Today, Google has announced “Suncatcher”—its plan for a space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system. Advanced Projects Group collaborated with Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team to create the physically accurate interactive visualizations that helped green-light the project internally.

Advanced Projects Group—led by myself (Stewart Smith) and Robert Gerard Pietrusko—worked directly with Pi co-founder Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Pi Senior Director Travis Beals, and their incredibly talented colleagues to create materials for pitching “Suncatcher” to Google / Alphabet executives—including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Our effort was a success.

Today I’m in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a guest speaker for the annual HarvardXR conference hosted by Harvard University. This year’s theme, “Extended Intelligence”, focuses on the convergence of AI and XR at Harvard and beyond.

HarvardXR’s goal is to provide a platform for students, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs to discuss how XR is shaping the future across different industries. I will be speaking at 2:20pm this afernoon in Room A: 1.321 as part of the Immersive Reality session, anchored by the legendary creative technologist, Bradley Munkowitz (AKA “GMUNK”). See the complete Speakers list.