Synopsis:
In this two-part lecture, Laurence Liew will cover a brief history of AI past, the current AI landscape and AI in the next 25 years. He will then share a few snapshots of interesting real-world AI war stories that are more often about people than the AI technology itself.

Speaker Biography:
Laurence Liew is the Director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore. He drives the adoption of AI by Singapore’s ecosystem through the 100 Experiments, AI Apprenticeship programmes and various AI Makerspace initiatives. A visionary and serial technopreneur, he identified and introduced Singapore's enterprises to Linux and open source (1999), High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster (2001), Grid Computing (2003), Cloud Computing (2007) and Data Science with R (2011) amongst others. Liew graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering and holds a Masters in Knowledge Engineering from NUS.

Moderator Biography:
Dr Andrew Koh is a Senior Lecturer at Singapore Management University, where he teaches "AI and Humanity" and "Digital Technologies and Sustainability". His research focuses on the well-being of migrant workers in Singapore, born out of a heartbeat to serve the marginalized. Previous positions held include a Partner Seller at Microsoft and Assistant Director at Ministry of Manpower (ACE). His work experience through the non-profit, corporate and governmental sectors lent him an integrative perspective with which he aims to empower the next generation. He obtained his Ph.D. in computational imaging in 2008.