In the winter semester of 2020 Jason Mars taught a course at University of Michigan that serves an example of how he performs as an instructor. This course is an EECS 498 class entitled The Principles and Practice of Conversational AI. Though Jason often teaches...
Jason Mars will be speaking at the FlyOver Tech Fest, a free online fest featuring talks from 20 technology leaders on topics ranging from fundraising to hiring to scaling. The fest is going live on October 1st and includes talks from Jason Mars and other...
The search chair of my CSE department at U. Michigan recently asked me what brought me to Michigan. So I shared my story… Hi Ben! I'd be happy to share my thoughts and experiences coming to Michigan from my prior institution. I remain delighted with...
Problem Gitlab has by far established itself as the de-facto standard if you want to privately, in your own cloud/cluster, host a code repo and have the nice interface and other trimmings typically provided by a Github. However, unlike other services out there, there’s very...
Goal / Problem The key goal that led to this solution is to have a single general implementation of a programming interface (we’ll refer to this core interface as the core) that can be the basis underlying various access points of that core interface. An...
Problem Swagger / OpenAPI can be regarded as the de-facto standard for API documentation and sandbox for experimenting with and learning a new API. Adding this to a REST API Django project is important. The process for this integration can have some hiccups based on...
Problem Jenkins is a “the [self-proclaimed] leading open source automation server” for continuous integration and software deployment. Given it’s popularity, it’s a good potential standard staple to have included in a major coding project. But how can we quickly plop (yes that’s the technical word)...
Problem It’s annoying when you commit code changes to a Django project and a bunch of migration, cache files, and other junk get’s unwittingly checked in mucking up the git repo. This is often the case when using the `git add –all’ command. Assumptions The...
Humbled to be named #4 after top leaders in AI at Google, Apple, and Amazon took the first 3 spots. These 11 technologists are having an outsized influence on today’s voice assistant landscape and the benefits consumers and enterprises receive from the services. They range...
Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars are the wife-and-husband team that made big headlines in May when their Ann Arbor-based artificial intelligence company, whose technology allows companies to more easily interact with customers, closed on a venture-capital funding round of $52 million… Tang and Mars have...
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