Barney Pell Biography

Barney Pell Ph.D. is a leading entrepreneur investor and advisor in AI and deep technology companies.
He is a Founding Fellow in the Creative Destruction Lab's Machine Learning Track in which he mentors hundreds of AI startups each year; Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Figure 8 the leading Human-in-the-Loop AI platform; Board Director for Ecaotion an AI and Robotics startup for greenhouse agriculture; and Founder of Moon Express a startup company building a lunar lander to open up Deep Space for commercial development.
He was Founder and CEO of Powerset a pioneering startup in natural-language search that was acquired by Microsoft where he then served as Strategist of Bing lead for Bing’s local and mobile search team leader of Microsoft’s long-range plan for semantics and knowledge and initiated the projects that became Satori Microsoft's knowledge graph and Cortana Microsoft’s conversational assistant. He has worked in R&D at NASA where he helped put the first AI system in deep space and at SRI Stanford and at Cambridge University where his Ph.D. research pioneered the field of general game playing in AI.

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