Adam Cheyer
Telephone: (510) 388-2121
Email: adamcheyer@netscape.net
URL: http://adam.cheyer.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Technical
Leader: Hired and managed
research and development teams in public companies (VP Engineering,
Verticalnet: 70 developers, responsible for products resulting in $100M in
software sales), startups (VP Engineering, Dejima: deployed products at
Salesforce.com, SAP, France Telecom; company successfully acquired by Sybase),
and academic/research environments (Program Director, SRI: responsible for
product definition, architecture, and engineering management for one of the largest
A.I. programs ever funded, 250 researchers including 25 academic and commercial
subcontractors).
Visionary: Award-winning researcher at SRI International, author of
more than fifty peer-reviewed publications and nine
Operator: Responsible for satisfying the carrier-grade availability
and scalability requirements of a telecommunications company (France Telecom),
the security requirements of a major ASP (Salesforce.com), and the enterprise
integration requirements of a global trading exchange (Converge).
Builder: Authored software used in fifty countries (Bull's NOEMIE
configurator) and on the international space station (OAA part of
"Clarissa" project, deployed by NASA in December 2004).
Specialized
Expertise: Domain knowledge
in supply chain and business intelligence, wireless and mobile computing,
search, knowledge management, and web service frameworks and standards. Hands-on
experience working with all aspects of artificial intelligence (e.g.
machine learning, information retrieval, natural language dialog, speech
recognition, planning, reasoning, scheduling, expert systems, vision, neural
networks). Research in semantic information systems, web-service
architectures, distributed agent coordination, advanced user interfaces (e.g.
multimodal, adaptive, collaborative, dialog-based).
EMPLOYMENT
EXPERIENCE
SRI International,
The
world's largest not-for-profit independent research organization, SRI has been
"inventing the future" since 1948. SRI innovations include the mouse,
hyperlinks, HDTV, and the first Internet and ARPAnet transmissions.
Program Director, Cognitive Computing Group
Responsible for the technology, vision and engineering
management for several large AI projects:
Chief Architect of the CALO/PAL project, an ambitious
effort to create a next-generation personal cognitive assistant that learns and
self-improves "in the wild" (e.g. with no code changes). Responsible
for the vision and for all technical deliverables from this multi-year,
250-person, $33M/year project. The deployed software integrates
state-of-the-art AI technologies from 25 universities, and commercial companies
into a system that can provide user value and show improvement on a set of
yearly SAT-like tests.
Designer and Product Manager for IRIS, an open source, ontology-based
Personal Information Manager (PIM) that enables individuals and teams to
organize, integrate, search, and share their work-related information (e.g.
email, files, web, contacts, projects) for increased productivity.
Technology Lead for Vanguard, an SRI Presidential Initiative
in the mobile computing space. For European telecom companies, provided
strategic thinking, multiple application concepts, and several prototype
systems leveraging advanced web service infrastructures and multimodal user
interfaces.
Dejima, Inc.,
Dejima,
Inc. develops natural interaction software products that enable companies to provide
their end-users with easy, intuitive, direct access to applications and
services. Customers include Salesforce.com, SAP,
Vice President, Engineering
Responsible for all aspects of development for Dejima's product line, including
product management, engineering, and engineering services (QA, Training,
Support, Technical Publications, IT). Dejima's products include a suite of
integrated development tools supporting a patented approach to software
engineering; a carrier-grade application server for deploying highly available
and scalable Dejima applications; and a number of applications providing
natural-language enhanced Direct Access to consumer and enterprise content and
services.
In one
year, helped Dejima develop a new product providing
"use-your-own-words" access to sales force data over wireless devices
(email and web), deploy it initially as a Dejima-hosted service, OEM it to
Salesforce.com and SAP, and now Dejima Direct SFA is used by more than 250
companies.
Deployed
two applications meeting carrier-grade operational requirements of a mobile
operator (France Telecom), to provide "use-your-own-words" access
over SMS for location-based services.
Product
manager for three releases of the Dejima Direct Platform, a set of development
and runtime tools for creating, testing, deploying and monitoring Dejima
applications.
Designed
the
Verticalnet, Inc.,
One
of the top IPO's of 1999, VerticalNet ran a network of 59 industry-focused
marketplaces offering content, community tools, and collaborative commerce for
30,000 suppliers and millions of users/buyers. For enterprises and industry
consortiums such as Converge,
Verticalnet's software products provide trade functionality, data visibility
and spend management across the supply chain. Revenue in 2000 was $112M, and
$125M for 2001.
Vice President Engineering,
Responsible for managing Verticalnet's distributed development teams creating
products for deployments totaling more than $100M of committed revenue.
Verticalnet's products include a set of integrated trading
applications (auction, reverse auction, RFQ, structured negotiation), C2 Suite
(an ontology-driven distributed data visibility and comprehension framework),
OSM, an advanced web-service platform for managing intelligent integration
throughout the extended enterprise, and applications leveraging these,
including strategic sourcing, spend analysis, and demand visibility.
Development utilized Java/J2EE, WebLogic, WebMethods,
SQL Server, and Oracle.
Vice
President, Advanced Technology
Managed a multi-disciplinary team of business analysts, software engineers, and
research scientists, leading Verticalnet's advanced technology strategy and
development.
