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Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Magic
Location: San Francisco, California, United States 30 work roles 3 schools
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Barney Pell previously worked as Venture Partner at Radical Ventures and Founding Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab. Barney Pell holds Ph.D., Computer Science, Ai from University Of Cambridge.

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I'm an active start-up enterpreneur, investor and advisor with over 200 investments. I enjoy helping bring advanced technology and big ideas into real applications and markets that change people's lives. I am currently Founder and CEO of Graphstax AI, a stealth AI startup.I am a Fellow in the Creative Destruction Laboratory, one of the world's top start-up accelerators, an angel investor and VC with my own fund and syndicate, World Changing Ventures, and Venture Partner at Radical Ventures. I have been active in startup companies as founder, executive and advisory roles for over 20 years. I was Founder and CEO of Powerset, a natural language search engine that Microsoft acquired. I then stayed on with Microsoft as search strategist and evangelist for Bing, Microsoft's new consumer search engine, and later as architect and general manager for Bing's Local/Mobile Search team. While at Microsoft, I led the company's long-range planning for semantics and knowledge and co-founded Bing's Knowledge Graph and Cortana, Microsoft's conversational assistant. Before starting Powerset, I was at Mayfield VC as an Entrepreneur in Residence.I was also co-founder of Moon Express, a start-up developing a commercial lunar lander; LocoMobi, a leader in smart cities and intelligent transportation systems, and Associate Founder of Singularity University. I was a founding investor and then Chairman of the Science Advisory Board for Figure Eight, a leader in human-in-the-loop machine learning, until successful acquisition by Appen; a founding investor and key advisor for Streamlit from inception until acquisition by Snowflake, and an early advisor to LinkedIn. Earlier startups included StockMaster.com, a leading online financial content provider and Whizbang! Labs, a leading innovator of web-based information extraction agents. I have also been a long-time AI research leader. I managed an 85-person AI R&D organization at NASA. Highlights included flying the first AI system in deep space (on the Deep Space One mission), the first spoken dialog system in space, and supporting the Mars Exploration Rovers mission.Specialties: AI, Machine Learning, NLP, search, e-Commerce, software agents, knowledge management, data mining, information extraction, forms processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, space exploration, financial services, intelligence, government IT, strategic planning, mergers and acquisition, decision analysis, Parking, Space.

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Magic
Magic
Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist and Head of AI
San Francisco, CA, US
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30 roles · 19 years

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Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist And Head Of Ai

San Francisco, CA, US

Founding Fellow

Current

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Creative Disruption Lab is the world's leading startup incubator for AI and Machine Learning companies. The CDL originally started in the Rottman Business School, University of Toronto. The University is one of the leading centers in the world for Machine Learning. As one of 7 Fellows, and a founding Fellow in the Machine Learning track, I mentor, assess.

Oct 2015 - Present

Lecturer

Current

Stanford, CA, US

Lecturer in the Harnessing Big Data: Analysis to Action (HAIBD) course, co-organized by Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). My talk on Crucial Questions for Applying AI is the wrap-up talk in the 3-week program.

Jul 2019 - Present

Board Member

Current

San Francisco, US

UCSF Health Hub is a non-profit designed to help UCSF inventors and qualified entrepreneurs from the local community access the support and professional development they need to grow and build successful companies. UCSF Health Hub connects ideas and companies with the people, expertise, and capital needed to grow and scale breakthrough healthcare solutions.

Oct 2018 - Present

Associate Founder And Trustee

Current

Mountain View, California, US

Singularity University is dedicated to educating present and future leaders in the areas of exponetially accelerating technologies.

Jan 2009 - Present

Founder

Current
Decision Theory

Decision Theory is an an incubator, advisory and investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and decision science strategy and technologies for small and large companies.

Aug 2002 - Present

Advisor

Current
Pharma Surveyor

PharmaSurveyor builds tools to help patients and health care professionals understand the interactions across all the drugs they take and find optimal combinations of drugs to minimize side effects and costs. It is truly world changing technology and I can benefit anyone who prescribes or takes drugs.

Jan 2006 - Present

Member Board Of Directors

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Ionomr has developed revolutionary ion exchange membrane technology that drastically improves efficiency and performance while minimizing cost and environmental impact:* Hydrogen generation to fuel the hydrogen economy* Hydrogen fuel cells to power vehicles, ships, buildings and more* Onsite recovery of chemicals for heavy industry – lithium, mining and.

Oct 2017 - Dec 2020

Member Board Of Directors

Ecoation Innovative Solutions Inc (Eis).

The Ecoation artificial intelligence platform predicts the type, location and level of crop stress using plant signals, and communicates this intelligence daily to growers on their phone or computer.Measuring plant signals is the most accurate way to predict crop stress. Plants never lie about their own health. We measure changes in plant physiology.

Sep 2017 - Oct 2020

Chairman Of The Scientific Advisory Board

Arlington, VA, US

CrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop platform for data science teams. CrowdFlower helps customers generate high quality customized training data for their machine learning initiatives, or automate a business process with easy-to-deploy models and integrated human-in-the-loop workflows. The CrowdFlower platform supports a wide range of use cases.

Oct 2016 - Oct 2019

Founder, Vice Chairman And Chief Strategy Officer

Cape Canaveral, Florida, US

Barney Pell is a co-founder Moon Express (MoonEx), a privately funded lunar transportation and data services company building autonomous robotic lunar landers. We want to be the first private company to land on the moon and help establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit. The company is the first private entity in history to.

