taking baseball strategy even further, massively broadening analytics data to include pitch, swing and catch trajectories, spin rates, biomechanical informa ... Show More
Yesterday
1040: Cybersecurity for the Agentic AI Era, with Amy Blackshaw
In Episode #1040, Amy Blackshaw (SVP at Palo Alto Networks) joins Jon Krohn to explain what changes about cybersecurity when attackers can think for free. Nearly every breach, Amy argues, comes down to someone getting hold of an identity they should not have had, and frontier AI ... Show More
34m 38s
Oct 27
1039: AI for Real Estate, Walkable Cities and Climate Action, with Prof. John Renne
In Episode #1039, Prof. John Renne (Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning at Tulane University) joins Jon Krohn to describe what happens when a tenured full professor goes back to school for a master’s in AI. John is a world-leading expert on transit-oriented development wh ... Show More
1h 27m
Oct 23
1038: AI’s Contentious Math Breakthroughs
In Episode #1038, Jon Krohn unpacks the remarkable and remarkably contentious run of mathematical results AI has produced in recent weeks, led by OpenAI’s claim to have cracked part of a million-dollar Millennium Prize problem. He lays out what was actually proved, the three big ... Show More
13m 12s
Aug 2024
Smart Talks with IBM: An AI advantage for the US Open
As AI technology progresses, its impact on our daily lives—including how we consume our favorite sports— will grow alongside it. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Jacob Goldstein, host of Pushkin’s own What’s Your Problem?, sat down with Brian Ryerson, Senior Director of D ... Show More
33m 38s
Jan 2025
Finding the competitive edge: how data and AI elevate your game
How are data and AI revolutionizing teams—whether on the field or in the boardroom? In this episode of Innovation Heroes, Casey Murphy, goalkeeper for the North Carolina Courage and the U.S. Women’s National Team, and Founder and Director of Operations of AP2T, Mike Olim, dive in ... Show More
23m 49s
May 2020
Buying Into Analytics and The Advantage of the Multisport Athlete With Dave Roberts
Steve and Pete are joined by manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Roberts, to discuss how they look at and assess multisport athletes, and how a player's expertise at one sport can translate to another. Later the guys chat about how analytics factor into their respective coac ... Show More
50m 7s
May 2020
Buying Into Analytics and The Advantage of the Multisport Athlete With Dave Roberts
Steve and Pete are joined by manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Roberts, to discuss how they look at and assess multisport athletes, and how a player's expertise at one sport can translate to another. Later the guys chat about how analytics factor into their respective coac ... Show More
50m 7s