Guru Madhavan
@BioengineerGM
Followers
1K
Following
5K
Media
547
Statuses
7K
Biomedical Systems Engineer ⁜ U.S. National Academy of Engineering @theNAEng ⁜ 📕 NEW BOOK 📘: WICKED PROBLEMS: How to Engineer a Better World @wwnorton
Washington, DC
Joined May 2011
🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them. 🌏 We chase disruption, ignoring foundational care that enables breakthroughs. My @TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever. ▶️Watch: https://t.co/OHTnG7YIGE
#engineering #innovation
1
0
1
The @RAEngNews honors the people who advance our profession, and it also honors the equations that have shaped the world. Along one of its walls, these eqns. show how we make sense of nature & improve life with precision and purpose. Take a moment to look them up. #engineering
0
0
1
Stoppard and Wilson's conversation is about how both scales are real, and both deserve attention. Extended Interview: https://t.co/G7wQrlzAhd "Unto Others" by Sober & Wilson: https://t.co/LnO5R4RFlD "Multilevel Cultural Evolution" by Wilson et al, 2023: https://t.co/WUFF9rOY9i
pnas.org
Evolutionary science has led to many practical applications of genetic evolution but few practical uses of cultural evolution. This is because the ...
0
0
0
This tension shows up in engineering too. Some focus on the user's immediate experience. Others think about the whole system. Good #engineering needs both perspectives, or you build something that feels right but doesn't work, or works but feels wrong.
1
0
0
Wilson examined altruism through actions and patterns that enable groups to endure. Stoppard held a more intimate, immediate view: while science may explain instinctive helping in bees or brainworms, it hasn't accounted for the consciously motivated kind unique to humans.
1
0
0
"The Hard Problem" of User and System Tom Stoppard's passing invites reflection on his 2015 exchange with evolutionist @David_S_Wilson. As Stoppard developed his play "The Hard Problem," Wilson's (and Elliott Sober's) work on altruism shaped his thinking https://t.co/DeQSsanr4X
theguardian.com
Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee
1
0
0
🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@RAEngNews), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (@theNAEng). Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering Photos: Rob Lacey.
1
1
7
🙏 On #NationalEngineeringDay UK, gratitude to everyone whose work powers it all.
0
0
2
Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future. https://t.co/R88gFGpHZ3
@RAEngNews
@ThisIsEng
1
1
2
A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose. The @RAEngNews, the @QEPrize, and the @theNAEng united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
0
1
1
Modern #engineering may run on sleek apps and algorithms, yet progress still depends on tinkering.
0
0
0
Two guys and a garage. The birthplace of Silicon Valley is a modest Palo Alto garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began their journey in 1938 with an audio oscillator, guided by Frederick Terman’s encouragement, long before the word startup meant anything.
1
0
0
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
497
9K
19K
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
411
8K
18K
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
466
12K
29K
🎥 From the @RAEngNews (with @_EngineeringUK): ⏱️"Think you know engineering? Think again" (1 min) 👉 https://t.co/nWk4TZVzZ1 ⏳"With engineering, you can make the impossible, possible" (30 sec) 👉
0
0
1
🎥 From the @theNAEng: ⏱️"Calling all big thinkers" (1 min) 👉 https://t.co/Mol4lttWcj ⏳"Thank engineers. Better yet, be one" (30 sec) 👉
1
0
0
📽️ Two voices. Two continents. Two academies. Four videos. One message: #engineering powers possibility. 🌍
1
0
0
🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️ ✨ In my latest column for the @theNAEng's Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy.🚨 🔗 https://t.co/ew5tCYT1Aw
0
0
0
🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows
https://t.co/v1GFv1bW3e
We’re pleased to announce the 74 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday’s AGM. By joining the Fellowship, they will lend their unique capabilities to achieving the Academy’s overarching strategic goal to engineer
0
0
4