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Astro Teller is CEO and co-founder of Sandbox
Advanced Development. He is a Hertz fellow, computer scientist, and fiction
novelist. Astro completed his PhD in artificial intelligence at
Carnegie Mellon University in June of 1998. As an artificial
intelligence researcher, Astro has contributed numerous book chapters
and journal articles to his field of expertise, machine learning.
"Exegesis", Astro's fiction novel about the emotional development of
technology in our society, is available from Vintage Books. Articles
about Astro's work in science, literature, art, and business have
appeared in publications such as Newsday, IEEE Intelligent Systems,
Esquire, Wired, Der Spiegel, and USA Today and on National Public
Radio broadcasts such as "To the Best of Our Knowledge,"
"Tech-Nation," and "All Things Considered." Astro's views on science
have been solicited from organizations such as the New York Times and
the US Army. He holds a patent for the automatic pattern recognition
of complex signals such as images, sounds, text and brain-wave data.
Astro has worked as a teacher at Stanford University, as an
algorithmic consultant at Phoenix Laser Technologies, as a researcher
at Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems, and as a senior engineer
at Carnegie Group Incorporated. |