Dr.
Roland Alton-Scheidl
Dr.
Roland Alton-Scheidl, (ras@pvl.at) is founder
and managing director of PUBLIC VOICE Lab, an
R&D co-op for media technologies located in
Vienna, Europe. He had studied Computer Science
and Media Art and was formerly working on Technology
Assessment projects at the National Academy of
Sciences. In the last eight years, he designed
and developed PUBLIC VOICE's Audiotex service
portfolio and acquired and managed a number of
several million Euro sized R&D projects, such
as Web4Groups, Senior Online, SELECT, StreamOntheFly
or in the field of e-Democracy. He is committed
to use and promote Open Source technologies and
develops co-operative business models. He is also
managing the InterMedia course at the University
of Applied Sciences in Vorarlberg, Austria.
Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong
Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong is a Staff Software
Engineer in the IBM Pervasive Computing Division,
Boca Raton, FL. He has worked with IBM for over
4 years. Soonthorn is one of the leading technical
contributors for the Multimodal Browser development
group. Previously, he worked on the first two
releases of the Voice Toolkit for WebSphere Studio
product, where he was responsible for the grammar
editor component. Soonthorn was also a key member
of IBM's original multimodal browser development
team, having worked on the Voice In WAP Out (VIWO)
and See What I Say (SWIS) architectures. He received
a Master's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
from University of Florida.
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RJ Auburn
RJ Auburn, Chief Technology Officer, Voxeo Corporation
drives Voxeo's significant technology leadership
in the internet and voice solution industries,
and also leads the research, evaluation, and design
of Voxeo's carrier class Voice Centers. RJ is
Editor and Chair of the W3C Call Control XML (CCXML)
standard and working group, and oversees Voxeo's
leadership contribution to VoiceXML, ENUM/DNS,
and other industry standards. RJ is also an acknowledged
expert in the fields of voice recognition, call
center integration, and call control and conferencing.
Prior to Voxeo, RJ was a Senior Consultant at
Quality Call Solutions, a leading supplier of
IVR and CTI solutions for the enterprise call
center market. RJ frequently speaks at technology
conferences throughout the United States RJ also
maintains a blog covering news on the Voice over
IP and Speech industries at http://www.rjauburn.com.
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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 Technical
Services Assistant for the IEEE-ISTO. In this
position she provides Technical and Communicational
support for the VoiceXML Forum, the VoiceXML Review
and the VoiceXML Forum Education Committee.
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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.
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Pavel Cenek
Pavel
Cenek graduated at the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic in 2000
and received master degree in mathematical informatics.
He started and interrupted Ph.D. studies and currently
is affiliated with a Norwegian applied research
institute Norut IT. He is the principal designer
and developer of the VoiceXML platform Elvira.
His research interests are focused on human language
technologies with stress to the dialogue systems
and human-computer interfaces.
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Dr.
Deborah Dahl
Dr.
Deborah Dahl is a consultant in speech technologies
and their application to business solutions.
Dr. Dahl chairs the W3C Multimodal Working
Group and is a member of the W3C Voice Browser
Working
Group. Dr. Dahl is a frequent speaker at speech
industry trade shows and is the editor of the
forthcoming book, "Practical Spoken Dialog
Systems".
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Bina Dames
Bina Dames is a Staff Software Engineer in the
IBM Pervasive Computing Division, Boca Raton,
FL. She has worked with IBM for 5 years. Her current
assignment is technical Test Development and Execution
lead for the Multimodal Browser Test group and
she has been involved in developing FVT, RDCs,
and SVT test suites as well as testing the Multimodal
Toolkit. Previously, she worked in the Embedded
ViaVoice Test team in the areas of Accuracy, FVT,
and SVT testing for various Embedded platforms
and operating systems. Also, she was a software
tester for Travel and Transportation and VisualAge
for Jave IDE teams. She received her Bachelor's
degree in Computer Science from North Carolina
Agricultural & Technological State University.
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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.
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Jim
Ferrans
Jim
Ferrans has worked at
Motorola since 1999 on the
VoxGateway, an advanced VoiceXML 2.0 system that
is source-licensed to voice platform vendors,
voice hosting companies, and voice application
companies. Jim was on the VoiceXML 1.0 design
team, and is an editor of the VoiceXML 2.0 specification.
He began his career at Lucent, where he was lead
architect and language designer for an SQL-based
database system. After a stint at Gould Research,
he co-founded Vista Technologies in 1986, where
he led the development of various software and
hardware design tools. In 1996 Vista sold itself
to Peritus, where Jim managed the development
of several successful Y2K remediation tools.
