Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher born in Jerusalem on August 27, 1968.
Koller holds citizenship in both Israel and the United States. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later at Stanford University, where she also served as a professor in the department of computer science. Her research applies artificial intelligence to the biomedical sciences. In 2004, MIT Technology Review featured her in an article titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World."
Koller is one of the founders of Coursera. The recognition she has received covers a wide range of contributions: she holds a MacArthur Fellowship, the ACM Prize in Computing, the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, the Computer Pioneer Award, and the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. She is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
As a computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher, Koller has worked at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the biomedical sciences, and that focus on applying AI to biomedical questions runs through her career as a researcher.
Quotes by Daphne Koller
Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don’t be deterred by obstacles.
High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity – even among the college-educated.
We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.
Juggling a career and a family is a challenge for anyone, and even more so (in general) for women. Probably the most important advice to any woman interested in a career is to pick your life partner with care. Having a supportive partner is key to trying to manage the constraints of these two demanding roles.
Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.
![In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.](https://lakl0ama8n6qbptj.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/quotes/quote-1808519.png)
In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.
High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.