Shlomo Argamon Quotes

“I grew up as a science and math nerd.”

“We want to produce well rounded data scientists.”

“I hope they will learn how important these skills can be.”

“They may still not understand it involves learning to talk with people who are not technical.”

“Wikipedia: Shlomo Argamon”

“I discovered a love of computing in high school, when personal computing was still fairly new the early 80s.”

“We are talking to people in industry who want to do adjunct teaching for some courses that are down to earth.”

“To our great surprise and excitement, our results showed unequivocally that Marlowe had written the entire play.”

“I switched research directions towards natural language processing, using computers to understand human language.”

“I fell in love with the field of artificial intelligence as an undergraduate in applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon.”

“The idea that computers could be programmed to lead to intelligence, as in the robots in the science fiction I enjoyed.”

“I saw the growing interest in data science as a distinct field, and proposed to the Illinois Tech university leadership.”

“I discovered a love of integrating the precise and mathematical in computing with the personal and meaningful in language.”

“Early in my work on using computers to analyze authorship figuring out who wrote a document based on the wording and grammar.”

“I recruited collaborators, led the development of a curriculum, and shepherded the proposal through a gauntlet of curriculum committees.”

“Students coming in for a data scientist course are not looking for a real narrow technical focus but a broader in interdisciplinary approach.”

“I aimed at a research career and did my doctorate researching machine learning for mobile robots under the late brilliant Drew McDermott at Yale.”

“The breadth of the field, combining math, computing, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and more, is what has kept me in it for decades.”

“I discovered a love for designing and implementing processes the help people learn and perform, and for building effective teams to address complex problems.”

“My colleagues and I looked at the classic case of Shakespeare we looked at a play for which scholars disputed whether Shakespeare or his contemporary Christopher Marlowe wrote or if they each wrote different parts of it.”