FUTURE AI - Key Persons
As Founder and CEO since incorporating in 2022, Charles Simon has seen a period of extraordinary growth for Artificial Intelligence and with it the enormous potential for the underlying software technology of Future AI's revolutionary algorithms that "ADD Common Sense to AI". Future AI has been selected for AI Time Journal's list of "Top Artificial Intelligence Companies to Watch in 2023". Located next to MIT in Cambridge and a MIT CSAIL Alliance Member, Future AI has the advantage of being near top science and technology influences as well as the opportunity for easy expansion.
Charles, a Silicon Valley and venture-backed entrepreneur, founded Vectron Graphics, one of the world's first CAD computing companies, and as a Microsoft alum was a Co-founder of Gift Certificates.com, successfully sold to AOL, a leader in online services. He has sold Commercial CAD Technology to the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Harris Corp (now L3 Harris Technologies, defense contractor), NASA Ames Laboratory, and McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). Also, he is noted for two AI systems and three generations of CAD.
His broad management, startup, and combined development experience in neurological test equipment, CPUs, and artificial intelligence software makes him a uniquely qualified expert. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical engineering, attended the Stanford University Business School AEA, along with, membership in several High-IQ Societies and the Forbes Technology Council.
He is the author of numerous published science books, articles, papers, and technical presentations. He received a 5-Star and a Notable Book Award for "Will Computers Revolt" and received a Microsoft Fellow Award Nomination. Also, he has been written about in Newsweek and other leading media.
As an extreme sailor, in 2017 he was the Captain of one of only 15 sailboats in the world (as recorded by the University of Cambridge, UK, Scott Polar Research Institute), to Circumnavigate the North American Continent via the Arctic Northwest Passage Transit. Satellite-mapping was used to survey the route and a new channel was added in the Arctic Tasmania Islands, now named after Charles. He is also one of the few to additionally complete a sailing World Circumnavigation.
Heather Read is a Professor in the Departments of Psychological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering and director of the "Brain Computer Interface" group. Dr. Read, completed a PhD in neuropharmacology from Loyola University Medical School. Today Dr. Read's laboratory at University of Connecticut develops large-scale high-resolution brain mapping and analysis techniques to determine brain mechanisms for visual and audio perception.
Matthew Pugh began working with FutureAI in 2020 after a total of more than 20 years of public relations and communications experience, primarily in the technology space. He has been instrumental in growing technology firms particularly among international and global companies.
He has also served as the Director of Communications for two high-growth technology firms where he devised and executed comprehensive public relations, analyst relations, and social media programs. He also worked at Senior Public Relations at a leading cybersecurity company, where he provided strategic PR support for corporate and marketing initiatives, industry trade shows, product launches, and employee communications. He also spent several years at a national public relations firm, designing communications and media relations plans for clients in the technology, higher education, commercial real estate, and legal industries, and began his PR career working for a faith-based disaster relief and development organization.
Pugh has earned several industry awards including, a MDDC Press Association award for feature writing, several PR World Awards for his work in the technology sector, and was named part of the "Marketing Team of the Year" for a high-growth international technology company. Pugh holds a B.S. in mass communications from Towson University.
Currently a Senior Technologist at Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Robbie has a demonstrated track record in research using high performance computing for quantum systems and nuclear theory. Robbie holds a PhD in Physics from Washington State University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Utah.