by Michael Pickering | Dec 6, 2018 | Technology
This week, many elementary schools are doing an “Hour of Code” during Computer Science Education week. Since I’m attending the NeurIPS conference in Montreal this week, I’ll help out with Hour of Code sessions at my kids’ school next week...
by Michael Pickering | Oct 31, 2018 | Technology
It’s Halloween Night, a fine time for our new animated AI DJ persona, Viola, to make her debut. Here she is with a special message! Please sign up for our mailing list to receive updates on when characters like Viola can be added to your own animated AI DJ...
by Michael Pickering | Oct 30, 2018 | Technology
During the World Summit AI in Amsterdam, we announced a partnership with Volumio, the open source audio player. Since then, we’ve been working hard on an initial prototype for an AI assistant to provide voice control of the Volumio player. These efforts have...
by Michael Pickering | Oct 15, 2018 | Technology
A quick update on one of my activities during World Summit AI in Amsterdam. XPRIZE hosted a panel discussion on “Over the edge AI – startups making breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity”. I was proud to be on stage with other IBM Watson AI XPRIZE...
by Michael Pickering | Oct 10, 2018 | Technology
I was able to capture this photo of the opening of the show this morning. It was quite the big production, and the conference appears to be about full! The program today should be exciting, but I need to head out to prepare for the panel discussion and workshop with...
