Ben is the primary intellectual force behind the Novamente AI system. Currently he is the CEO and Chief Scientist of Biomind LLC, a firm established to apply Novamente AI software in the bioinformatics domain. Previously he was the founder of Webmind Inc. and served that firm as CTO and Chairman from 1997-2001. He received his PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989, and following that he held several university faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology, in the US, New Zealand and Australia. He is author of numerous research papers and journalistic articles, a biography of Linus Pauling, and five scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences, including Chaotic Logic (Plenum Press, 1994), and Creating Internet Intelligence (Plenum Press, 2001).

Cassio is currently the President of Brazil-based software consulting firm Vettatech, as well as the CTO of Biomind LLC. In 1999-2001 he was the VP of AI Development of Webmind Inc. and the President of Webmind Brazil; in 2001 he managed the development of the RADARS product at the NY bioinformatics firm Proteometrics. Cassio holds a computer science degree from UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Together with Senna and Thiago, he shares the role of Chief Real AI Software Architect.

Senna, formerly the leader of the Webmind Core team within Webmind Inc., is our master of data structures and algorithms, holds an MS in computer science from UFMG in Belo Horizonte, and possesses years experience both in academic computer science projects and the software consulting business.

Thiago holds a BS in computer science from UFMG, and is currently pursuing graduate study in engineering. A member of the Webmind Inc. core team, in April 2001 he was the creator of the first few thousand lines of Novamente code.

Gui hol ds a BS in applied mathematics from UFMG and has pursued graduate work in pure mathematics. Formerly an intern at Webmind Inc., he is currently helping out with the Novamente probabilistic reasoning module.

Moshe has worked as a programmer for several start-ups. When the Internet boom ended he fled to academia, and obtained a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Beyond AI, Moshe’s interests include Cognitive Science, free software, and science fiction.

Tony Lofthouse has spent over 20 years working in the IT industry. Working in a variety of roles from systems development work through to senior management at Microsoft Europe. Tony was formally educated in Computer Science and Mathematics in the UK and has continued his education with remote learning. He is passionate about AGI and wants to help bring the singularity into being during his lifetime. Tony is currently based in the United Kingdom where he lives with his wife Ann and his two children Charlotte and Natasha.

Currently on the computer science faculty of Temple University, from 1998-2001 Pei was Webmind Inc.s Director of Research and the chief conceptual architect of Webmind's logical reasoning component. He is currently involved with the Real AI Institute on an advisory basis, a role to which he brings 15 years of experience in AI research, much of it focused on his Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System and associated practical and philosophical issues. He received his PhD under Douglas Hofstadter in the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program. Before joining Webmind Inc. in 1998 he designed and implemented AI systems for many different corporations, including Brightware and the Vanguard Group.

Stephan, former Deputy CTO of Webmind Inc., has had a diverse career spanning software engineering, Web design, virtual reality technology, multimedia, advertising, system administration and research in the AI and communications fields. Prior to joining Webmind Inc., he was a multimedia researcher at Bell Labs; and before that, at Studio Archetype, he created some of the first websites to use modern technologies such as Shockwave and Java. In 2001 he led the engineering efforts of Proteometrics, a New York bioinformatics firm