H5 is privileged to receive the advice and support of our outstanding Scientific Advisory Board:
John Seely Brown, Ph.D.
“JSB” is the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Social Life of Information. From 1988 through 2000, he was Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). While head of PARC, he expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, sociological studies of the workplace, digital culture, and nanotechnology.
Dr. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a trustee of Brown University, the MacArthur Foundation, and In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit venture capital fund that helps the U.S. intelligence community develop new technologies.
JSB has won many awards, including the Industrial Research Institute Medal in 1998, the Software Development Forum’s Visionary Award in 2002, and induction into the Technology Industry Hall of Fame in 2004. He serves on the board of directors of Polycom, Corning, and Varian Medical Systems. He earned a doctorate in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan.
Mitchell P. Marcus, Ph.D.
Mitchell Marcus is the RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds an appointment in linguistics. He was the principal investigator in Penn’s renowned Treebank project, a linguistic corpus consisting of millions of words of American English used in natural language processing, speech recognition, and integrated spoken language systems.
Dr. Marcus is a fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and the former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. He studied linguistics and applied mathematics at Harvard before receiving a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
Daniel Hillis, Ph.D.
Danny Hillis is the co-chairman and CTO of Applied Minds, Inc., a research and development company creating products and services in software, entertainment, biotech, and mechanical design. He pioneered the concept of parallel computers (now the basis for most supercomputers), as well as the RAID disk array technology. As a consultant, he has helped companies such as AT&T, Xerox, Kodak, Schlumberger, IBM and Hewlett-Packard develop technology-related business strategies. He was also Vice President for R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a Disney Fellow.
Dr. Hillis has served on numerous company boards, and was named as part of Upside Magazine’s “Dream Team” board of directors. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association of Computing Machinery, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a former member of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. Danny Hillis is also the designer of the Clock of the Long Now, a 10,000-year mechanical clock. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.
H. Paul Zeiger, Ph.D.
Dr. Zeiger is the former chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was one of the pioneers in the theory of computing and software engineering, and has advised businesses in these areas. Dr. Zeiger earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from MIT in electrical engineering. His general-interest publications include “Ending the Holy War Between Academia and Business.”
Conversations with H5's Advisory Board