Background
Doctor Witbrock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Michael Witbrock
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Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
A native of New Zealand, he currently lives in Austin, Texas, and is the former Vice President of Research at Cycorp, which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine Artificial Intelligence. Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior. He has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.
Doctor Witbrock"s dissertation work was on speaker modeling.
Before going to Cycorp, he published in a broad range of areas, including: Neural networks Multimedia information retrieval Genetic design Computational linguistics Speech recognition Web-browser design His work at Cycorp has focused on improving its knowledge formation efforts, particularly dialogue processing, and on improving accessibility to the Cyc project
