Professor Robert MacCulloch: AI Founder Shane Legg Narrowly Misses out on the Nobel Prize.....

Rotorua Lakes High School AI Founder Shane Legg Narrowly Misses out on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This Blog has long followed the career of our most influential (now London-based) New Zealander Shane Legg, since we find his rise from Rotorua Lakes High School to become one of the world's most influential people, remarkable. Its on a par with Nelson-born Kiwi Ernest Rutherford.

Robert MacCulloch: The Boy from Rotorua who Changed the World. How? We Don't Know Yet.

Forget fancy pants folks growing up in posh suburbs in the likes of London, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo or Dubai. People who change the world can come from anywhere, any background. Take local boy, Shane Legg, who was a student at Rotorua Lakes High School. He is incredibly low key and yet gave up his time to quietly meet up with me in London many years ago during which we discussed some of NZ's long-standing constraints.