Board of Directors

Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith (Founder/Chairman)

§2 Dr. Ericsson-Zenith has extensive research and development experience in computer architecture, parallel computing, programming language design and implementation, and human factors.

§3 He has conducted research, by invitation, at Yale University and the Ecole NS des Mines de Paris. He completed his doctorate in Computer Science in 1992 at Paris VI Université Pierre et Marie Curie, traditionally the science department of the Sorbonne.

§4 Since 1994 he has been an active technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and CEO of his own ventures since 1998. Until 2002 he was CEO of The Kiss Principle, Inc. a company licensing advanced content categorization and human factors technology to Microsoft.

§5 Previously Dr. Ericsson-Zenith held senior research and development positions at Oracle and INMOS (now STMicroelectronics). He was a contributing architect to the Transputer microprocessor and a principal contributor to the parallel processing languages Occam and Linda. His Ease model for parallel processing that extended these models is implemented in high performance computing projects in Australia, and he is a contributor to the widely used MPI High Performance Computing message passing standard.

§6 His publications include “Parallel Processing and Artificial Intelligence” (editor), “Process Interaction Models,” (doctoral thesis) and the “Occam 2 Reference Manual.” He is also the sole author of several patents developed in his work with Microsoft in the area of AI/HCI (intelligent conversational interfaces). In 2007 he was awarded an important AI/HCI conversational interface patent “Interactive multimedia user interface using affinity based categorization.” (7,284,202)

§7 Since 2002 Dr. Ericsson-Zenith has conducted independent basic research focused upon the foundations of logic and apprehension and the future technologies that this work enables. This work provides the initial vision and foundation of our efforts.

§8 Dr. Ericsson-Zenith is Chairman of the Board and has long standing professional relationships with the other directors.

Professor Suresh Jagannathan

§9 Suresh Jagannathan is Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a Senior Director at Storage Networks, Inc., and a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research, Princeton. His research interests span programming languages, compiler design, software engineering, and concurrent/distributed systems. He has published widely in these areas, with over 60 journal and conference publications. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Parallel Programming.

§10 Professor Jagannathan completed his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

§11 Professor Jagannathan and Dr. Ericsson-Zenith were research colleagues at Yale University. Professor Jagannathan was also a member of Dr. Ericsson-Zenith's doctoral thesis committee.

Bob Krysiak

§12 Bob Krysiak is Corporate Vice President of STMicroelectronics, President and General Manager of STMicroelectronics Great China. He manages all aspects of STMicroelectronics business in the Greater China region. This includes responsibility for all joint ventures in manufacturing and research, sales and marketing.

§13 Bob Krysiak joined INMOS in 1983 as a VLSI Design Engineer and eventually became the Design Manager of the Transputer product family. In 1992, now for STMicroelectronics, Bob formed a group to produce CPU core-based products based on the Transputer for application in Set Top Boxes, Mobile Phones and GPS/Navigation systems etc...

§14 Bob was appointed group vice president and General Manager of Microprocessor and DSP division in 1997. He has been instrumental in forming a number of important Microprocessor Research and Development partnerships.

§15 In 1999, Bob Krysiak became the Group Vice President of the Micro Cores Development Division and subsequently was appointed Division Manager for the DVD division. His division organization has significant operations in many countries including the UK, France, Germany, China, India and the US.

§16 He graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc in Electronics specializing in Microprocessors. He also holds an MBA from the University of Bath.

§17 Bob Krysiak and Dr. Ericsson-Zenith were colleagues at INMOS, where they worked together on the Transputer microprocessor.

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