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Jeff
Kunins
Jeff
is a respected industry leader in the fields of
voice application networks and VoiceXML technology.
He is a frequently invited speaker at leading
trade conferences, and is often quoted in press
articles focusing on voice technology. Jeff regularly
contributes articles to publications including
VoiceXML Review and WirelessDevNet.com,
and is currently co-authoring one of the first
books on VoiceXML development. Upon joining Tellme
in early 2000, Jeff co-conceived, built, and managed
the debut of Tellme Studio. Tellme Studio is the
world's first and most popular VoiceXML resource
suite that now supports a community of over 10,000
developers and 1,000 publicly deployed appliations.
Currently, Jeff's team helps define and articulate
Tellme's strategic direction for meeting the needs
of Enterprise customers, and is responsible for
all technical marketing, sales tools, and enterprise
pricing structure. Previously during a four year
tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of
platform and consumer efforts including Microsoft
Passport, Microsoft SILK advanced Web server technology,
and Microsoft Cinemania. He is a co-inventor of
patent pending technologies for distributed Web
authentication and key management, and helped
drive Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail and
Firefly Networks. Outside of work, Jeff is a critically
acclaimed composer and sound designer for live
theatre..
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Pilar
Manchón
Pilar
Manchón is the senior computational linguist
at NetByTel, Inc. She studied English Philology
at the University of Seville, Spain and specialized
in Translation and Interpretation in Ghent, Belgium.
Sponsored by The British Council and La Caixa,
she received her Master of Science degree in Cognitive
Science and Natural Language, with a focus on
Speech from Edinburgh University in Scotland.
The Fulbright Commission then sponsored her research
at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar,
and at the same time as an International Fellow
in the Artificial Intelligence Department, Spoken
Dialog Systems Group, SRI International.
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Rob
Marchand
Rob
Marchand is Director of Products and Services
Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob
has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999,
and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications
since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible
for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com),
and new products and services development. Rob
is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee,
and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor
to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the
VoiceXML Forum.
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Dr. George White
Dr.
George White is chief scientist at NetByTel. His
primary interests are in spoken language processing
(especially automatic speech recognition), the
psychology of human interfaces, interfaces to
telecommunications networks and organizational
behavior. Previously he was Director of Magic
Labs and Director of Speech Technology at General
Magic, Inc. While there he led design of the Voice
User Interface for General Magic's virtual assistant
telephony services. Mr. White studied computer
science at Stanford University. After leaving
Stanford in 1970, he joined the Xerox PARC Research
Center. He subsequently worked with Apple Computer
where he helped create and then managed the Apple-ISS
Research Center in Singapore. After that he was
Director of the Industrial Affiliates Program
of the Center for the Study of Language and Information
at Stanford University and was founder and CEO
of NETalk, Inc., which was acquired by General
Magic.
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