Insight Quest, Inc.   Leadership & Business Experience  Overview

• Bill incorporated Insight Quest, Inc. (IQ) in December 1998. • Bill is President and CTO of Insight Quest, Inc. • IQ conducts Research and Development on Neuroscience-Inspired Innovations, Renewable Energy and Software Development (Teamwork-Related). • Keywords: R&D, Neuroscience-Inspired, Leader, Connectionist, Neural networks, Fiscal Responsibility, Teams,  Groupware, Team Building, Patents, Insight, Clean Green, Renewable Energy, Presentations, and Demonstrations.

Significance of this Accomplishment

• Profitable business from contracting with Fortune 100 company.    (Contract was for R&D on state-of-the-art machine learning based on PSIQ). •  25 original innovations documented. •  5 patents filed (1 patent issued to date).   •  2 Registered Trademarks •  7 Diverse Prototypes designed and built

Skills Transferable to Your Projects:

Leadership / Management • Bill founded, led and managed Insight Quest for eight years. Theory / R&D       • Renewable Energy:               • DynaCap    (A breakthrough in renewable energy generation and storage).               • "Solar V."   (A proposed de facto standard for interconnecting photovoltaic "segments").       • Groupware:               • PollQuick®  (Stand-alone hardware real-time polling system with Internet-based extensions).               • OmniPointer™ and OmniTimer™  (Windows applications that dynamically display two-digits of any                  data in the mouse pointer on nearly all Windows applications.           • Neural / Connectionist Networks:               • Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)  -Batch -Online -TreeSOM -CASOM -LISSOM               • Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ)               • Backpropagation (BP)  -Conjugate Gradient  -Momentum  -Bagging  -Through Time  -By Perturbation                • Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART)  -1  -2   -2A -3   -etc.               • Hopfield Neural Network (HOP)               • Boltzman machine  (BZM)               • Radial Basis Functions (RBF)               • Bidirectional Associative Memory (BAM)  -Discrete  -Continuous               • Support Vector Machines (SVM)               • Time Delay Neural Networks (TDNN)  -NetTalk               • Temporal Difference Learning (TD)  -TD-Gammon               • Q-learning (QL)               • Blind Source Separation (BSS)               • Independent Component Analysis (ICA)               • Growing Neural Gas (Gas), (GNG)               • Spiking Neural Networks (SNN)               • Bayesian Belief Network (BBN)               • Echo State Network (ESN)               • Liquid State Network (LSN)               • Predictive Sequences for Intelligence Quest (PSIQ)         • Fuzzy Logic               • (with various definitions for conjunctions)                        • Hidden Markov Models (HMM)               • Non-hierarchical               • Hierarchical               Software • Bill created IQ's in-house PSIQ simulator (over 8000 lines of C++) , and he ran 1000's of simulations such as:               • Waveform Recognition and synthesis               • Handwriting Recognition and synthesis               • Music Recognition and synthesis • C++, C, PHP, and JavaScript code for three different web sites. • Assembly language for two microcomputer systems. • Over 5000 lines of C++ in PollQuick®.     Hardware • Bill designed, built and tested 7 different physical prototypes, including two different microcomputer-based real-time systems , PC Boards, Enclosures, IR links, Displays, Energy Converters, "key-Ribbons", and innovative "Eddy current" input devices.  In addition, Bill designed and fabricated thermoformed molds, and dozens of metal and resin fabrication fixtures for various prototypes.

Patents

Issued Patent   (6, 964, 372     Issued   11-15-2005) Current Owner: Insight Quest, Inc. Licensing availability: (Yes). Contact Info:wp@insightq.com (480) 753-5375 Filed Patents:  5  (Most are still patent pending).

Future Opportunities

By pushing beyond the current state-of-the-art, there are these opportunities: • IQ has focused primarily on realistic principles from neuroscience and clean renewable energy. • The market for clean renewable energy generation and storage is likely to be on the order of a trillion dollars. DynaCap has the potential to be one of the primary winning solutions. • Today, those realistic principles are paying off: There is currently a resurgence in "neural networks" such as those described in the recent book On Intelligence : (Hierarchical, Spatiotemporal, Predictive, and Neocortex-like).   • Future Opportunities in this cognitive computing field are nicely summarized by this quote:       “If you invent a breakthrough in        artificial intelligence, so machines can        learn, that is worth 10 Microsofts.”  - Bill Gates, New York Times, 1/03/2004

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