I Was There When: AI helped create a vaccine

I'm Jennifer Strong, and this is I Was There When--an oral history project featuring the stories of breakthroughs and watershed moments in AI and computing… as told by those who witnessed them. This episode, we meet Dave Johnson, the chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Moderna. Dave Johnson: Moderna is a biotech company that was founded on the promise of mRNA technology. My name is Dave Johnson. I'm chief data and AI officer at Moderna. mRNA is essentially an information molecule.