What is the nationality of the person who made the Google.ai announcement at Google I/O 2017?
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Google.ai Google.ai is a division of Google dedicated solely to artificial intelligence. It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Sundar Pichai Pichai Sundararajan (born 12 July 1972), also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive.
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John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He currently is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. He is also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.
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Skymind Skymind is an artificial intelligence company supporting the open source deep learning framework Deeplearning4j and the JVM-based scientific computing library ND4J. The company was founded in 2014 by Adam Gibson and Chris Nicholson, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is privately funded, and raised $3 million in seed financing in 2016.
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Ruth Kedar Ruth Kedar (Hebrew: רות קדר‎ ‎ ; born 27 January 1955) is an artist and designer, best known for designing the Google logo that was displayed from May 31, 1999 to September 1, 2015. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style and she was hired to design both. The design was accepted due to its playful design, the customized Catull typeface and unique visual expression.
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Ramakrishnan Srikant Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Google Fellow at Google.
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Google Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google; he replaced Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.
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Lea Verou Lea Verou (Greek: Λία Βέρου ; born June 13, 1986) is a front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Greece. Verou is currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.
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Rollo Carpenter Rollo Carpenter (born 1965) is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky and Cleverbot, learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) software. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley. His brother is the artist Merlin Carpenter.
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Jun'ichi Tsujii Jun'ichi Tsujii (辻井 潤一 , Tsujii Jun'ichi , born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology and bioinformatics.
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OpenAI OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company that aims to promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit humanity as a whole. The organization aims to "freely collaborate" with other institutions and researchers by making its patents and research open to the public. The founders (notably Elon Musk and Sam Altman) are motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence.
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Hector Levesque Hector Levesque is a Canadian academic and researcher in artificial intelligence.
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Xaitment xaitment is a German-based company that develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software to video game developers and simulation developers. The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber, and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI. xaitment has its main office in Quierschied, Germany, and field offices in San Francisco and China.
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Mei Hong Mei Hong (, born May 1963) from the Peking University, Beijing, China was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for "contributions to software architecture and component-based software engineering".
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Mathai Joseph Mathai Joseph is a leading Indian computer scientist.
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Martín Abadi Martín Abadi (born 1963) is an Argentinian computer scientist, currently working at Google. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna.
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Michael O. Rabin Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין‎ ‎ , born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.
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Kriti Sharma Kriti Sharma, (born April 1988) is an artificial intelligence technologist, mobile product inventor and one of the first chatbot executives in the technology industry. In 2017, Sharma was named in "Forbes" magazine's 30 Under 30. She is a speaker on financial technology, big data, product management and millennial entrepreneurship. She is currently the Vice President of Bots and AI at Sage Group, one of the UK’s largest tech companies. She is the inventor of “invisible accounting” with Pegg, first of its kind chatbot for business finances. She has been leading efforts to create more diverse and ethical artificial intelligence and “embracing botness” which means that AI does not have to pretend to be human, instead it needs to be useful.
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Mobvoi Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Vasant Honavar Vasant G. Honavar is an Indian born American computer scientist, and artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics and health informatics researcher and educator.
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Junio Hamano Junio C Hamano (濱野 純 , Hamano Jun ) is a Japanese software engineer and hacker living in California and working for Google. Best known for being the maintainer of Git since 26 July 2005, two months after its first release. Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it.
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Héctor García-Molina Héctor García-Molina (born 1954) is a Mexican/American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was advisor to Sergey Brin, the founder of Google, from 1993 to 1997 when he was a computer science student at Stanford.