In this episode, MeiXing Dong talks with Leon Kuperman, CTO of CUJO, about cybersecurity threats and how to guard against them. They discuss how CUJO, a smart hardware firewall, helps protect the home against online threats.

Leon Kuperman

Leon Kuperman is the CTO of CUJO IoT Security. Leon has a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, and is applying this expert knowledge of machine learning to his work at CUJO smart firewall. He is also an authority on Web Application Security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), e-commerce, cloud computing and web application architecture. Before CUJO, he co-founded ZENEDGE, a Web Application Security Platform for Enterprise. He also assisted with the launch of Modnique.com and held the position of CTO at Bidz.com. Prior to Zenedge, Leon founded and led Truition Inc., and early on demand ecommerce platform, winning major clients including Dell Financial Services, MLB, Comet, Philips, NHL, United Airlines and Disney. In his early career, he was the founding co-developer of IBM Net.Commerce currently named IBM Websphere Commerce Suite.

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In this episode, MeiXing Dong interviews Matthias Vanoni, co-founder and CEO of Biowatch. Vanoni speaks about Biowatch, a wrist-veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payments and smart devices. They discuss the technical challenges of building a miniaturized wrist-vein reader and how this device changes the usual user authentication process.

Matthias Vanoni

Prior to being the CEO and co-founder of Biowatch SA, Matthias Vanoni (31) was a PhD student at EPFL and IDIAP Research Institute, specialised in biometric authentication and a former captain in French Gendarmerie. His Life is now dedicated to entrepreneurship, his wife and their little boy.

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In this episode, MeiXing Dong conducts interviews at the 2017 Midwest Speech and Language Days workshop in Chicago. She talks with Michael White of Ohio State University about question interpretation in a dialogue system; Dmitriy Dligach of Loyola University Chicago about extracting patient timelines from doctor’s notes; and Denis Newman-Griffiths of Ohio State University about connecting words and phrases to relevant medical topics.

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The 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) took place in October, in Daejeon, Korea. IROS is an annual robotics conference that seeks to “explore the frontier of science and technology in intelligent robots and smart machines, and to stimulate innovative ideas, exchange technological perspectives and assess future directions in the field of intelligent robots and smart machines with a view to promote progress and prosperity for all nations.”

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