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Gerald
M. Karam
VoiceXML Review articles: Open Dialog: Activities
of the VoiceXML Forum and the W3C
Dr.
Gerald M. Karam is the Department Head, Innovative
Services Research with AT&T Labs - Research in
Florham Park, N.J. Previously, he was an Associate
Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Since joining AT&T in 1995, his primary research
has been on new platforms for consumer and business
telephony services. He has been instrumental in
the development of the VoiceXML Forum and the
VoiceXML 1.0 specification, where he was a key
technical contributor; this was an outgrowth of
his work at AT&T on the Phone Markup Language.
He currently chairs the VoiceXML Forum Conformance
and Education activities and participates in the
W3C Voice Browser Working Group. He speaks frequently
on VoiceXML for AT&T and the VoiceXML Forum. His
current research interests include telecommunications
software, platforms and services, and concurrent,
real-time systems. He has numerous refereed journal
and conference papers, and co-authored a Prentice-Hall
text Principles of Computer Systems.
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Jeff
Kunins
VoiceXML Review articles: Speak & Listen
(January 2001)
Jeff
Kunins manages Tellme Studio, the premier open
community and toolset for VoiceXML developers,
and in addition helps define and articulate Tellme's
strategic direction for meeting the needs of Enterprise
customers. Previously during a four-year tenure
at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of platform
and consumer efforts including Passport and Cinemania.
He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies
for distributed Web authentication and key management,
and also actively worked on Microsoft's acquisitions
of Hotmail and Firefly Networks. Jeff is currently
the co-chair of the Software Developers Forum
Voice SIG, and writes WirelessDevNet.com's "Ask
the Expert" column on voice technologies. Outside
of technology, Jeff is an acclaimed composer and
sound designer for live theater.
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Rob
Marchand
VoiceXML Review articles: First Words (January
2001)
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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Kenneth
G. Rehor
VoiceXML Review articles: What is VoiceXML?
Kenneth G. Rehor is co-creator of the voice-enabled
Web architecture and technology. While with the
Bell Laboratories Research division of Lucent
Technologies (previously part of AT&T), he built
the first web-based telephony platform in 1995,
and is co-author of Bell Labs' Phone Markup Language.
These formed the basis for AT&T's PhoneWeb service,
Lucent's TelePortal platform, and Motorola's VoxML
language, predecessors to VoiceXML. He led Lucent's
creation of the VoiceXML Forum and was co-author
of VoiceXML 1.0. Ken is active in both the VoiceXML
Forum, leading a subcommittee on conformance testing
applications, and the W3C Voice Browser Working
Group, as one of the editors of VoiceXML 2.0.
He was most recently Chief Technology Officer
of Enuncia Communications, a provider of VoiceXML
servers and tools. He earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in Electrical Engineering, and Master of
Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer
Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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