Tumbleweeds roll briskly across the old K-Mart parking lot on 34th Street South. At night, a lonely wind whistles through cracks in the abandoned, whitewashed storefront, calling attention, shoppers like a solitary owl to no one in particular.
Recently, we saw a prime example of this when Google-owned DeepMind’s AlphaGo program beat the reigning world Go champion, Lee Sodol, 4-1 in what many consider to be the most difficult game in the world. What is most compelling is that the computer actually trained itself to play the game – it was not trained by humans.
It’s been 32 years since Bob Shoemaker burned his last necktie, stuck his law degree in a bottom drawer and bet the farm on a St. Pete Beach nightclub.
There’s not much difference between Maghan Morin and Jeanine Suah’s professional and personal lives. They live for their work, and they believe in what they do.
