J.J. Allaire (RStudio) and Jeremy Howard (fast.ai): "2-way AMA"
Channel: Jeremy Howard
Date: 28/07/2022

In this wide-ranging discussion, Jeremy and J.J. share stories about their journeys, motivations, and methods in working on scientific computing and publishing.

J.J. Allaire is the founder and CEO of RStudio and creator of the RStudio IDE. RStudio develops free and open source software for R and Python, and enterprise-ready professional products that help teams who use open source data science tools scale and share their work. Quarto® is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.  In recent years J.J. has focused on tools for reproducible research and interoperability, including Quarto (tools for scientific communication) and R Markdown, as well as the reticulate, htmlwidgets, sparklyr, tensorflow, and keras R packages.

Jeremy Howard is a founding researcher at fast.ai and hon professor at the University of Queensland. fast.ai is a research and teaching lab dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. Jeremy has built a number of successful startups and published numerous high impact research papers and open source software products.