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"I was certainly an anomaly as a woman studying computer science back then. There were almost no women in my courses, and I never had a female professor — both as an undergraduate and graduate student. As an undergraduate, it was hard to connect with my fellow CS students."
"One of my early projects involved building a task planner for Flakey, the successor robot to Shakey. A fun highlight related to that effort was when Alan Alda, the actor and host of the show Scientific American Frontiers"
"One area that excites me is neuro-symbolic AI, which combines data-driven machine learning with traditional AI methods that encode pre-defined knowledge as symbolic rules."
"This hybrid design enables human expertise to help guide and influence machine learning. This technology has been used for drug design, where insights provided by a medicinal chemist on desired properties for a new molecule can complement properties extracted from collected data on different molecules."
"A major focus at SRI has been creating AI technologies designed to complement human problem solving."
"I’m hoping some of the excitement about what we’re doing with AI today will attract many more young women to the field."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.