• Question: Who inspired you to do your job? How old were you when you started?

    Asked by secretsaudience22 on 31 Dec 2019. This question was also asked by John, secretsaudience13, bag9, tree18, ep05, finlay1schofield, maya, izzy, theandroidmoder, amyw, taryn, holly jean, aid17, pumbaa, Robyn Capes-Baldrey, hmartin97.
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      Diana Kornbrot answered on 31 Dec 2019:

      No person inspired me.
      I was inspired by the questions I wanted to answer froim about 5 years old
      Starting with how numbers work, then how physical things work.
      Wanted to know origin of the physical universe.
      THEN inspired by people, e.g. Einstein, Newton, Curie
      Now interested in origin of life. Maths of DNA has revealed much if FUNDAMENTAL interst

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      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 3 Jan 2020:

      I got inspired to do robotics when I was a visiting Erasmus student at the Free University in Bruxelles during my bachelor studies. Then I took a course on Artificial Intelligence and I visited the robotics lab, where I had the intuition of what would be nice to do once I would have graduated.

      I started my PhD in robotics in 2012, I was 27

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      Maja Popovic answered on 6 Jan 2020:

      Nobody inspired me directly, but growing up with a translator (Mum) and electrical engineer (Grandpa) certainly had some influence to my affection for maths and languages.

      In a course of my career I found out that there was a way to work with both, namely machine translation (and computational linguistic in general, but translation is especially interesting to me).

      Therefore I started my PhD in machine translation when I was 30, and I’m still in it (in machine translation, PhD is finished long time ago 🙂

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      Katie Atkinson answered on 8 Jan 2020:

      Lecturers who taught me at university who were passionate about AI. I was in my early 20s.

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