Nancy T. Smith, Ph.D., mobile app developer and A.I. researcher

The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. -Steven Pinker
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. -Ray Kurzweil, 2010
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -Randall E. Stross
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -Bill Gates
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -Martin Golding
In Mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -John von Neumann

Mobile Apps

Bringing together decades of embedded real-time programming experience and recent serious academic artificial intelligence research into building mobile apps. iOS and Android provide an opportunity for those of us who love to program unlike anything in the past.

HotelPlanner.com

My most excellent employer. A tremendously successful website specializing in group bookings. I have the honor of being their Mobile developer. Download one of our apps!

My Inspiration

The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Some messages are so powerful they change your life. This book will change your view of the future, and make you excited about A.I. and the coming years.

My Apps

Rhythm ID was launched January 1st, 2013. It is a method for drummers and dancers to learn to recognize and remember middle eastern rhythms. Puppy Dogs was launched January 25th, 2013, and is an interactive children's bedtime story. It was written and illustrated by my very talented sister, who is a psychologist and mother.