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Dec 2023
26m 44s

AI on Mars: NASA’s Vandi Verma

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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When Vandi Verma saw the Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars while she was working toward a Ph.D. in robotics, it set her on a path toward working at NASA in space exploration., Perhaps unsurprisingly, today, as chief engineer for robotic operations at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Vandi sees the biggest opportunities for artificial intellig ... Show More
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