This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro

You can dress them up, you can dress them down, and you can use them anywhere.

Drones are technology's new little black dress; delivering everything from bombs, to life-saving medicine,  and this week we're going to talk to some experts from Northeast Ohio who are helping train the students who will be the backbone of tomorrow's professional drone workforce.

Our featured guests are Dr. Manigandan "Mani" Kannan, who is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Akron, and Kent State University Assistant Aeronautics Professor, Jason Lorenzon.

Kannan, who is the Advisor for the U-A drone team, tells us they won second place two years in a row, in a prestigious national competition, beating out a number of much bigger, and more well-funded schools.

Lorenzon, who is also an Attorney, wrote the book, "Drone Law: The Past Present And The Future", a few years ago, on the laws that regulate how drones can be used in the United States, which he is the process of revising as both drone technology and public policy related to it, evolve.

Listen now as we set the stage with stories about how little drones are making a big difference in major military conflicts around the world, as well as helping to save lives here in the United States.

While the US Government mends fences with Anthropic, which recently introduced an AI tool known as "Mythos",which they claim is so powerful it can punch holes in even the most powerful cybersecurity safeguards today; we're heading down an entirely new path with even faster, stronger, and better technology.

That's because it is based on quantum physics, and as such;  is capable of computational speed and complex operations that can run circles around every kind of system and program that we have today.
The downside is that it is still in development,  though, as you'll hear today; it is getting closer to becoming the next big thing in more than just theory.

Our special guest is Dr. Ronald M. Reano, who is a Professor at The Ohio State University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  as well as the Co-Director of their Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering.

There, he is working on ways to vastly improve cybersecurity, by securely sending quantum particles that are immune from eavesdropping, over a wired network.

Listen now to find out how far they've gotten in their quest to reach that goal, and what a future with networked quantum computers could hold.
 

Biography: Ronald M. Reano received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, where he leads the Integrated Optics Laboratory. Prof. Reano’s research focuses on chipscale integrated photonics for innovation in sensors, communications systems, and computing. Prof. Reano served as The Optical Society (OSA), Frontiers in Optics, Integrated Photonics Subcommittee Chair in 2013 and 2014. He served as Program CoChair for the 2015 OSA Annual Meeting. Prof. Reano is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Optics Express. He is also the faculty advisor for the OSA Student Chapter at The Ohio State University and is an OSA Traveling Lecturer. Prof. Reano is the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Ohio State University College of Engineering McCarthy Teaching Award.
Degrees
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1996
• B.S., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 1991

While the US Government mends fences with Anthropic, which recently introduced an AI tool known as "Mythos", which they claim is so powerful it can punch holes in even the most powerful cybersecurity safeguards today; we're heading down an entirely new path with even faster, stronger, and better technology.

That's because it is based on quantum physics, and as such;  is capable of computational speed and complex operations that can run circles around every kind of system and program that we have today.
The downside is that it is still in development,  though, as you'll hear today; it is getting closer to becoming the next big thing in more than just theory.

Our special guest is Dr. Ronald M. Reano, who is a Professor at The Ohio State University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  as well as the Co-Director of their Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering.

There, he is working on ways to vastly improve cybersecurity, by securely sending quantum particles that are immune from eavesdropping, over a wired network.

Listen now to find out how far they've gotten in their quest to reach that goal, and what a future with networked quantum computers could hold.
 

Biography: Ronald M. Reano received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, where he leads the Integrated Optics Laboratory. Prof. Reano’s research focuses on chipscale integrated photonics for innovation in sensors, communications systems, and computing. Prof. Reano served as The Optical Society (OSA), Frontiers in Optics, Integrated Photonics Subcommittee Chair in 2013 and 2014. He served as Program CoChair for the 2015 OSA Annual Meeting. Prof. Reano is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Optics Express. He is also the faculty advisor for the OSA Student Chapter at The Ohio State University and is an OSA Traveling Lecturer. Prof. Reano is the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Ohio State University College of Engineering McCarthy Teaching Award.
Degrees
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1996
• B.S., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 1991

While the US Government mends fences with Anthropic, which recently introduced an AI tool known as "Mythos", which they claim is so powerful it can punch holes in even the most powerful cybersecurity safeguards today; we're heading down an entirely new path with even faster, stronger, and better technology.

That's because it is based on quantum physics, and as such;  is capable of computational speed and complex operations that can run circles around every kind of system and program that we have today.

The downside is that it is still in development,  though, as you'll hear today; it is getting closer to becoming the next big thing in more than just theory.

Our special guest is Dr. Ronald M. Reano, who is a Professor at The Ohio State University's Department of Electrical and Computer Science, as well as the Co-Director of their Center for Quantum Science and Engineering.

There, he is working on ways to vastly improve cybersecurity, by sending quantum particles that are immune from eavesdropping,  securely over a wired network.

Listen now to find out how far they've gotten in their quest to reach that goal, and what a future with networked quantum computers could hold.
Biography: Ronald M. Reano received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, where he leads the Integrated Optics Laboratory. Prof. Reano’s research focuses on chipscale integrated photonics for innovation in sensors, communications systems, and computing. Prof. Reano served as The Optical Society (OSA), Frontiers in Optics, Integrated Photonics Subcommittee Chair in 2013 and 2014. He served as Program CoChair for the 2015 OSA Annual Meeting. Prof. Reano is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Optics Express. He is also the faculty advisor for the OSA Student Chapter at The Ohio State University and is an OSA Traveling Lecturer. Prof. Reano is the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Ohio State University College of Engineering McCarthy Teaching Award.

Degrees

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1996
B.S., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 1991

Hats off to Todd Rundgren, who inspired today's headline with his ever-popular 1982 classic hit, "Bang The Drum", because that's certainly what I'm doing (at least in my head) today, thinking about a unique fusion of art, music, and technology that's happening right here in Northeast Ohio.

While Akron used to be known as the "Rubber Capital of The World"; it is now considered the nation's premier polymer tech hub, with millions of dollars pouring in from both the federal government and private industry to fund research and development of advanced, sustainable polymers.

But Professor Markus Vogl is doing something different, more colorful, and more creative, with polymers. He's making and selling custom, 3-D printed drums that are not only cool to look at, but also smokin' hot to play!

Listen now to find out how Vogl is using technology to turn art into music, music into money, and business know-how, into practical lessons for the artists and engineering students who take his classes on 3-D printing at the University of Akron Myers School of Art.