D-TH4 Hands-on AI Session – Zoom

Late 4 Week Class | Registration opens Saturday, August 1, 2026 12:00 AM

Zoom New Paltz, NY 12561 United States
Zoom
10/22/2026-11/12/2026
9:00 AM-10:30 AM on Th

To assist you in preparing for this Class, we have provided a link to the setup / test pages from the conference provider. If you have never used this conference service before please click on the link below so that your PC or device will be ready to participate in this Class.

D-TH4 Hands-on AI Session – Zoom

Late 4 Week Class | Registration opens Saturday, August 1, 2026 12:00 AM

The field of AI is in the news constantly these days. It is also showing up in our lives in more places, including the summary section of most online searches. Knowing what the various technologies can do for us in our lives, and where there is still a lot of development required before they will be truly useful is important now more than ever. To supplement any information, you may be encountering ‘in the abstract’ we will be using hands-on experience as the basis of this class. The emphasis for these sessions is to develop some real ‘muscle memory’ and have live experiences using your own computing devices to interact with the common online AI assistants. 

This class will be held via Zoom to accommodate people that want to use their own computer setup at home rather than bring their device to class. We will only be using free applications so there won’t be any cost involved in using the technologies. 

If you intend to do the exercises live during class, then you probably want to have 2 devices so that you can access the Zoom call on one of them and the Assistant Website on the other. This class will be geared more toward people that have experience using Assistants.



Don Grice

Don Grice has an PhD in Electrical Engineering and worked at IBM in system design for close to 50 years, including a big emphasis on Man-Machine Interaction and large-scale parallel supercomputing.  His thesis was in Voice Recognition and Communication, similar to what we all take for granted today with systems like Siri and Alexa. He also worked with IBM’s Research Division on programs like Deep-Blue, the Chess Playing Machine, and Watson, the Jeopardy machine.