Jerry Kaplan
Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science, Stanford University
Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science, Stanford University
Jerry Kaplan is widely known as a serial entrepreneur, artificial Intelligence expert, technical innovator, bestselling author, and futurist. He co-founded four Silicon Valley startups, two of which became publicly traded companies. His nonfiction novel Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure was named one of the top ten business books by Business Week. His latest book, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, was selected by The Economist as one of the top ten science and technology books of 2015. Kaplan is a frequent public speaker. Kaplan holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He also teaches in the Computer Science Department, Stanford University.