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We are the IBM WATSON BUILD NORTH AMERICA CHAMPION for our AI app for people who are…
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Open letter to the U.S. supply chain and government - what about the drivers?
Open letter to the U.S. supply chain and government - what about the drivers?
By Karen Kilroy
Contributions
Activity
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Cartoon depicting an AI front end with real people doing the work in the background. Designed by NYX NoCode and saved and shared in File Baby.
Cartoon depicting an AI front end with real people doing the work in the background. Designed by NYX NoCode and saved and shared in File Baby.
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[Knowledge Series-2] AI model collapse (failure) due to training on poisoned or AI-generated data Stealth data poisoning poses a significant threat…
[Knowledge Series-2] AI model collapse (failure) due to training on poisoned or AI-generated data Stealth data poisoning poses a significant threat…
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Friends in India, if you see any pirated copies of O'Reilly books floating around, can you let me know? I am wondering if my own book, Blockchain…
Friends in India, if you see any pirated copies of O'Reilly books floating around, can you let me know? I am wondering if my own book, Blockchain…
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Experience
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Co-Chair, AI/ML Task Force
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
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I co-chair a sub-group of C2PA that dives into establishing methods of providing provenance to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Co-Chair, C2PA Trust List Task Force
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
- 4 months
Science and Technology
I co-chair a sub-group of C2PA that dives into establishing a trust list for hardware devices and software.
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Roundtable Moderator - AI/Blockchain Roundtable, Media and Entertainment SIG
Hyperledger Foundation
- 8 months
Moderating a roundtable that is focused on how blockchain and AI can be applied to the entertainment industry including film, television, music, and games.
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Coach
Dragon Dream Team
- 6 years 5 months
Health
Breast cancer survivor dragon boat team, I volunteered as coach and steersperson.
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volunteer dragon boat coach for TSBVI Wildcats
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- 3 years 2 months
Health
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) has the only school for the blind dragon boat team in the world! I volunteer to coach these young adults, age 21 and under, to help them learn dragon boating skills. We practice in the pool and then race each year in April at the Austin Dragon Boat Festival. Go Wildcats!
Publications
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Natural Language and Search
O'Reilly
When you look at operational analytics and business data analysis activities—such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, observability, and more—effective search functionality is key to identifying issues, improving customers experience, and increasing operational effectiveness. How can you support your business needs by leveraging ML-driven advancements in search relevance?
In this report, authors Karen Kilroy, Jon Handler, and Muthu Pitchaimani help…When you look at operational analytics and business data analysis activities—such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, observability, and more—effective search functionality is key to identifying issues, improving customers experience, and increasing operational effectiveness. How can you support your business needs by leveraging ML-driven advancements in search relevance?
In this report, authors Karen Kilroy, Jon Handler, and Muthu Pitchaimani help executives and data scientists explore how ML can enable ecommerce firms to generate more pertinent search results to drive better sales. You'll learn how personalized search helps you quickly find relevant data within applications, websites, and data lake catalogs. You'll also discover how to locate the content available in CRM systems and document stores.
This report helps you:
Address the challenges of traditional document search, including data preparation and ingestion
Leverage ML techniques to improve search outcomes and the relevance of documents you retrieve
Discover what makes a good search solution that's reliable, scalable, and can drive your business forward
Learn how to choose a search solution to improve your decision-making process
With advancements in ML-driven search, businesses can realize even more benefits and improvements in their data and document search capabilities to better support their own business needs and the needs of their customers.
About the authors:
Karen Kilroy, CEO of Kilroy Blockchain, is a lifelong technologist, full stack software engineer, speaker, and author living in Northwest Arkansas.
Jon Handler is a senior principal solutions architect at Amazon Web Services.
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Blockchain Tethered AI
O'Reilly
Remove your doubts about AI and explore how this technology can be future-proofed using blockchain's smart contracts and tamper-evident ledgers. With this practical book, system architects, software engineers, and systems solution specialists will learn how enterprise blockchain provides permanent provenance of AI, removes the mystery, and allows you to validate AI before it's ever used.
Authors Karen Kilroy, Lynn Riley, et al. explain that, while it sounds exciting, AI's ability to…Remove your doubts about AI and explore how this technology can be future-proofed using blockchain's smart contracts and tamper-evident ledgers. With this practical book, system architects, software engineers, and systems solution specialists will learn how enterprise blockchain provides permanent provenance of AI, removes the mystery, and allows you to validate AI before it's ever used.
Authors Karen Kilroy, Lynn Riley, et al. explain that, while it sounds exciting, AI's ability to change itself through program synthesis could take the technology beyond human control. With this book, you'll learn an efficient way to solve this problem by building simple blockchain controls for verifying, tracking, tracing, auditing, and even reversing AI.
- Learn how to create and power AI marketplaces with blockchain
- Understand why and how to implement on-chain AI governance
Control AI by learning methods to tether it to blockchain networks
- Use blockchain cryptoanchors to detect common AI hacks
- Learn methods for reversing tethered AI.Other authorsSee publication -
AI and the Law
O’Reilly Media
Where is artificial intelligence taking us? Concerns over "responsible" innovation have spawned debates since big data appeared, but apprehension has grown considerably with widespread adoption of AI. This report examines the legal liability related to AI systems, including where responsibility should lie for adverse effects, loss of privacy, and other challenges.
