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Andy Palanisamy (Director, Smart Cities at Parsons Corporation) provides his personal views on how cities evaluate innovation opportunities, new urban data paradigms, mobility, and his path from India thru Harvard and into Smart Cities. 

I encourage you to connect with Andy at https://www.linkedin.com/in/transportgooru/. 

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Or watch at https://youtu.be/WhzZkM2ZUfQ.

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800 million people around the world rely on subsistence fishing for a living.  Devleena Bhattacharjee discusses how her company, Numer8, uses satellite information, open data, and analytics to help subsistence fishing communities more accurately locate fish in real-time, so they spend less time at risk in the open sea, less money on fuel, and improve their catch.

Connect with Devleena at https://www.linkedin.com/in/devleenas/

Her company is at https://www.numer8.in/ofish

More information on their work:  https://www.techemerge.org/pilots/numer8

Episode video: https://youtu.be/YEntkB5r8Nw

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Dr. Timea Nochta is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Local Government Studies (Public Administration, University of Birmingham, UK), and an MSc in Architecture and Engineering (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary).

Dr. Nocta discusses her recent work examining how City Digital Twins can be used to better inform policy-makers on they consider the costs and benefits of municipal initiatives.   

Dr. Timea Nochta can be contaced at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/tn328 or https://www.linkedin.com/in/timeanochta.

Her paper "The Local Governance of Digital Technology – Implications for the City-Scale Digital Twin" can be found at https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/CDBBResearchBridgehead/2019ECRs/2019ECRNochta

Episode video: https://youtu.be/JLfgtNIKRD0

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(The Spanish version of this interview is published as Episode 7)

Dr. Jose Funes is an economic geographer with the Washington DC Mayor's Office of Planning.  He describes his use of spatial analytics and open data to pinpoint areas in Washington DC that would be most impacted by the health and unemployment effects of COVID.  He is originally from Honduras, and discusses how he has used spatial analytics to analyize West Nile, agricultural yields, rice nutrition in Rwanda, and now COVID impacts in Washington DC.  

Dr Jose Funes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-funes-phd-4a80856/)

Dr Jose Funes’ published paper that inspired this interview. (https://opdemographicdatahub-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/1d351bc1b80446adb84ababae0221441)

Episode video: https://youtu.be/uRsvkraykPs

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(The English version of this interview will be published in Episode 8)

Dr. Jose Funes es un geógrafo económico de la Oficina de Planificación de la Alcaldia de Washington DC. 

Recientemente publicó un artículo que examinó el doble impacto de COVID (salud, desempleo) en la fuerza laboral de Washington DC. (Vidas y medios de subsistencia: posibles impactos económicos y de salud de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la fuerza laboral del Distrito). Dr. Funes nos habla sobre el uso de la analítica espacial en este estudio y sobre su viaje personal desde Honduras a la Capital de los Estados Unidos.

Dr Jose Funes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-funes-phd-4a80856/)

Dr. Nachshon (Sean) Goltz and Dr. John Zeleznikow join me to discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence:    

Why it is important to understand how AI makes life and death decisions (such as autonomous cars navigating a busy street for example, or supply chain AI allocating scarce medicines to patients)  

What happens when the AI makes a life and death decision different than the one we we would make personally?   

We discuss the Trolley Car problem, which postulates that a trolley car is travelling uncontrollably and will kill one of two groups of people.  How should the trolley (i.e. autonomous car, supply chain AI agent) decide which group lives and which dies?  Would you make a different choice? 

How does the Jewish tradition approach this question?  How does the Holocaust inform how autonomous cars might make this decision?    

Dr. Nachshon (Sean Goltz) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia . You can connect with Sean at his University (https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/business-and-law/faculty/profiles/senior-lecturer/dr-nachshon-sean-goltz) or on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nachshon-sean-goltz-b93744132/).   

Dr. John Zeleznikow is a Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. You can connect with John at his University contact here - https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jzeleznikow.  

This podcast was inspired by the article "From the Tree of Knowledge and the Golem of Prague to Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes", which was authored by Dr. Sean Goltz, Dr. John Zeleznikow, and Dr. Tracey Dowdeswell, and can be found here (https://academic.oup.com/ojlr/article-abstract/9/1/132/5877403?redirectedFrom=fulltext)  Please look for a separate podcast episode with Dr. Dowdeswell on "The 4 Legal Personas of AI".    

*Any views and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal and belong solely to the podcast owner or guest and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner or guest may or may not be associated with professionally.

Thank you for listening to the first four episodes!  This short bonus episode gives a quick update on metrics, and also announces an "Ask Me Anything" opportunity (AMA).  Have a question on technology?  What is 5G?  How does edge compute benefit me?  How do I think about adding AI to my OEM product?  

*Any views and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal and belong solely to the podcast owner or guest and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner or guest may or may not be associated with professionally.

Dr. Tracey Dowdeswell discusses how Artificially Intelligent agents are evolving to the point that they will soon acquire legal personas.  Just like Corporations are legal entities, AI agents also will soon acquire legal entity status, so that you can interact with them, negotiate and sign contracts with them, and also sue for damages.  

She describes the current thought on the 4 potential legal personas an Artificially Intelligent agent might acquire.  

Dr. Dowdeswell is Professor of Criminology at Douglas College in British Columbia, Canada.  You may connect with her here.

This podcast was inspired by the article "From the Tree of Knowledge and the Golem of Prague to Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes", which she co-authored with Dr. Sean Goltz and Dr. John Zeleznikow.  

Please look for an upcoming podcast with Sean and John on "Kosher Autonmous Cars".  

*Any views and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal and belong solely to the podcast owner or guest and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner or guest may or may not be associated with professionally.

John Gnadinger, Director of the Analytics and Business Intelligence Consortium at Carroll University (Waukesha WI) on how the Industry Consortium is a critical component of their analytics and business intelligence program.  The Consortium creates a virtuous loop:  guiding the academic program, then hiring students as interns and full-time employees.   

For more information about the Carroll University program, you can go to:  https://www.carrollu.edu/academics/business/analytics-and-business-intelligence-consortium. 

To connect with John Gnadinger, go to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gnadinger/

*Any views and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal and belong solely to the podcast owner or guest and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner or guest may or may not be associated with professionally.