New York Tech's Future with Emergent Technologies – Part II

Join us for Part II of New York Tech’s Future with Emergent Technologies series, as guest speaker John Cohn, Ph.D., Chief Scientist of the MIT-IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence Lab, illustrates how other institutions teach, research, and learn with emergent technologies. Follow the exciting journey of artificial intelligence, a booming area of emergent technology, from its humble beginnings as face recognition to the future’s self-learning and reasoning AI. Watch an AI participate in the most human of engagements—debate; and learn how we’ve gotten this far.

Dr. Cohn’s presentation will be followed by a discussion panel about New York Tech’s future engagement with emergent technologies led by one of New York Tech’s resident AI experts, Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D. Come join the conversation!

AGENDA

• 12:30 – 12:40 p.m.: Welcome and Introductions
• 12:40 – 1:20  p.m.: Keynote speaker: John Cohn, Ph.D.
• 1:20 – 2 p.m.:  New York Tech  faculty panel led by Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

John Cohn, Ph.D., is an IBM Fellow in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Research Group based in Cambridge, MA. Cohn. earned a BSEE from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, which named him a Distinguished Alumni in 2014. He has authored more than 30 technical papers, contributed to 4 books, and has approximately 120 worldwide patents. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005.

Cohn is active in education issues at local, state, and national levels. In 2019, he was awarded the IEEE CAS John Choma Education award for his efforts at STEM promotion. He is so passionate about promoting STEM careers that he spent 59 days living and inventing in an abandoned steel mill as part of Discovery Channel's technical survival show, The Colony. Cohn lives with his family in a restored 19th-century schoolhouse in Jonesville, Vermont, and is eager to share his love of science and technology with anyone who will listen.