Artificial Intelligence and Research
Dr. Harry Wong earned his PhD in Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence from the University of Toronto and has written more than fifty research papers. His technical background gives him a long view of AI—well before today's generative-AI boom—and also a healthy skepticism about treating technology as an answer by itself.
Teaching and Business Leadership
He taught at the University of Toronto and San Francisco State University, then built and led an enterprise software company for thirty-five years. Major corporate customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, used products from his company for optimization, communication, and migration to the enterprise cloud. Those experiences reinforced a conviction that technology alone is never enough: judgment, communication, trust, and human understanding determine whether powerful tools truly serve people.
Author of The Human Role in the Age of AI
Harry's book series brings together his experience as a researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, employer, father, grandfather, and community lecturer. The books are written for general readers—not only technologists—and focus on the human capabilities that become more important as AI becomes more capable: judgment, critical thinking, curiosity, relationships, communication, character, purpose, and responsibility.
Family Perspective
Harry is a father of four and a grandfather of three. Family life shapes his approach to AI because the technology is not only changing businesses and schools; it is changing the choices families make and the world younger generations will inherit. He writes and lectures with the goal of helping generations develop a shared language for navigating that future together.
Music and Human Connection
Harry is also a classically trained singer who has performed in opera houses, concert halls, community settings, senior communities, and programs for older adults, including people living with memory loss. Singing has reinforced one of the central ideas running through his work: human beings are not simply processors of information. We are memory, emotion, relationship, dignity, music, and meaning.
Across AI, business, education, books, family, and music, the through-line is the same: technology can expand capability, but human judgment gives it direction and human connection gives it meaning.