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Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo , a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation. It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo Employer University of Virginia in Charlottesville Title Assistant professor of computer science Member grade Member Alma maters National Taiwan University; MIT In high school she learned the capacity computers held. She could write programs that completed tasks independently, she realized. “Once I discovered how powerful computers could be,” she says, “I knew I wanted to focus on using them to solve real-world problems.” Kuo, an IEEE member, never lost her interest in the “how”
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses, Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo , a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation. It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo Employer University of Virginia in Charlottesville Title Assistant professor of computer science Member grade Member Alma maters National Taiwan University; MIT In high school she learned the capacity computers held. She could write programs that completed tasks independently, she realized. “Once I discovered how powerful computers could be,” she says, “I knew I wanted to focus on using them to solve real-world problems.” Kuo, an IEEE member, never lost her interest in the “how”
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