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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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When David Nahamoo was a high school student in Iran, he wanted to pursue a career in mathematics or physics. But after talking over career options with his friends, he says, he was "pointed in the direction of a good career in Iran" and instead decided to become an electrical engineer. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti first noticed the potential for the spread of disinformation on the Internet in 2010, when he began working as group R&D director for Vodafone in London. He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982.