President Obama Talks AI, Space Exploration and More at Carnegie Mellon U -- Campus Technology

President Obama traveled to Pittsburgh, PA today to speak on building up the United States' capacity for STEM innovation at the White House Frontiers Conference, a one-day national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The Frontiers Conference brought together global researchers, business leaders, technologists, philanthropists and local innovators to discuss how to keep Americans on the cutting edge of innovation with next-generation science and technology that will help improve lives. More than 700 innovators across academia, industry, government and civil society will participate in the conference, according to a White House fact sheet on the event. At the event, which was livestreamed, the president explored five "frontiers" of innovation: Leading up to the Frontiers Conference, Obama released a national plan for artificial intelligence yesterday. Obama also issued a space-weather Executive Order "to coordinate efforts to prepare the nation for space-weather events," according to the fact sheet.