Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan, founder of Onsale, the father of touchscreen pens and tablets, is an associate professor at Stanford University and author of the artificial intelligence era. He is a well-known computer scientist. He has published over 20 academic papers at ACM and IEEE conferences. He was the first to create touchscreen pens and tablets, and also the earliest to design the prototype of smartphones. He founded GO Company in 1987 to design and develop tablets, 20 years before the iPad. He co founded the online auction website Onsale in 1994, three years before eBay., The book recommended by Li Kaifu in the era of artificial intelligence, which he wrote, has been translated into multiple languages and published worldwide. The book discusses that the arrival of the intelligent age has brought two major impacts to human society: persistent unemployment and the widening wealth gap. In this book, Kaplan establishes a complete ecosystem from mechanisms such as enterprise, taxation, and insurance, enabling everyone in society to benefit from technological development. This is the symbiotic form in which humans and machines can achieve mutual benefit in society, and Jerry Kaplan has a rich personal experience. He has achieved considerable success in both the academic field and the corporate field. As an inventor, he invented many technologies that are now used in daily life, such as the backend database of a natural language consulting system that he invented during his collaboration with SRI International in 1981. He also wrote the first numeric keyboard program. In 1987, he developed the Lotus Personal Assistant Platform, which was also the first personal assistant platform