Francesca Bay

Bay Area folk singer Lydia Joy Davis discusses her music, self censorship as a mother and artist, and her soon to be released album by Kimberly Wainscoat Lydia Joy Davis                                                                           Photo: Aaron Wainscoat A Bay Area "busker" since the age of six,  Lydia Joy Davis  was reared by an Irish guitarist father and operatic mother. She is a  folk singer  chronicling the stories and troubles of modern day Bay Area life while raising a young family of her own. In her song "Perfect World", she delves into what many here seem to strive for, with our "perfect house, picket fence, perfect life" troubles. But she also crosses over and sings about the adventures of millennial polyamorous relationships and hoo...

Francesca Bay Interpreter of Suburban Maladies Posted: 19 Jan 2018 11:48 AM PST Bay Area folk singer Lydia Joy Davis discusses her music, self censorship as a mother and artist, and her soon to be released album by Kimberly Wainscoat Lydia Joy Davis                                                                           Photo: Aaron Wainscoat A Bay Area "busker" since the age of six,  Lydia Joy Davis  was reared by an Irish guitarist father and operatic mother. She is a  folk singer  chronicling the stories and troubles of modern day Bay Area life while raising a young family of her own. In her song "Perfect World", she delves into what many here seem to strive for, with our "perfect house, picket fence, perfect life" troubles. But s...

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On the pastoral campus of the University of California Santa Cruz, Professor Marilyn Walker is a force behind the burgeoning major of Artificial Intelligence. In fact her face, thirty feet tall, graces the wall of the International boarding terminal at San Jose International Airport as she screen writes formulas. It also dots areas around the campus itself. Clearly, there’s a new Marilyn in town. By Kimberly Wainscoat Professor Marilyn Walker We spoke at her picturesque home on the campus, where she is a tenured, Ivy and Stanford educated professor. As an early pioneer in Palo Alto technology companies such as Hewlett Packard and AT&T Bell Labs, Marilyn is also a sought after consultant in the booming area of Artificial Intelligence. Her body of work includes statistical methods for dialog optimization and expressive generation for dialog. To the layperson, think Alexa, Siri or Ok Google. Simply put, she is helping to lead the way for informative human-computer conversat...