OSHER ONLINE: AI for Regular People

Instructor: Melba Kurman & Dr. Hod Lipman Dates & Time: Thursdays, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30/ 5/7; 4-5:30 pm Price: $100 Class Type: Osher Online (will not be recorded) Must be a member to register. Sign-in or Join here, or click the link on the header above. This course is co-taught by Hod Lipson, PhD, Professor of Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University, and author and technology analyst Melba Kurman. Dr. Lipson directs Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab, where his team builds artificially intelligent robots that can design, create, and express emotion. One of the world’s most-cited academic roboticists, his work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, TED, and Quanta. Melba Kurman has held roles at Microsoft, Cornell University, and several tech startups. She writes about emerging technologies and their societal impact. Together, they co-authored Driverless and Fabricated: The Promise and Peril of 3D Printing, and are frequent speakers on AI and innovation. They divide their time between New York City and the Berkshires.