Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D.

“What we do ... will echo through generations to come.” AI/Robotics Sage, Author, CMU Robotics Ph.D., Crypto Fan, HS Football Coach, Centrist ❤️BEBE!

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

37 games and you finished as a champion! 💍Thanks for taking all these pictures - it meant a lot to me. I loved watching you play! Very proud of you and can't wait to see what's next. Love you bud!

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

@elonmusk First self-driving car trip across the country!! 31 years ago!!

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

It was great talking to @harold_aughton of the 228 Times about No Hands Across America and the memoir book series. I enjoyed talking about some of the details of the trip and how they relate to things happening today and people‘s perception of them.

As a sidenote, the 228 Times is really neat example of how hyper-local media can take hold and can provide views and insights that larger publication sometimes can’t. 

https://t.co/midpQjlQdO

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

It was great talking to @harold_aughton of the 228 Times about No Hands Across America and the memoir book series. I enjoyed talking about some of the details of the trip and how they relate to things happening today and people‘s perception of them.

As a sidenote, the 228 Times is really neat example of how hyper-local media can take hold and can provide views and insights that larger publication sometimes can’t. 

https://t.co/midpQjlQdO

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Nineteen years ago today I sold Applied Perception.

Funny what sticks with you. Not the money — what I remember is the closing happened the same week as the Showcase for Commerce in Johnstown, so our team spent the day standing at a booth next to our own robots, already flying a new company's banner.

That night I loaded the REX and REV onto a trailer and drove them home to Pittsburgh in a pickup truck. Stopped for gas on Route 22, called Barb, told her it was done. Got home late, unloaded, went to bed.

The next morning I logged in, saw the wire had cleared, and that was that. No fireworks. Just a good, quiet feeling.

The best part came after — Barb and I set aside a share of the proceeds and wrote a personal check to every single person on the team. They earned it.

That's the chapter we built New Beginnings around. Hard to believe it's been nineteen years.

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[Pine-Richland Football Champions Account @PRRamsFootball]

#RamFamily This is the second Wharton and at least third Ivy leaguer from our teams.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Had the opportunity to work with @Austin_Ellis412 during @NHIndiansFB Spring Ball. Have been told he’s pretty good on the diamond. Can confirm he’s equally good on the gridiron.

A natural for modern offenses. This is gonna be fun.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

🔥

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Winston Churchill's collected works. Somehow he managed to write all of these as well as being a politician. He mostly dictated them, but that's just as much work for the brain, if not for the hand.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Yep. And many don’t like it at all.

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

I've written for the last decade about the educational divide in the US, but culturally there is now a large divide between generations — specifically those over sixty versus basically everyone else.

The sixty-plus cohort (Boomers which I'm at the very tail end of) have a lot more certainty that they've discovered the Truth — or the high point, and often end point, of many things. From music (rock will always be here), to fashion (why would anyone wear anything but blue jeans), to politics (liberal democracy with emancipation from all forms of obligation as a human Telos).

Younger people are much more uncertain and relativistic. They don't accept the claim that it's been solved, and the Boomers' rigidity and religious-like certainty seems to them either laughably naive or arrogantly condescending.

The Boomers see everyone else as having fallen away from the path to historical perfection they paved, and are uniformly angry about that. What most of the Boomers miss is that the younger generation is living in the world they built — of hyper-individuality, of smashing of prior norms, and of moral relativism.

This post-truth, post-gatekeeping, hyper-partisan world is an endpoint of their worldview, and yet they are angry about it.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Yes, this is Peyton Manning’s son.

But his basic fundamentals are excellent and anyone can do them. Very good footwork and excellent ball carriage.

One thing to get better at: would like to see more throws off the plant. Age and strength will help that.

[uSTADIUM @uSTADIUM]

This is Marshall Manning, Peyton’s 14 year-old son, spinning it. He is prepping for his 9th grade season this fall.

Marshall is expected to be in the recruiting class of 2030. (🎥: qbc_chattanooga on IG).

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

This is great for this kid and WPIAL.

Congrats to @EHeidenreich44 !!

[Pittsburgh Steelers @steelers]

What a moment for @EHeidenreich44 🥹

📺: 2026 NFL Draft April 23-25 on NFLN/ESPN/ABC

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

RT @B_DiNucci6: Two QB’s have been drafted under Curt Cignetti in his head coach career…

- Fernando Mendoza
- Some dude named Ben DiNucci

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Absolutely amazing.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

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[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Writing New Beginnings meant going back through 20 years of material I hadn't touched since we were building defense robots for the Pentagon.

Medic robots. The Tibbetts Award. The acquisition. All the Roboburgh coverage.

It's all in The Archive at Jochem Family Press 👇

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

NASA needs to hire @SpaceX to produce their videos of landings.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

The full stories behind the talk are in my memoir series — Driven and New Beginnings, available on Amazon: https://t.co/jk6UYSZY3a

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Spoke with the @PiKappaAlpha Network for a talk called "Dare to Be Great" — about the leap from small-town Indiana to @CMU_Robotics, starting companies with no VC, and why defining your "enough" matters more than chasing someone else's.

You never feel ready. Go anyway.

🎥👇https://t.co/FZ9Tt8d5x8

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

Best 6 letters…

CMU PHD

[CMU School of Computer Science @SCSatCMU]

CMU ranks first for overall graduate computer science programs, tied with MIT and Stanford. Among CS programs, CMU also earned No. 1 rankings in Programming Language, Artificial Intelligence, and Systems, along with a No. 2 ranking in Theory.

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[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

Jamie Dimon’s annual JPMorgan letter has a section on AI and here 5 key quotes:

▫️ “I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that AI will cure some cancers, create new composites and reduce accidental deaths. It will eventually reduce the workweek in the developed world. And people will live longer and safer."

▫️ “There will be a wide variety of AI models — open and closed, large and small — and no single tool will dominate."

▫️ “AI will also introduce serious new risks — from deepfakes and misinformation to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. These risks are real, but they are manageable if companies, regulators and governments prepare.”

▫️ “AI will definitely eliminate some jobs, while it enhances others…AI will create many jobs — some we can see today in cybersecurity and AI itself, and some we can't see. But we do know that there is a huge workforce shortage for many well-paying white- and blue-collar jobs.”

▫️ “huge technological shifts like AI always have second- and third-order effects as well that can deeply impact society. Some of these are, for example, cars bringing about the development of suburbs and shopping malls; agriculture enabling cities; and the original internet (invented back in 1969) leading to mobile phones, apps and social media. We should be monitoring for this kind of transformation, too.”

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

@EricBalchunas And Mara’s hands are unbelievable for a 7’2” kid. Made several great catches over the past 2 games.

[Coach Todd Jochem, Ph.D. @ToddJochem]

@EricBalchunas These teams are so talented.