Gary Hendrix

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Gary Grant Hendrix
Born (1948-05-14) May 14, 1948 (age 75)
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Texas
Known forFounder of Symantec
Scientific career
Institutions SRI International

Gary Grant Hendrix [1] [2] (born May 14, 1948 [2] [3] [4] ) is an American businessman who founded Symantec Corporation, an international corporation which produces computer software, particularly in the fields of information management and antivirus software.

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Education

Hendrix obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in May 1970 and then received his master's degree from the same institution in December 1970. Hendrix decided to study in the artificial intelligence field as Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a series of funding for six projects in natural language understanding in 1970. In January 1971, Hendrix enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Texas and was assigned Robert Simmons as his adviser. [5] He completed his dissertation in 1975. [1] [6]

Career

While at the University of Texas, Hendrix published several papers on robotics and planning, which several people from SRI International read. This led to an invitation for him to work at SRI, which he accepted and subsequently moved to Menlo Park, California. After several years at SRI, he left with fifteen SRI employees to form Machine Intelligence Corporation, which ultimately failed. [5]

Afterward, Hendrix founded Symantec Corporation in 1982 with the help of a National Science Foundation grant. The company was originally focused on artificial intelligence-related projects, and Hendrix hired several Stanford University natural language processing researchers as the company's first employees. [7] To finance the company, Hendrix went to an American Electronics Association financial conference in Monterey, California in May 1983. After demonstrating their product on an early Apple computer, businesses became interested in obtaining their product. Hendrix left the company in 1991 and moved to Dripping Springs, Texas. [5] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mathematical Genealogy Project". Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  2. 1 2 "Nuwber: Gary G Hendrix". nuwber.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  3. ↑ "MeasuringU: Were most Software Millionaires born around 1955?". measuringu.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  4. ↑ Nilsson, Nils J. (2009-10-30). The Quest for Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-139-64282-8.
  5. 1 2 3 Spicer, Dag (2004-11-19). "Oral History of Gary Hendrix" (PDF). Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  6. ↑ "The UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab: History". University of Texas at Austin Computational Linguistics. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  7. ↑ International Directory of Company Histories. Vol. 10. St. James Press. 1995.
  8. ↑ "Eugenia Griffith Hendrix". Legacy.com . 28 May 2010. Retrieved 25 Feb 2020.
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