prunedevir
Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly
on Thursday March 24, 2011 @03:54PM (#2365616)
I found the about page a bit strange. Why doesn't she list where she was a professor? (Googling turns up Johnson and Wales University.) Saying that her "background" is in machine learning makes it kinda seem like that's not her particular academic field; no problem with that -- I don't think you need a PhD in machine learning in order to do good machine learning or data science work -- but it just sounds like something's missing. Googling a bit more turns up some research on developing a "virtual Morocco"/virtual classrooms for Second Life, so I think her academic field was about digitizing education?