AI versus Internet - Part One

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. At MIT, he is a Fellow of the Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT Connection Science, and Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan. He is also a member of the Linux Foundation Research Advisory Board. Irving retired from IBM in May of 2007 after a 37-year career with the company, where his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He led several of IBM’s companywide initiatives, including the Internet, Supercomputing, and Linux. Irving has been an Adviser on Digital Strategy and Innovation at Citigroup, HBO, and MasterCard; Adjunct Professor at the Imperial College Business School and at New York University’s Center for Urban Science & Progress (CUSP); a member of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a guest columnist at the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal. Since 2005, Irving has been writing a weekly blog, irvingwb.com. Irving was co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories, the Board of Overseers for Fermilab, and BP's Technology Advisory Council. Irving is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.