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The Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series has been made possible through the generosity of the family of Bruce J. Nelson \u201974. Nelson was a brilliant technologist and leader, who developed the Remote Procedure Call and who, at the time of his death, was the chief science officer at Cisco Systems. The speaker series addresses global technical issues and their social, economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the explosion of AI, teachers and parents around the world worried that it would completely undermine education as we know it. But Sal Khan says that doesn\u2019t have to be the case. \u201cWe\u2019re at the cusp of using AI for the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen,\u201d he says. Khan uses his extensive experience and thorough research to break down how to use AI in education, from giving every student an amazing personal tutor and every teacher an intelligent teaching assistant, to exploring different methods of learning for students around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sal Khan is founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization that offers free lessons in math, science and humanities, as well as tools for parents, teachers and districts to track student progress. Khan Academy is piloting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in Mountain View, California, a cofounder of Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free tutoring over Zoom, and cofounder of Khan World School, a new nonprofit online high school. Khan holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. He has been profiled by 60 Minutes and was recognized as one of TIME\u2019s 100 Most Influential People in the World. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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