Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras, acquired for $8 billion. Current Board positions include Synthetic Genomics, IMMI, and ZARS. Previously, he was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software. As a Consultant with Bain & Company, he developed executive marketing, sales, engineering and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the software, networking and semiconductor industries.
Steve Jurvetson has participated in panel discussions at the Foresight Vision Weekend held by the Foresight Nanotech Institute and the Singularity Summit at Stanford hosted by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. In September of 2007 he presented a talk at the Singularity Summit in San Francisco called Dichotomy of Designed and Evolutionary Paths to AI Futures. There he raised the issue of alternative approaches to artificial intelligence research, where some technologists advocate design and others prefer evolutionary search algorithms. Still others would selectively conflate the two, hoping to incorporate the best of both paradigms while avoiding their limitations. But while both processes are powerful, they are very different, and the speaker argued that they present divergent paths to designing robust artificial intelligence.
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Singularity Summit at Stanford Panel Discussion 2
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2007 Singularity Summit,
Dichotomy of Designed and Evolutionary Paths to AI Futures
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2007 Singularity Summit,
Dichotomy of Designed and Evolutionary Paths to AI Futures
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08.28.07
ZDNet podcast, hosted by Dan Farber
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9.09.07
2007 Singularity Summit
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