Gerald M. Karam

VoiceXML Review articles: Open Dialog: Activities of the VoiceXML Forum and the W3C

Dr. Gerald M. Karam is the Department Head, Innovative Services Research with AT&T Labs - Research in Florham Park, N.J. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Since joining AT&T in 1995, his primary research has been on new platforms for consumer and business telephony services. He has been instrumental in the development of the VoiceXML Forum and the VoiceXML 1.0 specification, where he was a key technical contributor; this was an outgrowth of his work at AT&T on the Phone Markup Language. He currently chairs the VoiceXML Forum Conformance and Education activities and participates in the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. He speaks frequently on VoiceXML for AT&T and the VoiceXML Forum. His current research interests include telecommunications software, platforms and services, and concurrent, real-time systems. He has numerous refereed journal and conference papers, and co-authored a Prentice-Hall text Principles of Computer Systems.

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Jeff Kunins

VoiceXML Review articles: Speak & Listen (January 2001)

Jeff Kunins manages Tellme Studio, the premier open community and toolset for VoiceXML developers, and in addition helps define and articulate Tellme's strategic direction for meeting the needs of Enterprise customers. Previously during a four-year tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of platform and consumer efforts including Passport and Cinemania. He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies for distributed Web authentication and key management, and also actively worked on Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail and Firefly Networks. Jeff is currently the co-chair of the Software Developers Forum Voice SIG, and writes WirelessDevNet.com's "Ask the Expert" column on voice technologies. Outside of technology, Jeff is an acclaimed composer and sound designer for live theater.

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Rob Marchand

VoiceXML Review articles: First Words (January 2001)

Rob Marchand is Director of Products and Services Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999, and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com), and new products and services development. Rob is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee, and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the VoiceXML Forum.

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Kenneth G. Rehor

VoiceXML Review articles: What is VoiceXML?

Kenneth G. Rehor is co-creator of the voice-enabled Web architecture and technology. While with the Bell Laboratories Research division of Lucent Technologies (previously part of AT&T), he built the first web-based telephony platform in 1995, and is co-author of Bell Labs' Phone Markup Language. These formed the basis for AT&T's PhoneWeb service, Lucent's TelePortal platform, and Motorola's VoxML language, predecessors to VoiceXML. He led Lucent's creation of the VoiceXML Forum and was co-author of VoiceXML 1.0. Ken is active in both the VoiceXML Forum, leading a subcommittee on conformance testing applications, and the W3C Voice Browser Working Group, as one of the editors of VoiceXML 2.0. He was most recently Chief Technology Officer of Enuncia Communications, a provider of VoiceXML servers and tools. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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