Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

Kai-Fu Lee (李开复) is a Taiwanese venture capitalist, technology executive, writer, and computer scientist. He is currently based in Beijing, China.

Lee developed the world’s first speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon. He later worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and then Google.

He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, due to a one-year non-compete agreement that he signed with Microsoft in 2000 when he became its corporate vice president of interactive services. – June 2018
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Recorded June 29th, 2018
Shimon Ullman is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman’s main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines.

https://www.weizmann.ac.il
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Recorded January 21st, 1999
Ray Kurzweil spoke about his book The Age of Spiritual Machines about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity. First published in hardcover on January 1, 1999 by Viking, it has received attention from The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic. In the book Kurzweil outlines his vision for how technology will progress during the 21st century.
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