Rocket City, the first time

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AI Symposium at the Space and Rocket Center

Name
AI Symposium 2025: Autonomous vs. HITL (Human-in-the-Loop)
Dates
28 to 30 January 2025
Venue
Space Camp Operations Building, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama
Host
U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the Space Camp Institute, with Cyber Huntsville
Programme
cyberhuntsville.org

Trip 27 to 30 January 2025 · Written up 30 January 2025 · Last expanded 29 September 2026

The first of two January trips to Huntsville, for the AI Symposium at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in the weeks after DeepSeek landed. The account of this trip, the Saturn V, the Silicon Valley of the South and all, is in the combined Huntsville write-up; the photographs from January 2025 live here.

Photographs

A Saturn V rocket standing upright against a clear sky beside a museum building
Rocket City. The Saturn V outside the US Space and Rocket Center.
A large F-1 rocket engine nozzle displayed outdoors
An F-1 engine. The plumbing that got to the Moon.
Slide titled How to Create a Business Case Step by Step at the AI Symposium
A business case for AI, step by step.
Panel on the uniqueness of AI-enabled systems seated on stage in an auditorium
Panel on the uniqueness of AI-enabled systems.
Slide of the observe orient decide act loop with drone imagery
OODA, with drones. Space Systems Command's version.
A large rocket engine bell in a museum hall with a Saturn stage behind
Inside the Davidson Center. Engineering at a scale that still stops you.

Links

The programme, and the write-up when it exists. To be added.

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Data Scientist, AI Strategist, and now apparently AI researcher. Perpetual student, and also conference/workshop-surfer.