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Gerald M. Karam
October 2001: Building the VoiceXML Forum Certification Program
January 2001: Open Dialog: Activities of the VoiceXML Forum and 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
January 2001: Speak & Listen
February 2001: Speak & Listen
March 2001: Speak & Listen
April 2001: Speak & Listen
May 2001: Speak & Listen
August/September 2001: Speak & Listen
October 2001: Speak & Listen
November 2001: Speak & Listen
Jeff is a respected industry leader in the fields of voice application networks and VoiceXML technology. He is a frequently invited speaker at leading trade conferences, and is often quoted in press articles focusing on voice technology. Jeff regularly contributes articles to publications including VoiceXML Review and WirelessDevNet.com, and is currently co-authoring one of the first books on VoiceXML development. Upon joining Tellme in early 2000, Jeff co-conceived, built, and managed the debut of Tellme Studio. Tellme Studio is the world's first and most popular VoiceXML resource suite that now supports a community of over 10,000 developers and 1,000 publicly deployed appliations. Currently, Jeff's team helps define and articulate Tellme's strategic direction for meeting the needs of Enterprise customers, and is responsible for all technical marketing, sales tools, and enterprise pricing structure. Previously during a four year tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led a diverse set of platform and consumer efforts including Microsoft Passport, Microsoft SILK advanced Web server technology, and Microsoft Cinemania. He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies for distributed Web authentication and key management, and helped drive Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail and Firefly Networks. Outside of work, Jeff is a critically acclaimed composer and sound designer for live theatre..
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Rob Marchand
January 2001: First Words
February 2001: First Words
March 2001: First Words
April 2001: First Words
May 2001: First Words
June 2001: First Words
July 2001: First Words
August/September 2001: First Words
October 2001: First Words
November 2001: First Words
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
October 2001: Building the VoiceXML Forum Certification Program
January 2001: What is XML?
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, where he chairs the Conformance Committee, and the W3C Voice Browser Working Group, where he serves as one of the editors of VoiceXML 2.0. He currently works for Nuance Communications. Ken 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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