Manuel Aparicio, PhD

Saffron Technology
1600 Perimeter Park Drive
Suite 150
Morrisville, NC
USA 27560
Email: maparicio@saffrontech.com

Biographical Sketch:
1999 - Present. Co-founder and CEO of Saffron Technology. 1987 - 1999. IBM Engineer, culminating as the Chief Scientist of the IBM Knowledge Management & Intelligent Agent Center. 1997 - 1999. Board of Directors for The Agent Society, and international consortium, and the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, an international standards body. Holds several patents for memory-based technology, and has published numerous papers, journal articles, and book chapters. Various public speaking invitations. Co-edited the book, Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference (1994). Over 20 years of experience in machine learning and 10 years experience in the commercialization and industrial development of intelligent agents. Almost 20 years as adjunct professor and corporate liason to various universities including U. Texas at Dallas (Computer Science), U. of North Texas (Computer Science), North Carolina State U. (Computer Science), Duke U. (Fuqua School of Business), and U. North Carolina (Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise).