Jonathan Rochelle (Google) on Machine Learning Insights for Human Learning | TNW Conference 2017

Machine Learning Insights for Human Learning The improvements in machine learning in the past two decades have skyrocketed and changed our expectations of what can be accomplished in the world. We've begun to successfully teach machines to learn - to solve dynamic problems in transportation, communication, commerce, medicine and more. But while we've advanced these machine learning methods exponentially, we have hardly changed the way us humans teach and learn. Education methods have changed at a snails pace, or hardly at all, for many decades. Lessons learned from machine learning can advance human learning so that we - and our children - can actually make use of the power of intelligent computing to improve our lives. If you want to dip your toes in the water of Machine Learning and think deeply about the importance of human education and the ways we can improve it, please join me. Jonathan Rochelle CO-FOUNDER GOOGLE DRIVE Jonathan Rochelle (aka JR) is Director of Product Management at Google and a co-founder of Google Docs and Google Drive, including other apps in that suite such as Google Sheets, Slides, Forms, Apps Script and Google Fonts. Jonathan is now primarily responsible for Jamboard - a collaborative whiteboard product launched in October, 2016, which includes hardware and apps - and Google Apps for Education - which reaches more than 60 million educators and students. In this role he is responsible for the recent launches of Google Classroom and Google Expeditions. Jonathan and his teams are primarily based in Google's NYC office. Prior to joining Google in 2005, Jonathan co-founded and sold two technology start-ups - ITK Solutions, a technology consulting firm, and 2Web Technologies, a software product company which was acquired by Google in 2005 as the technology behind Google spreadsheets - the first publicly launched component of Google Docs. Before founding the start-ups, Jonathan spent 16 years as a software engineer and applications development manager, primarily at JP Morgan & Co., across a broad set of financial service businesses. He's a strong advocate of innovation culture, entrepreneurship and education technology and is very active in his current creative passion - 3D Printing (www.MkrClub.com). Jonathan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Albany. His twitter handle is @jrochelle