Business Address:

Education and Training:

• 1987 - 1984: Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Northwestern University
• 1984 - 1979: Doctoral Student, Department of Physics, Northwestern University

Professional Activities:

• Present-2002: Disaggregate, Speech Technology Consulting
• 1996 - 2002: Dialogic / Intel. Senior System Architect for Speech Technology
• 1991 - 1996: AT&T / Lucent - Bell Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff, Speech Technology
• 1987 - 1991: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff, Special Services for National Security
• 1984 -1997: Northwestern University, Assistant Director, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
• Present-2002: Chair, Midwest Speech Technology Association
• Present-2004: Board Member, Applied Voice Input Output Society
• 1990 - 2001: Enterprise Computer Telephony Association

Professional Organizations:

• American Physical Society, 1980 - 1987
• Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum, 1993 - 2001
  • 2000 - 1993 Chair, Automatic Speech Recognition Task Group
  • 2001 - 2000 Technical Chair (Member of Board of Directors)
• Signal Computing Signal Architecture
  • 1993 - 1990 Chair, Automatic Speech Recognition Task Group
• Midwest Speech Technology Association
  • 2002, Founder
  • Present-2002, Chair, Board of Directors
• Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS), Present-2004

Professional Awards:

• "Hall of Excellence/Spirit of Communication," AT&T, 1993; in recognition of successful deployment of speech recognition for operator services
• Assorted recognition awards (Bell Labs, ECTF)

Patents:

1. No. 5,396,536, "Automatic processing of calls with different communication modes [TDD] in a telecommunications system"
2. No. 5,724,481: "Method for automatic speech recognition of arbitrary spoken words" (coauthor)
3. No. 5,822,727: "Method for automatic speech recognition in telephony" (coauthor)

• Other patents pending

Selected Peer Reviewed Abstracts and Publications

American Voice Input-Output Society; San Jose, California, USA; "Sources of [Speech Recognition] Error[s] in Computer Telephony"; 1994(est.); talk and proceedings

Advanced Speech Applications and Technology (ASAT) Conference; San Francisco, California, USA; "Hardware and Software Architectures for Computer Telephony ASR [Automatic Speech Recognition]"; Spring, 1998; talk and proceedings

American Voice Input-Output Society; San Jose, California, USA; "New ASR Features in the Computer Telephony Industry-Standard S.100 API"; May, 1999; talk and proceedings

Dialogic Tech Summit; San Diego, California, USA; "Open Systems for Speech Technologies"; Fall, 1999; talk and proceedings

Voice Europe; London, England; "Computer Telephony Application Programming Interfaces for Speaker Verification and Identification"; November, 1999; talk and proceedings

Intelligent Network Industry Roundtable; Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA; "Applications in the Next Generation Network"; Fall, 2000; talk only

Dialogic Tech Summit; San Diego, California, USA; "Breaking the Application Barrier: VoiceXML and Dialogue Components"; Fall, 2000; talk and proceedings

Smithsonian Institution Industry Leaders Conference; Washington, D.C., USA; "Speech Technologies: 2001 and Beyond"; Summer, 2001; talk (recorded for Smithsonian archives)

SpeechTek Conference; New York, New York, USA; "Issues and Answers: Speech Technologies in the Next Generation Network"; November, 2001; talk and proceedings

Voice Over Network Conference (Pulver); San Francisco, California, USA; "Convergence Point: Speech Technologies, Voice, and Internet Standards"; Summer, 2001; talk and proceedings

Telephony Voice User Interface Conference; Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; "Disaggregation: How VoiceXML and SALT Will Revolutionize Speech Technology"; February, 2002; talk and proceedings

Selected Presentations

Fermilab General Colloquium; Batavia, Illinois, USA; "HAL Doesn't WorkHere -- May I Help You?: The Technology of Automatic Speech Recognition"; March, 1997

Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum, Spring Meeting; Cannes, France; "VoiceXML: Introduction for Developers"; Spring, 2000

Community Service

• President, Congregation Anshe Motele, 1999

• Cantor, High Holiday Services, Holidays, 1972 - present

• House Manager, Hugo Award Ceremonies, World Science Fiction Convention; 1996 (San Francisco), 1999 (Melbourne, Australia)

• Panelist, multiple science fiction conventions

• Phandemonium, Inc. (educational not-for-profit corporation); Manager for Corporate Processes and Effectiveness