Google’s Calico Appoints Daphne Koller as Chief Computing Officer

Google’s billion dollar life extension division, Calico, today announced Daphne Koller will be building a Computational Biology and Machine Learning Team in her role as Chief Computing Officer.

She will build a team focused on developing powerful computational and machine learning tools for analyzing biological and medical data sets. She and her team will work closely with the biological scientists at Calico to design experiments and construct data sets that could provide a deeper understanding into the science of longevity and support the development of new interventions to extend healthy lifespan.

Dr. Koller is one of the best minds in the field of AI and her appointment to Calico signals the importance of AI in the search for solutions to answers of healthy living.

Source: https://www.calicolabs.com/news/2016/08/17/

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