Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Laboratory 1990-01-01 - 1996-01-01Work Experience
Reykjavik University
Current
Reykjavik University
Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines
Current
Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines
Radar Networks
2003-02-01 - 2004-07-01
Radar Networks
Columbia University
2002-08-01 - 2002-12-01
Columbia University
Soliloquy
1999-09-01 - 2001-03-01
Soliloquy
the LEGO Group
1996-01-01 - 1999-01-01
the LEGO Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990-01-01 - 1996-01-01
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Skills
Summary
My expertise and interests lie in several areas of cognition - artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, humanoid robots and natural communication. I like challenges. I have founded and run start-ups (Radar Networks, CMLabs), consulted for industry (British Telecom, OZ Interactive, NASA), been a VP Engineering and a CTO (Soliloquy, Lucid Ventures) and of course everybody's favorite "mad scientist in lab" (MIT, Columbia U, U Iceland, Reykjavik U). In 2005 I co-founded an A.I. research lab at RU and in 2009 I founded the only non-profit AI research institute in Reykjavik, the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (www.iiim.is). Specialties: Team Leadership, start-ups, multi-cultural & multi-disciplinary. Software design, development & deployment. Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive robotics, computational models of communication, planning, intelligent computer graphics, advanced human interfaces.