About
January 17th, 2007
Dr. Manuel Aparicio is the cofounder and CEO of Saffron Technology, the innovation leader in entity (and predictive) analytics. He leads Saffron’s overall corporate vision and strategy for this disruptive technology, especially for national security in the US and allied countries. He is also growing the company to address similar critical problems in the healthcare industry. Before founding Saffron, he was Chief Scientist of the IBM Knowledge Management and Intelligent Agent Center, coordinating IBM worldwide assets across all research and development labs, also working with advanced customers across several industries such as telecommunications and manufacturing, including agent applications within automotive and ship building consortia. He has over twenty years of experience in machine learning and over ten years of experience in the commercialization and industrial development of intelligent agents, including IBM’s first commercial rules-based agent in 1993 and the world’s first commercial agent-based associative memory in 1997. He served on the boards of international organizations such as The Agent Society and The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, in which he helped reinvigorate North America’s defense and commercial activity and established the standard now used by several defense and commercial products. He holds several patents in neural networks and knowledge management for both IBM and Saffron and has written several papers on these topics, including editorship of Neural Networks for Knowledge Representation and Inference. Recent publications include “Learning by Collaborative and Individual-based Recommendation Agents” in the Journal of Consumer Psychology and “Concepts and Practice of Personalization” in The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing. Interviews and positive reviews of his work have appeared in Infoworld, PC IA, New York Times Magazine, PC Week, AI Expert, Contemporary Psychology, Seybold and Butler Group industry reports, Defense News, AMR Research, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He received his doctorate in experimental psychology from the U. of South Florida, specializing in truer, biologically-based neuro-computing, now becoming a new industry for “real intelligence” and the future of data analysis.
