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Gerald
M. Karam
October
2001: Building
the VoiceXML Forum Certification Program
January 2001: Open
Dialog: Activities of the VoiceXML Forum and 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
January
2001: Speak
& Listen
February 2001: Speak
& Listen
March 2001: Speak
& Listen
April 2001: Speak
& Listen
May 2001: Speak
& Listen
August/September 2001: Speak
& Listen
October 2001: Speak
& Listen
November 2001: Speak
& Listen
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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Rob
Marchand
January
2001: First
Words
February 2001: First
Words
March 2001: First
Words
April 2001: First
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May 2001: First
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June 2001: First
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July 2001: First
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August/September 2001: First
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October 2001: First
Words
November 2001: First
Words
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
October
2001: Building
the VoiceXML Forum Certification Program
January 2001: What
is XML?
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,
where he chairs the Conformance Committee, and
the W3C Voice Browser Working Group, where he
serves as one of the editors of VoiceXML 2.0.
He currently works for Nuance Communications.
Ken 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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