Author Archive for: Maggie
Entries by Maggie
Creative Imaginative Robots – A conversation with Ryota Kanai
Tara Chklovski: What problem are you working on? Ryota Kanai: We are an AI startup and we work with big companies and help them solve their problems. Most of the problems are related to image recognition. For example, one of the projects was a very Japanese one – to count the number of tuna in […]
Computational Drug Discovery: An Interview with Dr. Anne Carpenter
Tara Chklovski: What problem are you working on? Anne Carpenter: My group is developing software to accelerate drug discovery. Normally a researcher works on a single disease, devoting her entire life to studying it. We are working on a general software tool for image analysis. You may wonder why we need image analysis to cure […]
Learning how Natural Language Processing is helping us understand ourselves better: An Interview with Rada Mihalcea
Tara Chklovski: What problem are you trying to solve? Rada Mihalcea: I work in Artificial Intelligence, and then within that, Natural Language Processing (NLP) which is about building computer programs that deal with language. A traditional NLP example (that I am not working on), is machine translation — through which text in one language, say […]
“A combination of curiosity and confidence”: A conversation with John Maloney
It sounded to me much like Etoys. Mitch planned to get Scratch out to large numbers of kids, initially through the Computer Clubhouse network and then through an online website to as many people as possible. As he talked, I thought: “Oh, oh, oh! I can build that, I can build that!” Alan’s team had […]
Assistive Technologies and finding the right problems to solve: a conversation on AI with Maja Matarić
Tara Chklovski: What inspires you? Maja Matarić: I don’t think I always knew what inspired me, but have now finally realized that what really motivates and drives me is helping the underdog. I realized I am just a person who really wants to feel like they’re helping someone – and that’s how I came to discover assistive […]
The Creative Workforce of Tomorrow: A Conversation on AI with Katherine Barr
A few weeks ago, I spoke with Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, Katherine Barr, about ideas that disrupt markets. Katherine is a board member for WorkFusion, an automation platform that uses artificial intelligence as a superpower to reduce time and costs spent on rote and repetitive enterprise tasks and elevate people to complete more […]
Iridescent’s 2017 Impact and Goals for 2018
Iridescent is now in its 12th year, and entering a different stage in operation. Since 2006, we have been scaling our programs worldwide. This past year, we focused our efforts on building robust, responsive systems on three fronts: 1) training and supporting partners 2) collecting and analyzing impact data and 3) sharing formative evaluation results with […]