I'm going to go and Howdy folks, Rob Wolf here. We are back with another edition of the

Palio Solution Podcast. Today I am very excited to introduce folks and I suspect many of you may already know

Dr Kenneth Ford. Ken is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Human and

Machine Cognition. He's the editor a co-author of hundreds of scientific

papers and six books. Ken has a really interesting background, a pretty high-level

athletics at one point. believe Doc you spent some time in the military

and then transition from kind of a philosophy background into artificial intelligence, is that right?

That is indeed right.

Thank you, Rob.

Yeah, yeah.

Tell folks a little bit more about your background.

Well, the after college I was smitten with the music business and I worked in the music

business mostly as a promoter and a manager of the second English

invasion, rock and roll bands.

And after a period of time there noticed that I was developing some unfortunate

personal habits and decided that...

I don't only imagine.

Decided that I should probably join the Navy, which came as a shock, I'm sure, to both the Navy and to my friends.

And this wasn't at court order. This wasn't still at a time where it was like you can go to prison or go into the military. It wasn't one of those things was it?

No, this was right after, uh, it was just as Vietnam was wrapping up, you know, and so I spent six years in the Navy and the Navy introduced me to computers very much against my will.

At the time computers weren't in common usage.

You know, people didn't have computers at home.

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