Sunday, November 3, 2024

MEET THE WHEELCHAIR USER MAKING GOOGLE MAPS MORE ACCESSIBLE

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN


"It’s a basic human right to enter a place like anybody else,” says Sasha Blair-Goldensohn.

This simple ideal can seem maddeningly out of reach for wheelchair users in America’s largest and most expensive metropolis.

But for Blair-Goldensohn, a 48-year-old software engineer and United Spinal member from New York City, it’s the driving force of his life.

In 2009, Blair-Goldensohn lived in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and used the subway on the daily commute to his job at Google’s Chelsea office.

With a doctorate based in artificial intelligence and natural language processing from Columbia University, Blair-Goldensohn was working in AI when it was still a behind-the-scenes tool.

No comments:

Post a Comment