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T. Sibley Verbeck
[homepage] Founder of The Electric Sheep Company - the largest company in the world dedicated to designing experiences and delivering add-on software for 3D virtual worlds. Sibley is the former Chief Scientist of StreamSage, Inc. and Comcast Online. He is a leading researcher in advanced computational linguistic and statistical techniques for analyzing audio, video, and text.

David Gobel
Father of shared 3-D virtual environments and pioneer creator of first avatars. Co-Founder of Knowledge Adventure, earliest and highly successful educational multimedia software company. Founder of Worlds Inc, co-creator of Starbright World, allowing seriously ill children to connect with friends and family online. Founder and CEO of the Methuselah Foundation, curator of the multi-million dollar Mprize for life extension research.

Pejman Makhfi
[homepage] Silicon Valley technology veteran, serial entrepreneur and angel investor in the high-tech industry. Widely known as a leader in the field of Business Process Automation and Knowledge Modeling, Pejman has an extensive background in the software and financial industries and has been the key architect for several award-winning industry leaders, such as FinancialCircuit and Savvion. Background includes executive position at TEN, a top Silicon Valley technology incubator hosting more than fifty Start-ups.

Jeff Reed PhD
[homepage] Experience in both start-ups and established national/international businesses, as well as private investment. Chief Technology Officer of Logicalis, a global $550M revenue IT services company employing more than 1,500 people. President of a startup image search company called ActiveSymbols™.

 

Company » Scientific Advisors

Eric B. Baum PhD
[homepage] Eric B. Baum has held positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, and the NEC Research Institute. He holds a BA and MA from Harvard and a PhD in physics from Princeton. He has published extensively in theoretical physics, machine learning, machine reasoning, cognitive science, and DNA computing. He is currently developing algorithms for cognitive computing related to the ideas in What is Thought?

Stan Franklin PhD
[homepage] W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Memphis. Recipient of the University’s Board of Visitors Eminent Faculty Award, a FedEx Institute of Technology founding fellow, and Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. Research is motivated by wanting to know how minds work—human minds, animal minds and, particularly, artificial minds. For many years has worked on “conscious” software agents, that is, autonomous agents modeling a psychological theory of consciousness. This research funded by the US Navy and subject of over forty papers. Authored or co-authored over a hundred academic papers and several edited volumes, as well as authoring a book entitled Artificial Minds (MIT Press).


Hugo de Garis PhD
[homepage] Father of Evolutionary Engineering and Evolvable Hardware. CAM-Brain Machine architecture widely considered the ‘high water mark’ in AI hardware development. CAM-Brain Machine was initially developed for Japan's Ministry of Industry & Technology and later in Brussels by directive of the European Commission. Latest book is The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligence.

Pei Wang PhD
[homepage] Designer of NARS, a general-purpose intelligent system that adapts to its environment and works with insufficient knowledge and resources. Implemented several versions of the system, and published many papers and a recent book, titled Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence (2006).