Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Amelia innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She's a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She's a 2019-2020 Mozilla Foundation Open Web Fellow in partnership with MIT Open Doc Lab, and MIT's Co-Creation Studio working on ethics and values-driven software development toolkit, among many other accomplishments. In 2019. She was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama's world headquarters for the summit on fostering universal ethics and compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a MacArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 Video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star. She holds a bachelor's degree in art and visual technologies from George Mason University, a master's degree in transmedia from the University of Texas at Austin, and MPS and ITP from New York University.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• StudioAmelia.com
• Digital Worlds Institute
• MIT Open Doc Lab
• MIT's Co-Creation Studio
• Wendy Red Star
• Seneca-Cayuga Nation
• Eastman School of Music
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
• Ethical Source
• AlphaGo
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
• Stack Overflow
• No-Funding.com

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The conversation this week is with Bryant Cruse. Bryant has been a pioneer in the application of AI technology to difficult real-world problems. He graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he acquired his lifelong interest in the philosophy of Epistemology. Or how we know what we know. After serving for eight years as a naval aviator, he returned to school for an MS in Space Systems Engineering from John Hopkins. While on the mission operations team for the Hubble Telescope, he found a personal mission to change the way spacecraft was operated by seeking a way to capture human knowledge and computers. This work led him to a six-month residency at the Lockheed AI Center in Palo Alto, he went on to found two successful AI companies, both of which were ultimately acquired by public corporations. New Sapience is his third technology company. The patented technology represents more than 15 years of development and a lifetime of thinking from first principles.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• New Sapience
• MySapiens.com
• Forward to the Future
• Lockheed Advanced Technology Center
• Symbolic artificial intelligence
• Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning
• Stochastic Optimization Algorithms
• Aristotle's Categories
• Western Canon Books
• Turing test
• Carl Rogers Psychologist Biography
• ELIZA effect

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The conversation this week is with Rob Telson. Rob is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated successful history working in the software and semiconductor industry, skilled and driving growth, negotiation, sales management, organizational leadership and technology. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Harvard Business School, and is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at BrainChip Holdings Limited, a company that is focused on software and hardware-accelerated solutions for advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• BrainChip Holdings Limited
• BrainChipInc on Youtube
• Neuromorphic Computing
• Akida Neural Processor
• MobileNetV1 Explained
• TinyML Foundation
• Brownfield vs. Greenfield Development

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The conversation this week is with Brandon Satrom. Brandon is the VP of Developer Experience and Engineering at Blues Wireless, a driven technologist and experienced leader with a background in product management, strategy, architecture, software development and developer advocacy. He describes himself as a technologist first, and loves to use what he knows and learns to teach others how to build things and solve problems with the latest technologies and platforms. Finally, he has a mentor at the RIoT Accelerator Program, and will actually be presenting at our applied AI meetup on July 7, he'll be speaking on Smarter Everything with the ML and the IoT. 

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Blues Wireless
• RIoT.org
• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi
• TensorFlow
• Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology
• JSON Syntax
• Edge Impulse
• NDC Porto Conference for Software Developers
• TinyML: Machine Learning
• Grokking Deep Learning
• Hackster.io

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The conversation this week is with Jigyasa Grover. Jigyasa recently co-authored a book titled Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning. The book is a combination of a myriad of experiences from brief stints at Facebook, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Institute of Research and Development France, involving data science, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a master's degree in computer science and an artificial intelligence specialization. Jigyasa is presently applying her past experiences and knowledge towards applied machine learning in the online advertisement prediction and ranking domain. She served as the director of Women Who Code and lead of Women Techmakers for a handful of years to help bridge the gender gap and technology. In her quest to build a powerful community of girls and boys alike. And believing we rise by lifting others. She mentored aspiring developers and machine learning enthusiasts in various global programs.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Follow Jigyasa Grover on Twitter
• Sculpting Data for ML: The First Act of Machine Learning
• Women Who Code
• Women Techmakers
• Internet Relay Chat
• Google Summer of Code
• FOSSASIA
• Pharo
• General Data Protection Regulation

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The conversation this week is with Prasanna Balaprakash. Prasanna is a group leader and computer scientist at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the leadership computing facility at Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests span the areas of machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing. He is the recipient of the US Department of Energy 2018 Early Career Award, and is the artificial intelligence thrust lead at Rapids, the Department of Energy Computer Science Institute that assists application teams in overcoming computer science data and AI challenges. He is the principal investigator on several Department of Energy-funded projects that focus on the Department of scalable machine learning methods for scientific and engineering applications. Prior to Argonne, Prasanna worked as a chief technology officer at Mentis, a machine learning startup in Brussels, Belgium. He received his Ph.D. from IRIDIA, the AI Lab at the UOB, in Brussels, Belgium.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Rapids
• Mentis
• IRIDIA
• Algorithm Configuration
• Convolutional neural network
• Graph Neural Networks
• Surrogate model
• Natural Language Processing
• Globus
• Neuromorphic Computing

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The conversation this week is with Caroline Sinders. Caroline is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology's impact on society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design+Research an agency focused on the intersection of machine learning, user research, designing for the public good and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Caroline holds a Bachelor's of fine arts and a Master's of Professional Studies from New York University.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Convocation Design+Research
• IBM Watson
• Bluemix
• Information Commissioner's Office
• Common Method Bias and Harman's single factor test
• Remote work since Covid-19 is exacerbating harm
• Omidyar Network
• Feminist Data Set
• CrowdFlower
• Ars Electronica

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The conversation this week is with Erik Beall. Erik is an imaging AI scientist and product developer. Eric is the CEO of Thermal Diagnostics, where he has developed the fever inspect a thermal imaging based product that helps keep us all safe by providing accurate, reliable and foolproof fever detection. He's also a computer vision scientist at Digilabs where he is using AI for various applications for autonomous ground robots, with rover robotics and other Digilab companies. Eric holds a BA in physics and chemistry from St. Olaf College, a degree in business administration and management from the University of St. Thomas, and a PhD in physics from the University of Minnesota.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Thermal Diagnostics
• Linux From Scratch
• Understanding Dataset Shift
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
• Principle of Computational Equivalence
• Partition Pruning
• RISC-V
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
• Object-Oriented Design
• Introduction to GitLab Flow

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The conversation this week is with Tim Kraska. Tim is a professor at MIT in their Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and a Co-Founder at Einblick, where they are developing the first visual data computing platform based on six years of research at MIT and Brown University. Tim holds a Master of Information Technology from the University of Sydney, a postdoc in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• Einblick
• MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• ETH Zurich
• Progressive Approximation
• Jupyter Notebook
• ‎Google Colab
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng

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The conversation this week is with Robert Parker. Robert has engineered some of today's biggest life-changing innovations from Amazon Alexa to Fire TV and Prime music. Robert has disrupted everyday consumer life with voice assistance, and entertainment technology. After serving as a Director of Engineering at Amazon for five years, Robert became the CTO of SmartThings, leading the company's product and engineering teams while building the proprietary platform. From SmartThings Robert teamed up with Alex to develop the newest transformative platform bright AI. As a co-founder, Robert develops the technology that makes industry disruption and extraordinary growth opportunities possible. Prior to creating groundbreaking technologies, Robert spent 18 years as a general manager at Microsoft, as an industry award winner and recognized technical leader, he holds more than 20 patents of his own.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• SmartThings
• BrightAI
• Kevin Ashton
• CSC
• MIT AI Course
• Khan Academy Machine Learning Course
• Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng

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