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Aug 2022
9m 18s

In Machines We Trust: I Was There When.....

Mit Technology Review
About this episode
I Was There When is an oral history project that’s part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs and watershed moments in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them. In this episode we meet Dave Johnson, the chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Moderna. CREDITS: T ... Show More
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