TOP 100 WOMEN
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Barb Morgan
Chief Development Officer
FIS
Based in Florida , FIS is leading the way in payment , banking and investment , with Morgan as the Chief Development Officer . The Fortune 100 senior technology executive had previously worked in Capital One and Boeing , before accepting the position at FIS . A distinguished leader , Morgan commands a team of 10,000 people , serving to simplify problems in an international group of clients , in the planet ’ s biggest FinTech company . Besides this , Morgan has volunteered as a Financial Literacy Coach in Chicago and Oklahoma .
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Fei-Fei Li
Professor , Co-Director of Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute
Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li is responsible for realising that while algorithms were the engine of machine learning , creating colossal datasets with which to train them was the fuel they ran on . She distilled the ImageNet project , a labelled image dataset that supercharged the arrival of visual ML and ushered in the age of deep learning . ImageNet ’ s dataset has been accused of having embedded bias , and has made changes to its training data to correct it . But Li is no crazy cyborg . She has said ; “ We want the creators of this technology to represent our values and represent our shared humanity .”
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Daniela Rus
Director
CSAIL ( MIT )
MIT ’ s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab ( CSAIL ) is more than just the only academic research department whose website doesn ’ t look like it was built in 1998 . It ’ s a global leader in making AI work … for people . Rus ’ s own research is all about getting robots to talk to each other and reconfigure themselves without human intervention . In her own words , AI “ is nothing more than a tool . I believe that we can do extraordinarily positive things with AI ,” she says , “ but it is not a given that that will happen .”
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