Neil Jacobstein
Teknowledge
Biography
Neil Jacobstein is chairman and CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a 25-year old software company. He has served as a technical consultant on software research and development projects for NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army and Air Force, GM, Ford, Boeing, Applied Materials, and other agencies. In 1999, he co-chaired the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and chaired the 17th IAAI Conference in 2005. In 1999, he was selected as an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. Since 1992, he has served as chairman of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a not-for-profit research group focused on the long-term feasibility, embedded safeguards, and applications of molecular manufacturing. He was the leading co-author of the Foresight Guidelines for Responsible Nanotechnology Development. In 2006, he became a senior research fellow in the Digital Visions Program at Stanford University.