IPCC 2007 Speakers

Legendary Ray Kurzweil is a confirmed speaker for the Seattle conference on October 1, 2007. From his biography: "Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition."

Chris Linnett has launched some of the Web’s most popular sites—including the MSN homepage and Microsoft Office Online. With 15 years of experience in product development and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, he brings knowledge and practice to content, communication, and the other components involved in building online businesses and experiences. During 12 years at Microsoft he managed numerous consumer and information-worker products. He consulted on redevelopments of ONE.org and WA.gov, and later led Cranium’s online sales and marketing. Currently Director of Open List at Marchex, he is creating a local-search service and leveraging that to create targeted consumer destinations at more than 100,000 web sites. A graduate of Pomona College, he holds a Master’s degree from Tulane University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.