Director

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL )

Daniela L Rus is a Romanian- American roboticist , the Director of theMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , and Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She was also included in Forbes list of incredible women advancing AI research .”

Rus ' research is focused on developing the science of networked / distributed / collaborative robotics . The main question that inspires her research is “ How can many machines collaborate to achieve a common goal ?”

Founder and CEO

DeepMind

Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher , neuroscientist , video game designer and entrepreneur . As well as CEO and co-founder of DeepMind , Hassabis is also a government advisor . After graduating from University College London , with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience in 2009 , he continued his research into neuroscience and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University .

Hassabis and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman created the machine learning AI startup with the mission to " solve intelligence " and then use intelligence " to solve everything else ". aimagazine . com 95