Steven Woods
| Steven Gregory Woods | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 16, 1965 Melfort, Saskatchewan |
| Occupation | Google site director in Waterloo, Canada. Former Quack.com Co-founder and NeoEdge Co-founder & Director. |
Steven Gregory Woods (born June 16, 1965) is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding Quack.com, the first popular Voice portal platform, in 1998.
Born in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Woods holds a Ph.D and M.Math from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan. He was the first Ph.D student of Professor Qiang Yang. Woods' Ph.D was published in 1997 as a book co-written with Alex Quilici and Qiang Yang entitled "Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments" He then worked for Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute on product line development and practical software architectural reconstruction and analysis.
In 1998 Woods co-founded Pittsburgh-based voice-portal infrastructure company Quackware with Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici. Quackware became Quack.com in 1999 and moved headquarters to Silicon Valley. It was funded September 1, 1999, and acquired August 31, 2000 by America Online. Quack.com claimed to be the first Voice Portal, and held patents around interactive voice applications, including "System and method for voice access to internet-based information".
Woods was vice president of voice services for America Online and Netscape after the acquisition of Quack.com in September, 2000.
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