Barney Pell
| Barney Pell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 |
| Residence | San Francisco, CA |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | computer science |
| Institutions |
SRI NASA Ames Research Center Microsoft Powerset Moon Express LocoMobi Singularity University |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University (BA 1989) Cambridge University (PhD 1993) |
| Thesis | Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing |
| Doctoral advisor | Steve Pulman |
| Other academic advisors | Manny Rayner |
| Notable awards | Marshall Scholar |
Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and computer scientist. He is co-founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Moon Express; co-founder and Chairman of LocoMobi; and Associate Founder of Singularity University. He was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft's Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing in Artificial Intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.
Pell received his bachelor of science degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University in 1989, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar. Pell earned a PhD in computer science from Cambridge University in 1993, supervised by Stephen Pulman, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
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