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Stuart
Harding
Stuart
has a 20-year background in sales, business development,
and operations with high technology companies.
Prior to joining CoAssure, he worked in the areas
of data networking and security. He served as
Director of Business Development for SecuGen Corporation,
a start-up in the field of biometric security,
working toward partnerships with major corporations
in the financial/banking industry and networking
and security. Previously, Stuart worked for 5
years at Xyratex International where he initiated
a successful Networking Division for high-speed
test products. At Xyratex he last served as the
Director of Business Development, but also held
sales management positions. Before that, Stuart
worked in the data storage industry for Read-Rite
Corporation and ProQuip, Inc. in sales and account
management. He started his career at Intel Corporation
in operations and production planning. Stuart
holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a
BA from the University of Mississippi.
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Christopher
Harrick
Chris
Harrick is currently a 2nd year MBA student
at the Haas School of Business at the University
of California at Berkeley. This past summer
he worked as a MBA summer intern at IBM Corporation
in Cambridge,MA as part of IBM's Extreme Blue
internship program. He focused on analyzing
the voice technology market. Before returning
to school to pursue his MBA, Chris held various
product marketing positions at Siebel Systems,
a leading provider of Customer Relationship
Management software.
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Igor Jablokov
As
Program Director of IBM's multimodal and voice
portal initiatives, Mr. Jablokov leads a worldwide
team focused on developing speech technology
for IBM's On Demand vision. His responsibilities
include extending speech to perform enterprise
transactions as well as enabling multimodality,
a capability that allows users to intuitively
access information through a variety of channels.
Additionally, he serves as a business mentor
for IBM's Extreme Blue internship program and
represents the Company on the board of directors
for the VoiceXML Forum, an industry group driving
an open standards-based vision of speech computing.
Previously,
Mr. Jablokov held positions with IBM's Pervasive
Computing, PartnerWorld, Global Industries and
Microelectronics divisions. He holds a bachelor's
degree in computer engineering from the Pennsylvania
State University and an MBA from the University
of North Carolina."
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David Jaramillo
David Jaramillo is a Senior Software Engineer
in the IBM Pervasive Computing Division, Boca
Raton, FL. He has worked with IBM for over 13
years. His current assignment is technical lead
for the Multimodal Browser development group.
Previously, David worked in the embedded ViaVoice®
development team in the areas of telematics and
hand-held for various embedded platforms and operating
systems. In a previous life, David was one of
the leading software engineers in the development
of multiple releases of the OS/2 operating system.
He received a Master's degree in Computer Science
from Florida Atlantic University.
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Jim Larson
Dr. James A. Larson is Manager, Advanced Human
Input/Output for Intel Corporation. He is the
co-chair of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group
and member of the W3C Multimodal Working Group.
He teaches courses in building speech applications
and user centric design at Portland State University
and at the Oregon Graduate Institute in Oregon
Health and Sciences University. His book, VoiceXML--Introduction
to Developing Speech Applications is available
from Prentice Hall. Jim is a columnist for Speech
Technology Magazine and co-program chair for Speech
Technology Conference this September in New York
City.
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Austin Lee
Austin Lee is an intern from the Georgia Institute
of Technology working in the Embedded Voice Testing,
part of the IBM Pervasive Computing Division,
Boca Raton, FL. He has been with IBM since August
2002. His primary assignment has been developing
tests for the Multimodal Browser project. In addition,
he worked with the embedded ViaVoice team on the
test execution and data analysis of the Korean
language component. Currently, he is a graduating
senior seeking B.S. degrees in Computer Science
and in Mathematics.
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Peter
Leppik
Peter
Leppik is founder and CEO of Vocal Laboratories
Inc. VocaLabs performs usability, market, and
customer-satisfaction assessment of telephone-based
services, using its panel of thousands of individuals
to provide quality feedback to organizations with
rapid turnaround time. Prior to founding VocaLabs
in 2001, Mr. Leppik was an industry analyst at
Dain Rauscher Wessels following companies providing
call center and related technologies.
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Benjamin
Lewis
Benjamin
Lewis is graduating from the University of
Michigan Ross School of Business with an MBA
in May 2005. Prior to entering school Benjamin
started and sold BidCentives.com, a successful
B2B
marketing company. Benjamin spent his MBA internship
at IBM in the Extreme Blue program where he
worked with engineers to create a prototype
multimodal application using IBM technology.
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Dr.
