A Conversation with Gemini Notebook Co-Creator Steven Johnson ’90

Name: A Conversation with Gemini Notebook Co-Creator Steven Johnson ’90
Start: 2026-12-01T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-01T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Stephen Robert Hall/Watson Institute/Room 101

Schedule

Tue Dec 01 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Stephen Robert Hall/Watson Institute/Room 101 | Providence, RI

Join Provost Francis J. Doyle III for a distinguished lecture on AI featuring Brown alumnus Steven Johnson on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2026.
About this Event

Johnson is the co-creator of NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), winner of the 2024 Webby Award for best AI productivity and work application. Now serving as editorial director at Google Labs, Johnson is also the bestselling author of 14 books about science, technology and the history of innovation, including “The Ghost Map,” “Where Good Ideas Come From” and the Edgar Award-winning “The Infernal Machine.” He was the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS series “How We Got To Now” and the series “Extra Life” and writes the newsletter “Adjacent Possible.” Johnson graduated from Brown in 1990 with a degree in semiotics (now modern culture and media).

The lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m., with a moderated Q&A to follow.