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Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of
Gemedy
and Managing Director of
Reified,
and has taught at
Harvard and
MIT.
He has received 128 major
distinctions,
authored 23 publications,
been granted 24 issued, pending, and provisional
patents,
and founded, managed, and advised 4 technology
companies
that were acquired for a combined value of over $600 million,
including two that became divisions of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and GTT Communications (NYSE: GTT).
In 1998 and 1999, respectively, he won the USA Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to earn a triple major, with bachelors in Physics, Electrical Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, and graduated first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering with a Marshall Scholarship. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Foundation's Doctoral Thesis Prize.
A thought leader in artificial intelligence, he is a contributing author of the
New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die, and the Amazon
#1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think.
A popular TED speaker,
his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200
press outlets worldwide,
including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired.
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