Biographical sketches of authors
Douglas B. Koen
iPhrase, 101 Rogers St., Suite 201, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1049 (electronic mail: dbkoen@iphrase.com).
Mr. Koen is currently a senior software engineer at iPhrase, a company that builds products to add language interfaces to electronic commerce Web sites. He received the B.S. degree from MIT in 1995 and the M.S. degree from the MIT Media Laboratory in 2000.
Walter Bender
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: walter@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Bender is a senior scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and principal investigator of the laboratory's News in the Future consortium. He received the B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1977 and joined the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1978. He received the M.S. degree from MIT in 1980. Mr. Bender is a founding member of the Media Laboratory.
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