Nicholas D'Aloisio [born Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla] 1 November 1995- Inventor of Summly app
University of Oxford, Philosophy, Graduate Student
"Nick was
born in London to expat Australian parents – Lou, a commodities trader, and
Diana, a lawyer – in 1996. The family moved back to Melbourne shortly after
Nick was born. When he turned seven (and his brother, Matthew, was three),
the D’Aloisios relocated to Wimbledon, south-west London, where they have
been ever since." (Source:
Telegraph) "Nick D'Aloisio (born Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla November 1, 1995) is a British-born Australian entrepreneur and computer programmer who created Summly which is a summarization, artificial intelligence technology developed with SRI International. D'Aloisio
has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture
capital in technology at just 15 years of age. As of March 2013, Summly was
sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars making him one of the
youngest self-made millionaires ever.
Education D'Aloisio was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon, south west London. In the summer of 2014, he took A-level examinations in three subjects. He is also a student at Oxford University, where he completed the BPhil Graduate Programme in Philosophy in July 2021 which allowed for automatic progression onto the doctorate course (DPhil), and has published seven papers in peer-reviewed philosophy journals. He is particularly interested in researching consciousness and cognitive access. Experiences & Opportunities Summly In March 2011, D'Aloisio [aged
15] launched an iOS app named Trimit, which used an algorithm to condense
text such as emails and blog posts into a summary of 1000, 500, or
140-character text. With 100,000 downloads, the app was featured as on the
Apple App Store. Shortly afterwards, Trimit attracted the attention of
business magnate Li Ka-Shing, who provided 16-year-old D'Aloisio with
US$300,000 in venture capital investment. After gathering feedback,
D'Aloisio re-designed the app and renamed it Summly in December 2011. Summly aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones, with the initial version of Summly being downloaded by over 200,000 users. He hired a team from Israel, including a scientist named Inderjeet Mani, who specialised in natural language processing, to improve the app. With corporate support, in November 2012, D'Aloisio received US$1 million in new venture funding from celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry, in addition to Li Ka-Shing. In March 2013, D'Aloiso sold Summly to Yahoo! for approximately US$30 million. He joined Yahoo! as a product manager the same month. Yahoo News Digest Sphere
He enjoys the humanities, cricket
and rugby. He does not even study computing at school - you get the
impression there would be little point anyway.
The first iteration of the app,
called TrimIt, clocked up 100,000 downloads and caught the eye of Horizons
Ventures.
Update:
LinkedIn Unlikely AI He am currently highly involved in the AI space [2021]: he is working as Head of Strategy at Unlikely AI and I’m also currently completing a PhD (DPhil) on hierarchical predictive coding at the University of Oxford. (Source: Academia)
Links: YouTube: Interview with Nick D’Aloisio
A Boy and His App: The Story of Yahoo News Digest
Coding is fun! Create a new app! Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and communication technology (ICT) capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy
1. You are to go to Code.org to learn to code. 2. Start at the beginning lessons (Course 2 onwards) and work you way up to creating an app as Nick has done! 3. Report to On the Job about your new app!
Online: A Fairy Tale Story or Fable? Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
1. Read about this inventor from the information and links above. 2. Using the following websites, convert this real story into either a Fairy Tale or Fable to encourage young people to strive for their dreams as Nick has done. For the Fable: what will be your moral?
YouTube: The Elements of a Fairy
Tale:
3. Write his story as a Fairytale or Fable using VoiceThread or Animoto 4. Create a collection of photos about yourself and save to your computer. Play with Stupeflix [Free], an easy to use video making website or app and create a video of your fable as it applies to you and your dreams. Material sourced from:
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