TEDxSoMa

We are excited to add another new speaker, Damon Horowitz of Aardvark. Below is Damon’s bio:

Damon Horowitz is a leading thinker at the intersection of technology and the humanities.

Horowitz is co-founder and CTO of Aardvark, the popular social search engine, where he oversees product development and research strategy.  Prior to Aardvark, Horowitz built several companies around applications of intelligent language processing. He co-founded Perspecta (acquired by Excite), was lead architect for Novation Biosciences (acquired by Agilent), and co-founded NewsDB (now Daylife).

Horowitz teaches courses in computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy at many institutions, including Stanford, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and San Quentin.  He has spoken at conferences ranging from Web2.0 to AAAI, and his work has been featured in media ranging from the New York Times to Discovery Channel to TechCrunch.

Horowitz earned a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia, a M.S. from the MIT Media Lab, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Linguistics from Stanford.