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John Markoff

Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute for HAI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, Markoff covered Silicon Valley, cybersecurity, and computing for The New York Times for 28 years, breaking stories on the World Wide Web and Google's self-driving car program. He has authored several histories of technology, including Machines of Loving Grace and What the Dormouse Said.

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1appearances
28statements
14resolved
10supported
3contradicted
71%fully supported
7said about them ↓

Everything John Markoff said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Markoff: Symantec was originally founded as an AI company
“One was Tech Knowledge and the other was Symantec. You know, most people don't know that it started as an AI company, but it did.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:54 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
a16z Assertion Supported
Kaplan and Brooks pursued AI after watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
“They both decided to go into AI because of Space Odyssey, 2001. They both saw Hal and said, I want to build that.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:00 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Markoff: Europe is spending $1 billion to develop elder care robotics
“Europe. They're spending a billion dollars to try to develop elder robots.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:49 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
a16z Assertion Supported
Markoff: Doug Engelbart identified semiconductor scaling five years before Moore's Law
“I'm the one who stumbled across the paper in the Stanford archives that Doug Engelbart wrote in 1960, where he looked at this brand new technology of semiconductors, and he pointed out that it scales.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:43 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff

The other half of the tape: John Markoff's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 1 episode across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about John Markoff, by other people (1)

a16z Assertion Supported
Andreessen: The first NYT article on Mosaic featured uninvolved supervisors
“The bad news is it featured my boss and my boss's boss. Who had nothing to do with the project?”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 1:11:40 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)

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a16zLEDGER Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute for HAI 1 28 71% 10/14 full record on the a16z Podcast →
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