Scott McGlashan
Dr. Scott McGlashan, Chief Technologist Interactive
Media Products, HP. Over the past 15 years, Scott
has pioneered the development of advanced user
interface technologies, including speech, multimodal
and mobile applications. He was founder and CTO
of PipeBeach before its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard
in July 2003. He is co-chair of the W3C Voice
Browser Working Group, and leads the team responsible
for VoiceXML.
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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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Brent Metz
Brent D. Metz is a staff software engineer at IBM in Boca Raton , Florida working on IBM's WebSphere Voice Toolkit. He is a domain expert in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technologies, speech user interface design and speech tooling design. He represents IBM on the VoiceXML Forum's Tools Subcommittee and is the administrative lead for the open source Eclipse Voice Tools project. Brent received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Virginia Tech. Prior to joining IBM, Brent was the grand prize winner of the Cool Blue VoiceXML Challenge, an international VoiceXML application design competition.
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Richard Miranti
Richard Miranti is an Advisory Software Engineer
in the IBM Pervasive Computing Division, Boca
Raton, FL. He has over 19 years of software development
experience at IBM working in various capacities.
Rich is currently working as a technical writer
with emphasis on programming guides. Rich received
a Bachelor s degree in Computer Science
from Florida Atlantic University and a Masters
Degree in Business from New York Institute of
Technology. In his spare time Rich enjoys a leisurely
bike ride along the beaches of South Florida.
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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.
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David
Pearce David
Pearce Leads a team in Speech and Multimodal
Interfaces within Motorola Labs (UK). He
has 20 years experience contributing to research
in the area of speech recognition and synthesis
and multimodal interfaces. He is chairman of
the ETSI Aurora DSR working group responsible
for the creation of international standards
for Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR)
and the raporteur for Speech Enabled Services
(SES) in 3GPP SA4 (codecs).
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Brad Porter
Brad Porter joined Tellme as the company's fifth employee. He developed
Tellme's original VoiceXML interpreter and served as Platform Architect
responsible for overseeing system scalability and VoiceXML interpreter
development initiatives. He serves on the W3C standards committee as an
editor of VoiceXML 2.0 and a lead architect for their Multimodal
initiatives. Within Tellme's Office of the CTO, Brad is directly involved
in strategic platform and product work. Before joining Tellme, Brad helped
architect Netscape Netcenter's personalization and cobranding infrastructure.
Brad is graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he
earned a Master's of Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science.
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Kenneth
G. Rehor
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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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.
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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.
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Andrea Rutherfoord
Andrea Rutherfoord is a technical writer (contractor)
in the IBM Pervasive Computing Division, Boca
Raton, FL. She has written documentation at IBM
for over 5 years on various speech and handwriting
recognition products. Her current assignment includes
writing documentation for multiple releases of
the Voice Toolkit, Multimodal Toolkit, and Multimodal
Browser. Previously, she was a technical writer
for another software development company, a professor
at DeVry University, and the author of two textbooks
on writing in vocational fields. She received
her Master's degrees from Florida International
University and Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D.
from Georgia State University.
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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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Roberto Vila
Roberto Vila is a Software Engineer in the IBM
Pervasive Computing Division in Boca Raton, FL.
He has worked at IBM for over 2 years on various
embedded speech projects. His current position
is development lead of IBM's Java Speech API (JSAPI)
implementation of Embedded ViaVoice. Previously,
Roberto was responsible for testing Embedded ViaVoice
and the Multimodal Browser on various platforms
and languages. He received his Bachelor's degree
with distinction in Computer Science from Duke
University and is currently completing his Master's
degree in Computer Science at the University of
Southern California.
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Andrew Wahbe
Andrew Wahbe is the Technical Manager of the Multimodal and Developer Tools group at VoiceGenie Technologies. He leads a team that is responsible for delivering tools to facilitate speech application development and deployment, as well as extending VoiceGenie's platform to support multimodal applications. Prior to VoiceGenie, Andrew was the System Architect for AOL's Voice Services Division which developed the AOLbyPhone consumer voice portal and the AOL Voicemail unified messaging system. Andrew has a B.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
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Marc White
Marc White is a Staff Software Engineer in the
IBM Pervasive Computing Division, Boca Raton,
FL. With over 14 years of experience in software
development, more than three of them at IBM, Marc
is currently working on the Multimodal Browser
development. Previously, Marc worked on the first
three versions of IBM s continuous dictation
product, ViaVoice for the Macintosh®. In his
spare time Marc enjoys disc golf and hanging out
at the beaches in sunny South Florida.
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