About AIED

AIED looks at artificial intelligence and its impact on education – as used by teachers, by students, and as a discipline alongside computer science. But rather than reviewing tools or specific ways in which AI can be used, it focuses on AI as a technology. While AI tools are developing and evolving rapidly, their underlying technology – neural networks- is decades old. As we enter an age where we can create neural networks at a scale that are “interesting”, the basics of neural networks still hold. By understanding the underlying technology, we better understand how, where, and when AI tools can be best utilized.

About Mike (aka The M)

Mike’s history in artificial intelligence spans more than 40 years. As a high school student in the mid-80s, he started investigating natural language processing. His science fair project, Conceptual Language Translation, took honors at the state and international levels and expanded his interests in computing to include philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. His interest in AI continued through university and influenced his career as a Silicon Valley engineer, executive, and entrepreneur, where it expressed itself as a care for how machines and technology are expressed in products and services. Having delved into AI in both its “classical” algorithm-based incarnations and its early neural network phase – the genesis of the current large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini – Mike has an appreciation for this unique form of computing – as well as the unique challenges accompanying it.

Mike has a Bachelor of Arts & Science in Psychology and Computer Science from Stanford University. He has held various engineering and management roles in Silicon Valley, was a founder and chief scientist of the consumer electronics company TGC, and is a founder of and is presently an advisor to the streaming service LiTV (Taiwan). He is the owner of Koherence, LLC, through which he continues to be a general nuisance to provide consulting services to the consumer electronics industry.