dog ate my homework last night. I fell asleep a about 2 AM without getting to blogging. It had been a long and interesting day. We had a greta day of talks and panels as paert of our AI Week here. Anantha C, the MIT Dean of engineering kicked us off

we heard form my boss Dario, my freinds Lisa and David.. .. 

 

 

There was a great keynote by Megan Smith, former CTO of the USA under Obama.. she covered a ton of stuff about engagin

the public around saloving problems in the world. She had soem great ideas about the role of STEAM in doign that engagement

 

 

one image she had really struck me .. this is about the rise of partisanship in voting over the years, 

 

we had a great panel on  ai bias and ethics lead by Joi Ito at the media lab. 

 

 

Josh Tnnenbaum on computeres that lear like a chil 

 

my friends David and Antonio talking about he IBM MIT partnership 

 

ran into soem freinds at the break 

 

got a selfie with one of my heros.. Prof Peter Shor.. one of the fathers of Quantum 

 

the last paenl was a really nice coda.. 

David ran tthe panel wiht my firends Kathery, RUchir and Antonio 

 

after dinner we all ended up at Meadhall drinking  liter beers… \

 

which lead to us trying each others glasses. .. how do these look ? 

 

ruchir decided to stay over because there were tornadoes back in NY .. Luckily I ha a spare bedroom in the AIRBNB i’m renting this week.. so he stayed with me.. it was alike a slumber party !

 

today has been more meetings..  I had lunch with my friend Yael.. I found out she’s good friends  with my good friend Shmuel 

 

News from home.. Diane just sent me this great picture she found of me and Gabe !

 

ok.. gotta drop back into a meeting 

 

nite all, nite sam

-me