'When you are in your PhD stage, there is a high wall between different disciplines and subjects, and there was even a high wall within computer science,' He says. 'The guy sitting next to me could be doing things that I completely couldn't understand.' In the seven months since he joined the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing as the Douglas Ross (1954) Career Development Professor of Software Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, He says he is experiencing something that in his opinion is 'very rare in human scientific history' ' a lowering of the walls that expands across different scientific disciplines. 'There is no way I could ever understand high-energy physics, chemistry, or the frontier of biology research, but now we are seeing something that can help us to break these walls,' He says, 'and that is the creation of a common language that has been found in AI.' According to He, this shift began in 2012 in the wake of the 'deep learning...
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