Mehran Sahami
James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor, School of Engineering; Tencent Chair, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Mehran Sahami is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering and Tencent chair of the computer science department at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Prior to this, Sahami was a senior research scientist at Google. Previously, he co-founded the ACM Learning at Scale Conference and the AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Sahami researches computer science education, machine learning, and ethics; has published numerous research papers; and holds over 20 patents on web search, recommendation engines in social networks, and email spam filtering. He is a co-author with Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein of the book, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
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In their new book, co-authors and Stanford professors Rob Reich and Mehran Sahami argue that big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental h...
At a moment when decades of academic achievement have been lost, can we amplify the benefits of A.I. equally across society, or will we allow a deeper digital divide to leave...