| William Mark | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Work Institution: | SRI International |
William S. "Bill" Mark is a vice president at SRI International, where he has been in charge of their Information and Computing Sciences Division since 1998.[1]
Mark received a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1973, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1976, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] [3]
Mark was a co-founder of the company Savoir, which developed software tools for flexible manufacturing.[1] [4] Mark then worked at Lockheed Martin's Palo Alto Research Labs.[2] [3] He later headed the System Technology Group at National Semiconductor, which focused on design and implementation of silicon-based systems, until 1998.[1] [2]
Mark joined SRI International in 1998.[1] He was a principal investigator of the CALO project that eventually led to the development of Siri and related technologies.[5]
Mark has served on DARPA's Information, Science and Technology Committee and the editorial board of IEEE Computer.[2] [3]
Mark is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for Computational Linguistics and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[3] He was a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department;[6] and is currently a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology.[7]