Joni Brennan
Joni
Brennan is finishing her B.A. studies of Information
Technology and Informatics, at Rutgers University,
School of Communication, Information and Library
Sciences (SCILS) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
She has focused her study on topics including:
Information Visualization, Social Informatics
and Web Development. She is currently interning
for the IEEE-ISTO, in a position in which she
provides Technical and Communicational support
for the VoiceXML Forum, the VoiceXML Review and
the VoiceXML Forum Education Committee.
Dave Burke
Dave
Burke is Chief Architect at Voxpilot. He has in-depth
experience in design and implementation of solutions
incorporating VoiceXML and related specifications.
Dave is a co-founder of Voxpilot and leads all
aspects of the technology effort. Dave studied
Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin,
Ireland, received a Masters of Engineering Science
degree in Biomedical Engineering, and is currently
concluding a PhD in dynamical systems modeling
of brain electrical activity.
Jonathan Engelsma
Jonathan
Engelsma wrote his first voice-enabled application
in 1995 when he
worked in Motorola's Intelligent Network organization.
He currently works at
Motorola on Motorola's VoiceXML interpreter. Dr.
Engelsma also serves as
Editor-in-Chief for the VoiceXML Review e-zine
and chairs the VoiceXML
Forum's Education Committee. He earned his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Science at Michigan State University.
Motorola is a founding member
(Sponsor) of the VoiceXML Forum.
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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Matt Oshry
Matt
Oshry is a regular columnist for the Speak &
Listen column in the VoiceXML Review. Matt is
currently the Content Manager at Tellme Networks.
Previously, Matt spent seven years at Microsoft
writing technical documentation.
Claudia
Romellini
Claudia
Romellini received her degree in Computer Science
from the University of Torino. In 1988 she joined
CSELT (Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni
of Telecom Italia). Where her working experiences
have been in the areas of WEB application development
applied to document management systems and Information
Retrieval engines. She also managed several projects
either in the domestic market and in the international
cooperation contextIn 2000 she took the responsibility
of HTML voice browser integration in Loquendo
and of specific voice service development projects.
Today she is currently responsible of the development
of tools supporting all Loquendo products, especially
concerning VXML support. She is also responsible
of Loquendo Training programs and of Loquendo
Café' WEB site, a site offering free resources
for the VXML developer comunity.
Rakesh
Tailor
Rakesh
Tailor graduated from the University of Waterloo,
which is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,
with a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering. At VoiceGenie,
Rakesh has managed the design, development and
deployment of various developer tools including
the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop
(http://developer.voicegenie.com),
SpeechGenie Workshop (http://www.speechgenie.com)
as well as VoiceGenie's VoiceXML development environment,
GenieIDE. Currently, Rakesh is leading VoiceGenie's
efforts in designing and developing the next generation
of OA&M tools for VoiceGenie's industry leading
VoiceXML Platform.
David L. Thomson
David
Thomson has worked 18 years in speech compression,
recognition, and synthesis and chairs the VoiceXML
Tools Committee. He graduated Summa Cum Laude
from Brigham Young University in 1983. He received
his MSEE, also from BYU, and joined AT&T Bell
Labs (later Lucent) in 1984. He received a Eta
Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer
of the Year Honorable Mention in 1994. He has
eight U.S. patents and has authored or coauthored
over 20 technical papers.
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