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of Dejima’s patented agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for
mobile and enterprise computing—the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Dejima was
one of only four private firms enrolled in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency)-funded Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Observes (CALO)
Project, managed by SRI International and one of the largest AI projects ever
funded. Babak served as the acting CEO of Dejima for 9 months from October
- In his past experience, he led several large computer networking and machine
learning projects at Neda, Inc. Babak received his PhD in machine intelligence from
Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan
Vijay Ingalalli is at LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Michael Kommendais at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University, Linz,
Austria
Arthur Kordon (retired) is CEO of Kordon Consulting, Fort Lauderdale, FL,
USA
Michael F. Korns is chief technology officer at Analytic Research Foundation,
Henderson, NV, USA
Mark E. Kotanchek is chief technology officer of Evolved Analytics, a data
modeling consulting and systems company
Krzysztof Krawiec is with the Computational Intelligence Group, Institute of
Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Gabriel Kronberger is at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
Nicholas Freitag McPhee is at the Division of Science and Mathematics, Univer-
sity of Minnesota, Morris, MN, USA
Vinícius Veloso de Melo is at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, and Institute of Science and
Technology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Nimrod Milo is at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University,
Beer-Sheva, Israel
Luis Muñoz is Tree-Lab, Posgrado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Instituto Tec-
nológico de Tijuana, Tijuana B.C., México
Ram Narasimhanis at GE Digital, San Ramon, CA, USA
Una-May O’Reilly is at ALFA, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ravi Palla is at GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA