Jose Ferreira Quotes

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

All the industries we deal with have a fundamental obligation to provide technology to education.

The online revolution of education has only just begun. There are two approached to solving educational problems: Government spending and Technology. My bet is on technology.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game.

Education is one of the industry categories with a big potential for AI. And Coursera is already doing some of this work.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.