BEINGMETA - Key Persons
Cris Dolan has spent close to two decades building and bringing to market advanced technology businesses in the areas of Internet, eCommerce, interactive television, executive information systems, communications and network management technologies. As a founder and Division President of OneMain.com, Cris conceived and launched the cornerstone of OneMain, the Geographic Communities which she made profitably in only five months. She has over a decade of sales and strategic business alliance development experience. Cris began her career at IBM in various sales and marketing roles selling advanced technology solutions to the Communications, Finance and Securities sectors. While studying for her master of science degree at the MIT Media Lab, Cris was a research assistant in the News in the Future research consortium where she worked on the early prototypes for interactive information, entertainment and sports. She also holds a master of computer science engineering, and a bachelor of electrical engineering with a minor in business. Cris has served on Microsoft's Internet Advisory Board and the Netscape Internet Publishing Advisory Board. She has also served within the New York Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).
serves as beingmeta's metadata evangelist and product manager. Prior to joining beingmeta, David founded Innovation Catalyst Partners, a consulting firm helping clients bridge the chasm between new technology and the marketplace. Prior to Innovation Catalyst he was Design Lead at the Viant Innovation Center, developing prototypes and exploring the opportunities of network-enabled customer experiences for clients including Coca-Cola, Diageo, and Universal Music. David also served as Viant's liaison to the MIT Media Laboratory. Prior to Viant he worked at Cineric, a leading film post-production and restoration firm in New York. David has played many roles over the years: management consultant, director of marketing, experience designer, software developer, cinematographer, technology strategist, project manager, and hypermedia specialist. He has held these positions at companies ranging from startups to fortune 500 firms including Apple Computer. David holds a B.S. in Computer & Cognitive Sciences and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Florida and earned his M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.
Dr. Kenneth Haase [vitae] founded beingmeta in 2001 to transform modern computing to reflect human meanings and purposes. With extensive experience in global research and development, Dr. Haase seeded beingmeta with a decade of research developments from his work at the MIT Media Laboratory.
founded beingmeta to bring to market his academic work on knowledge description and natural language processing. Dr. Haase comes to beingmeta from his position as an associate professor at the MIT Media Laboratory. During his career, which included earning his PhD in computer science (under Professors Marvin Minsky and Thomas Kuhn) from MIT, Dr. Haase has consulted in IT, manufacturing, and finance sectors. Dr. Haase has lived and worked in Europe, gaining experience in the value of collaboration and cooperation across languages, cultures, and points of view. Most recently, Dr. Haase served as the acting director of Media Lab Europe, in Dublin, Ireland, where he was invited to strengthen and focus the lab's research activity. Dr. Haase has also had involvement with some XML standardization efforts and was particularly responsible for the addition of conceptual markup to the NITF (News Industry Text Format) wire standard.
serves on beingmeta's board of advisors, where she provides both scientific and technical direction to the company. Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and has extensive entrepreneurial experience. Her company "Agents, Inc.," creator of the Firefly product, was acquired by Microsoft and she currently serves on the board of numerous ventures. Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She has received several awards: Newsweek magazine named her one of the "100 Americans to watch for" in the year 2000; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite, the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title "Global Leader for Tomorrow"; Ars Electronica awarded her the 1995 World Wide Web category prize; and in 2000 she was recognized with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council.
Job Titles:
- President and CEO of Cephos Corporation
is on beingmeta's board of directors and plays an active role in directing the company's strategy. Steve is currently President and CEO of Cephos Corporation, a Boston-area startup that is commercializing brain imaging techniques for use in the legal community. With over 25 years of experience in Information Technology, Steve has held key roles in several successful startups. As founder and president of Vireo Software, he guided the company from inception until it was acquired by Compuware Corporation in 1998. Subsequently, Steve served as both Chief Operating Officer and VP of Engineering at Lumigent Technologies, a company providing database auditing tools for security and privacy compliance. Prior to his entrepreneurial work, Steve conducted research into operating systems and networks at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. Steve received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Executive Director of Sugar Labs
Walter Bender is executive director of Sugar Labs and senior research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. Bender was president of One Laptop per Child, where he developed and deployed technologies that helped revolutionize how the world's children engage in learning. He is former executive director of the Media Laboratory, as well as the founding director of the Electronic Publishing group in the Lab. While at the Lab in 1992, Bender founded the News in the Future consortium and has participated in much of the pioneering research in the field of electronic publishing and personalized interactive multimedia. He has worked closely with pioneers in the field of technology and learning such as Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Kay for 30+ years. Bender has a BA from Harvard University and an MS from MIT. He is a member of the GNOME Technical Advisory Board and has a visiting faculty appointment at the University of Tampere in Finland.