When the idea finds the entrepreneur — After founding multiple startups, including Yodle, which sold after growing into a $200M+ revenue line business, I had settled into advising student entrepreneurs at Wharton. My professorship began in 2003 but a couple of years ago, I took a leave to pursue my itch to start a company again. After…

Why are computer scientists obsessed with building AI that can play games (like Chess and Go)? — “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” — Isaac Asimov Historian and technologist David Nye has argued that “the meaning of a tool is inseparable from the stories that surround it.” …

I am delighted to finally announce Jumpcut, the first data-driven studio that puts data to work to solve Hollywood’s sequel culture and lack of inclusiveness. The company combines my twenty years of training in data science and entrepreneurship with my personal enthusiasm for film. …

AI startups have a chicken & egg problem. Here’s how to solve it. — A few years ago, I learned about the billions of dollars banks lose to credit card fraud on an annual basis. Better detection or prediction of fraud would be incredibly valuable. And so I considered the possibility of convincing a bank to share their transactional data in the hope of…

In this brave new world, many of our choices aren’t choices at all — Tai, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, wakes up at the perfect time every morning—well-rested, but not late for classes or appointments. Today that meant rising at 7:18 a.m. He did not set his alarm for that time. Rather, it was chosen for him. His phone’s sleep-tracker app had…