I was born/grew up in: I was born in Nova Scotia, but grew up in Parry Sound, Ontario. I now live in: I now live in Barrie, Ontario, and work remotely for a company headquartered in Toronto. I work now at a company called Cyclica. We are a biotechnology company that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make medicines that are more effective for patients. I do research and develop methods for computational drug design.

Have you ever visited a favorite e-commerce website, and noticed the website was recommending some products you had looked at before? Have you taken a picture of your friend with your smartphone, and the phone asked you to confirm whether or not it was, in fact that friend by name, based on pictures you had tagged before? Have you heard about Google's self-driving car, Skype's emerging translation capabilities or IBM Watson, which is helping doctors to diagnose and treat patients more effectively? There are many names for the magic behind this wizardry, including artificial intelligence, machine learning or cognitive technology. Regardless of what you call it, robots, software and computing devices are evolving to become more autonomous than ever before.

General Electric's Research and Elscint (Hackensack, NJ), a manufacturer Johnson Controls (Milwaukee, WI) Development Center (Schenectady, of medical imaging systems, has has begun deployment of a knowledge-based NY) has developed an expert system begun offering its customers a service engineering application which is being used to increase the option based on expert systems. The to increase the productivity of the speed of design of new jet engines, MasterMind system delivers troubleshooting engineering design function. The system, called Engineous, on laptop or desktop computers. The General (Menlo Park, CA), is conveyor for further processing. It problems and recommends solutions objects have become rotated.