Headed
Verticalnet's participation in e-commerce related standards. Verticalnet is a
founding member of UBL, UDDI, BPML, an author of the Topic Maps (XTM) standard,
and a member of CommerceNet, RosettaNet, Ontology.org, ebXML, and UN/SPSC.
Led
projects on knowledge management, community, and intranets for Verticalnet.
Senior Director, Advanced Products and Strategy
Led marketplace development
effort for an electronic components trading hub.
Managed development of e-commerce
components, including a rule engine used for pricing and cross-sale/up-sale
logic, ontology development tools and apps, and a learning-based classification
tool for semi-automated mapping of supplier data.
SRI International,
Sr. Computer Scientist,
Primary inventor of a new approach to building complex, dynamic systems, called
Delegated Computing. Leader of research group focusing on distributed
agent architectures and advanced user interfaces for web services. Managed
successful projects for government and commercial clients totaling several
millions dollars in research and development.
Principal designer and developer
of the Open Agent
ArchitectureTM (OAA®), a
framework for constructing distributed applications using a dynamic community
of web services. OAA has been downloaded by thousands of developers around the
world, and used in many applications, including Clarissa, deployed to
astronauts on the International Space Station.
Architected
and contributed to the implementation of more than twenty-five OAA-based
applications, for the consumer, office worker, and for the government.
Contributor
to Douglas Engelbart's
Open
Hyperdocument System (OHS) project for advanced collaborative knowledge
management.
Co-Director,
Responsible for providing research direction for SRI's advanced user interface
group, comprised of eleven research staff and eight international visitors. Our
initial research focus was on "mediated spaces", where we constructed
six integrated applications - two for the home, two for the car, two for the
office, all implemented using a web services approach.
Bull S.A.,
Bull
Sr. Software Engineer
Responsible for the implementation of the core inference engine of
NOEMIE, an expert tool that automates the configuration of all hardware and
software orders from a product line of more than thirty thousand parts.
Direct returns for Bull have been
estimated at more than fifteen million dollars per year.
NOEMIE was
sold as a general-purpose commercial solution for complex configuration
problems, and has been used in more than fifty countries.
Involved in all aspects of
producing a major commercial software product, including internationalization,
localization, testing, installation, porting, and documentation.
PUBLICATIONS
& PATENTS
This list is selected from more than fifty
publications and eight
A Collaborative
Programming Environment for Web Interoperability. With J. Levy. 1st Workshop on Semantic Wikis,
IRIS: Integrate.
Relate. Infer. Share. With J. Park, R. Giuli. International Semantic Web Conference,
Communication and
Collaboration in a Landscape of B2B eMarketplaces. With D. Roddy and L. Obrst. Whitepaper
distributed by VerticalNet Solutions, Inc. June 2000.
Evolution
of the Laws that Deal with the Utilization of Information Networks. With B. Hodjat. BISC International Workshop on
Soft Computing for Internet, 15-19 Dec 2003, U.
US
Patent 6,757,718: Mobile Navigation of Networked-Based Electronic Information
using Spoken Input. With
C. Halverson, L. Julia, D. Voutsas.
US
Patent 6,691,151: Unified Messaging Methods and Systems for Communication and
Cooperation Among Distributed Agents in a Computing Environment. With D. Martin. Feb 2004.
The Open Agent Architecture.
With D. Martin.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 4 (1/2), pp.
143-148, March 2001.
Multimodal Maps: An
Agent-based Approach. With L. Julia. In book Multimodal Human-Computer Communication,
Lecture Notes in A.I. #1374, Springer, pp. 111-121. 1998.
MVIEWS: Multimodal Tools for
the Video Analyst. Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI'98), San Francisco, January 1998.
InfoWiz: An Animated
Voice Interactive Information System. With L. Julia.
Agents'99 (WS Communicative Agents) :
Computer
Skills & Activities
Programming
Languages:
Java, C#, C/C++, Ruby, Javascript, Prolog, Lisp,
Distributed
Objects, Agents & Web-Services: UDDI, WSDL, .NET, J2EE, CORBA, OAA,
FIPA
Systems
and Servers:
MySQL, Oracle 8i, MS Sql Server, WebLogic, WebMethods, under Windows NT/2000,
Linux and Unix. Knowledgeable about SAP and Oracle ERP systems
Engineering
Process Tools:
Version control (CVS, ClearCase), Issue tracking (JIRA, FogBugz, ClearQuest),
Continuous build (ANT, CruiseControl), Collaborative content management
(Plone).
Member of Technology Council for the Silicon Valley World Internet Center (2002-present)
Open Source developer of collaboration software for
Invited presentations to Fortune 500 executives: Delphi IKMS 1999, CSC Exchange 1998
Visiting professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Summer 2004). Teacher and invited lecturer on Agents and User Interfaces (WICS 1998, Stanford '97,'99,'05)
EDUCATION
M.S. Computer Science, UCLA (1993)
Awarded Outstanding M.S. Student,
Thesis: "Adapting Speech Synthesis Drivers to Graphical User
Interfaces"
B.A.
Computer Science, Brandeis
University (1988)
Graduated with highest honors