Author Karen Kilroy discusses why society needs to create laws and ethical governance frameworks for AI. Product directors…Where is artificial intelligence taking us? Concerns over "responsible" innovation have spawned debates since big data appeared, but apprehension has grown considerably with widespread adoption of AI. This report examines the legal liability related to AI systems, including where responsibility should lie for adverse effects, loss of privacy, and other challenges.
Author Karen Kilroy discusses why society needs to create laws and ethical governance frameworks for AI. Product directors, CIOs, CEOs, and risk officers will explore how AI is interpreted in law and policymaking, including issues such as privacy, negligence, liability, ethics, and entity management. This report also contains ideas for ensuring AI doesn't escape human control--and that people who control it act in a responsible manner.
You'll learn:
What AI is: learn its broad range of capabilities and applications, and AI's ability to influence users
The trust deficit: understand the uneasiness people have about the prospect of being replaced or devalued by AI's rapid and often stealth introduction to society
AI and the legal industry: explore how AI is used in law and explore the liability of autonomous AI
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Blockchain-as-a-Service Report
O'Reilly Media
While the merits of cryptocurrency continue to be debated, the underlying technology—the blockchain—can be applied in many other ways to solve problems that have plagued organizations for years. To spur adoption of blockchain for these newer use cases, many technology providers and leading businesses have begun offering cloud-based blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) options. This report brings you up to speed on these emerging opportunities.
Author Karen Kilroy helps technical business…While the merits of cryptocurrency continue to be debated, the underlying technology—the blockchain—can be applied in many other ways to solve problems that have plagued organizations for years. To spur adoption of blockchain for these newer use cases, many technology providers and leading businesses have begun offering cloud-based blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) options. This report brings you up to speed on these emerging opportunities.
Author Karen Kilroy helps technical business leaders, solutions architects, and innovation officers understand blockchain and evaluate options for BaaS. Through interviews with enterprise blockchain experts and practitioners, you’ll learn how this service model has evolved and what it offers. You’ll also examine the landscape of BaaS offerings, get a project started, and learn where the technology is going.
You’ll learn:
- Why blockchain is different from a relational database or other distributed ledger technologies
- How blockchain is used in business applications
- The nuts and bolts of a blockchain network, including participants, assets, transactions, and smart contracts
- How to architect a typical BaaS application as a standalone multiuser application
- Current BaaS offerings and how to choose the one that’s right for you
- Five industry-changing use cases for BaaS, including international trade, identity verification, and royalties tracking
- Examples of how BaaS may be used in the future
Patents
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Social Shopping Apparatus, System and Method
Filed US 13/350,321
Courses
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Cognitive Computing - Question Answering Technologies Behind IBM Watson
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Magento Developer Certification Preparation Study Group
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NASDAQ Milestones
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Sound Empowerment Workshop - Jim Donovan - 2013
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Summer SEAL - University of Texas
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iCorps Go - National Summer Cohort 2018
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Projects
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Designer's Guide to Magento
Revamped the Designer's Guide to Magento for versions CEv1.4+, PEv1.8+, EEv1.8+.
Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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IBM Champion, 2020-2023
IBM
Selected as IBM Champion, Blockchain, AI specialty
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Recipient, NW Arkansas Council Life Works Here
NW Arkansas Council
I was one of 100 people selected to move to NW Arkansas, out of 66,000+ entries. https://findingnwa.com/incentive/
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IBM Blockchain COVID-19 “Back-to-Work” Contest Grand Prize Winner
IBM
Selected as a Grand Prize Winner for our Casey case management system.
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Bose Sound Sanctuary Winner
Bose Corporation
My essay was selected as a winner in the Bose Sound Sanctuary competition.
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i-Corps Go / National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
I-Corps is a program that is designed for university teams to research potential innovations that can turn into sustainable, repeatable business models. We were accepted into the pilot program for private sector called I-Corps Go, and awarded a $25,000 research grant. This is conjunction with our Carnak project, with the aim of discovering technology that will reduce deaths caused by traffic accidents.
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Kilroy Blockchain selected as Finalist in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards for the Riley app
Fast Company
Kilroy Blockchain was a Finalist in the Apps category for the Fast Company 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards
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Finalist - SXSW Release It Challenge 2018
South by Southwest
Kilroy Blockchain was announced as one of ten finalists in the 2018 South by Southwest Release It Challenge.
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Built In Austin's 50 Startups to Watch in 2018
Built In Austin
Kilroy Blockchain was selected as one of Austin's 50 Startups to Watch in 2018!
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IBM Watson Build North America Champion
IBM
Kilroy Blockchain was selected as the winner for North America for IBM Watson Build, for our smart phone app Riley (RealLife Adventure). Riley helps blind and visually impaired persons to better visualize the world around them by using a smartphone or tablet, and the cognitive power of Watson.
Organizations
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Society of Motion Picture and Television Producers
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Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
Member
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Content Authenticity Initiative
Member
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AI Tech Meetup
organizer
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IEEE
member
- PresentIEEE Women in Engineering IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
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