KAUST: a living laboratory for innovation and advanced tech

KAUST: a living laboratory for innovation and advanced tech

Jason Roos has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for just under three years. ". Prior to coming to Saudi Arabia, I was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of a large cancer research centre in Southern California and the CTO and Vice President of Stanford University's medical centre.. Over the last 10 years we have been working to build state-of-the-art facilities that will ultimately help to change the economic landscape of Saudi Arabia.". Within the 'smart city' we have research centres from multiple Fortune 500 companies including Dow, Aramco and SABIC.. Within the world of technology, Roos highlights that, globally, there is a strong buzz around utilising artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-performance computing in order to leverage autonomous functions and high levels of intelligence to enhance an organisation's capabilities. ". Being an entire ecosystem city we have the ability to control almost every variable to thoroughly test these vehicles to develop a usable service.". "It adds to the situational awareness, which provides a level of intelligence that we can apply to automation," adds Roos, "in the past you could automate, but you couldn't predict, which