Apr 2010 - Jul 2019

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer

Toronto, Ontario, CA

LocoMobi is reinventing parking technology and experiences for drivers, owners and operators through innovations and integration of cloud, mobile, embedded devices, and AI technologies.

Apr 2014 - Apr 2019

Advisor

Austin, Texas, US

Investor and Adviser to startup in social games space, founded by Richard Garriott (Lord British, creator of the successful industry-defining Ultima series and Ultima Online).

Jul 2011 - Jul 2014

Chairman And Ceo

QuickPay is a mobile parking search and payment application that is bringing the major trends of digital innovation to the parking industry. In April 2014, QuickPay renamed to LocoMobi and I shifted role from CEO to Chief Strategy Officer.

Aug 2011 - Apr 2014

Advisor

Speak With Me

Speak With Me is a startup creating voice-based interfaces to music and navigation systems. I advise the company on business development and corporate strategy.

Jun 2005 - Jan 2012

Partner Architect And Development Manager

Redmond, Washington, US

I joined Microsoft when they acquired my startup company, Powerset. While at Microsoft, I was a Partner-level executive strategist, evangelist, architect, and development manager for Bing. Key contributions included: Influenced strategy across a spectrum of Bing feature areas, evangelized Bing to US and international audiences, led the development of.

Sep 2008 - Sep 2011

Advisor

Machine Intelligence Research Institute
2007 - Jun 2010

Investor/Advisor

Angel investor and advisor for real-estate search startup, from first Y-Combinator round until acquisition by Trulia, now Zillow.

2010 - 2010

Investor/Advisor

Appjet, Inc.

Angel investor and advisor to startup that made Etherpad, until acquisition by Google. Product subsequently became Google Docs.

2009 - 2010 ~1 yr

Advisor

Sunnyvale, CA, US

LinkedIn is the excellent business networking site you are currently using. As an early advisor to the company, I provided early frameworks and feedback on technologies and user interfaces for data extraction and search, product strategy, and perspectives on the the product experience as a power networker.

Jul 2004 - Jan 2009

Founder And Ceo

US

Powerset is a San Francisco company building a transformative consumer search engine. Powerset's unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword.

Sep 2005 - Aug 2008

Entrepreneur In Residence

Mayfield

Generate and helped evaluate potential investments in early to mid-stage companies. Focus areas included information management (advanced search and navigation, information integration, multi-modal interfaces), social software (social networks, blogs, wikis, P2P), and intelligent agents, with applications to internet search, business intelligence.

Mar 2005 - Nov 2005

Area Manager, Collaboration And Assistant Systems

Moffett Field, California, US

R&D management for 85 person IT research organization working on topics like:- knowledge management- information integration- enterprise search- collaborative information portals- human-centered computing- work practice modeling and simulation, and- spoken dialog systemsCustomers/missions included:- Mars Exploration Rovers mission- Shuttle- International.

Dec 2002 - Mar 2005

Vice President, Strategy And Business Development

Whizbang! Labs

Managed vision and definition of overall strategy, including product and corporate strategy, for emerging provider of advanced web and text-processing software and services. 120-person, $7M/year company.Customers included Dun & Bradstreet, Thomson Financial, LexisNexis, Reed Elsevier, Monster.com and Citysearch. Partners included Google and Northernlight.

Nov 2000 - Aug 2002

Chief Strategist And Vice President, Business Development

Stockmaster.Com

Managed strategy, negotiation, and implementation of partnerships for content acquisition, content distribution, and e-commerce, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions. Helped company grow from 5 to 70 employees and from $500,000 to $4,500,000 annual revenue in two years. Developed content co-branding (B2B2C) business from scratch into major growth.

Aug 1998 - Aug 2000

Senior Computer Scientist And Principal Investigator

Moffett Field, California, US

As a Principal Investigator, I conducted basic research in planning, execution, control, intelligent agents, information management, data mining, and software architecture.I was also Software Architect and a team leader for the Remote Agent (RA), the first software agent to fly onboard a deep space probe (during the NASA's Deep Space One mission). RA is.

Sep 1993 - Sep 1998

Phd Student And Instructor

Cambridge, England, GB

PhD research in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence. Thesis title: "Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing". Topics included game playing, search, agent architecture, machine learning, and strategy. Also instructor for Diploma in Computer Science and Master's program in Computer Speech and Language Processing.

Oct 1989 - Aug 1993

Visiting Research Scientist

Menlo Park, CA, US

Member of the natural language processing research group. Wrote software for creating knowledge from text and for integrating multiple linguistic systems. Designed a discrete-event simulation of an office order-processing system and interfaced a language system to support queries, commands, and creation of rules.

Jun 1987 - Jun 1989

Student, Teaching Assistant And Instructor

Stanford, CA, US

B.S. in Symbolic Systems, with Artificial Intelligence concentration.. Teaching assistant for advanced artificial intelligence course, and instructor for introductory computer course.

Oct 1986 - Jun 1989
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Barney Pell education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Ai

University Of Cambridge

B.S., Symbolic Systems

Stanford University

High School Diploma

James Monroe High School
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Barney Pell is listed as Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Magic.

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Barney Pell is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Magic.

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Barney Pell has worked for Magic, Radical Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab, Stanford University Graduate School Of Business, and Ucsf Health Hub.

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Barney Pell holds Ph.D., Computer Science, Ai from University Of Cambridge.

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