Head, AI Foundations Lab - Reasoning at IBM Research AI
Greater New York City Area
Lucid AI
Consulting Computer Scientist
October 2015 to Present
Austin, Texas Area
Cycorp
Independent Contractor
October 2015 to Present
Curious Cat Company
CEO, co-Founder
February 2012 to Present
Austin, Texas Area
StartOut
Board Member
November 2012 to Present
Austin, Texas Area
New Zealand on the Web
Founding Principal
1994 to Present
Cycorp raziskovanje in ekspermentalni razvoj d.o.o
CEO
April 2007 to Present
Envigence Ltd.
CTO
September 2011 to Present
Cycorp Inc
Vice President for Research
May 2001 to October 2015
Universität Innsbruck, Austria, STI
Part-time Researcher
July 2009 to September 2011
Lycos
Principal Scientist
1999 to 2001
Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center
Scientist
1997 to 1999
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science
Systems Scientist
1996 to 1997
IBM
Summer Research Intern
1989 to 1989
IBM
Summer Research Intern
1989 to 1989
What company does Michael Witbrock work for?
Michael Witbrock works for Lucid AI
What is Michael Witbrock's role at Lucid AI?
Michael Witbrock is Consulting Computer Scientist
What industry does Michael Witbrock work in?
Michael Witbrock works in the Computer Software industry.
📖 Summary
Michael Witbrock received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and currently is Founder and CEO at Curious Cat Company, building assistants that actually understand you and what you do, he is also Vice President for Research at Cycorp, and CEO at Cycorp Europe, where he leads research in automated knowledge acquisition from text and dialogue, automated reasoning, and intelligent human-computer interaction. Previously he was Principal Scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge based approaches to understanding web user behavior, a research scientist at Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center, working on statistical text summarization, and a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon on the Informedia spoken and video document information retrieval project. His dissertation work at CMU was in the area of machine learning for speaker modelling. Dr Witbrock frequently acts a an expert consultant to the European Commission in the area of human-computer collaboration for eGovernment, and is technical director of the FP7 LarKC project. He is author of numerous publications in areas ranging across neural networks, parallel computer architecture, multimedia information retrieval, web browser design, genetic design, computational linguistics and speech recognition and is a inventor on six US patents. Specialties: AI Entrepreneurship; Research management; Machine learning, automated inference, parallel computer architecture, intelligent information retrieval, computational linguistics and collaborative systems, and speech recognition.Consulting Computer Scientist @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Austin, Texas AreaIndependent Contractor @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) CEO, co-Founder @ Curious Cat is a helpful, inquisitive, mobile companion based on hard AI. We're interested in talking to great back-end platform scalability developers with an interest in AI and to anyone who also dreams of making computers who care about people. From February 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Austin, Texas AreaBoard Member @ StartOUT is a non-profit organization that develops and supports entrepreneurship in the LGBT community. From November 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaFounding Principal @ One of the first travel and tourism web sites on the Web, founded with other New Zealanders and Kiwiphiles to promote New Zealand, NZ.COM morphed into one of the major sites promoting tourism and travel to New Zealand. From 1994 to Present (21 years) CEO @ Founder of the European agent for Cyc, (CYCORP, RAZISKOVANJE IN EKSPERIMENTALNI RAZVOJ D.O.O.) Cycorp.eu, in 2005. Appointed CEO in 2007. From April 2007 to Present (8 years 9 months) CTO @ Integrating cognitive technologies and distributed sensing with high efficiency public lighting From September 2011 to Present (4 years 4 months) Vice President for Research @ From May 2001 to October 2015 (14 years 6 months) Part-time Researcher @ From July 2009 to September 2011 (2 years 3 months) Principal Scientist @ From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Scientist @ From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Systems Scientist @ From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) Summer Research Intern @ From 1989 to 1989 (less than a year) Summer Research Intern @ From 1989 to 1989 (less than a year) PhD, Computer Science @ Carnegie Mellon University From 1986 to 1995 Postdoc, Computer Science @ Carnegie Mellon University From 1995 to 1996 B.Sc. (Hons), Psychology @ University of Otago From 1980 to 1984 Michael Witbrock is skilled in: Research Management, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Information Retrieval, Entrepreneurship, Computational Linguistics, Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Semantic Web, Java, Perl, Distributed Systems, Software Development
Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
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