BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Symbolic and Heuristic Computation, Stanford University; PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Hertz fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University. Scientist and entrepreneur; has created and grown five companies. Formerly: taught at Stanford University; engineer and Researcher, Phoenix Laser Technologies, Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems, and The Carnegie Group Incorporated; Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Sandbox Advanced Development, an advanced development technology company. 2003-10, Co-Founder and Chairman, Zivio Technologies, an intellectual property holding company. Director, New Projects, Google, working to help the company explore new potential business areas. Co-Founder and Director, Cerebellum Capital, a hedge fund management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Co-Founder and Director, BodyMedia a leading wearable body monitoring company. Holds numerous U.S. patents related to work in hardware and software technology. Work in science, literature, art and business has appeared in international media, incl. New York Times, CNN and NPR. Frequent speaker at national and international technology, government and business forums on the future of intelligent technology.