{"id":648264,"date":"2020-04-07T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&#038;p=648264"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:13:21","slug":"reprogramming-the-american-dream-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/reprogramming-the-american-dream-a-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprogramming the American Dream: A conversation with Kevin Scott and J.D. Vance, moderated by Greg Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>From Rural America to Silicon Valley \u2013 Making AI Serve Us All<\/h3>\n<p>In this timely book written from the perspective of a technologist whose life started in rural America and wound its way to Silicon Valley, Kevin Scott, Microsoft\u2019s Chief Technology Officer, tackles one of the most critical issues facing society today: the future of artificial intelligence and how it can realistically be used to serve the interests of everyone, not just the privileged few.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/kevin-scott-reprogramming-the-american-dream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the blog ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reprogrammingthedream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official book site ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<p>Kevin Scott is executive vice president and chief technology officer of Microsoft and has held executive and engineering positions at LinkedIn and Google. He built and led the technology team of pioneering mobile advertising startup AdMob, which was acquired by Google in 2010. He has received a Google Founder\u2019s Award, an Intel PhD Fellowship, and an ACM Recognition of Service Award. He is an adviser to several Silicon Valley start-ups, an active angel investor, the founder of the nonprofit organization Behind the Tech, the host of the Behind the Tech podcast, and an emeritus trustee of the Anita Borg Institute. Scott holds an MS in computer science from Wake Forest University and a BS in computer science from Lynchburg College, and has completed most of his PhD in computer science at the University of Virginia. A native of rural Virginia, he lives in Los Gatos, California, with his wife and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rural America to Silicon Valley \u2013 Making AI Serve Us All In this timely book written from the perspective of a technologist whose life started in rural America and wound its way to Silicon Valley, Kevin Scott, Microsoft\u2019s Chief Technology Officer, tackles one of the most critical issues facing society today: the future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-session-type":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"msr-episode":[],"msr-research-theme":[],"class_list":["post-648264","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/08ilu8xFUps","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/648264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/648264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648408,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/648264\/revisions\/648408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-session-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-session-type?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-episode","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-episode?post=648264"},{"taxonomy":"msr-research-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-theme?post=648264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}