Suzanna Lewis's guest appearances

Suzanna Lewis

The Laborastory

Sam Harris

Elon Musk

Daniel Kahneman

Julian O'Shea

Patti Smith

Tycho Brahe

Oliver Sacks

Richard Feynman

Sal Khan

John Harrison

Jane Goodall

Justin Schmidt

Hedy Lamarr

Ada Lovelace

David Whyte

OwlTail

Karin Verspoor

Karin is a third culture kid, or maybe a fifth culture kid, depending on how you count. Born in Senegal (that’s in West Africa) to Dutch parents, raised in America, married to a Spaniard, and living in Australia, she speaks 4.5 human languages and at least as many computer languages. She has developed mission control software for a NASA subcontractor, managed a team of Brazilian, Russian, and Kiwi software developers before there was Skype, worked in an office inside the security perimeter of a nuclear weapons facility, and eventually found her way back to a pretty normal academic job involving (unsurprisingly) computers and languages in Melbourne. She’s working on acquiring the nuances of her fifth (and a half) human language, Australian, and a sixth: the language of biology.

Professor Karin Verspoor on Suzanna Lewis