William Mark (academic)

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William Mark
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Scientific career
Institutions 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]

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Early life and education

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]

Career

Mark was a co-founder of the company Savoir, which developed software tools for flexible manufacturing. [1] Prior to his roles in industry, he held research positions at the General Motors Research Laboratories as well as the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. [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]

In 2018, he was nominated by former US Department of Defense Secretary James Mattis to be a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). The commission filed its final report in October 2021. [6]

Awards and memberships

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; [7] and is currently a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology. [8]

Mark was a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that was established in 2018 and issued its final report in March 2021. [9] [10]

He has been a member of the Board at Kasisto since 2014, which is a spin off of SRI International. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "William Mark". SRI International . Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Former National Semiconductor Director, William Mark, Joins SRI As Vice President Of Information And Computing Sciences" (Press release). SRI International. 1998-06-01. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Mark, William; Kolodner, Janet (October 1992). "Guest Editor's Introduction". IEEE Intelligent Systems . 7 (5): 5–6. doi:10.1109/MIS.1992.10040.
  4. ↑ International, S. R. I. (2021-09-08). "William Mark". SRI. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  5. ↑ "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes". SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center . Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  6. ↑ "Commissioners - NSCAI Final Report". reports.nscai.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
  7. ↑ "Industrial Advisory Board". UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  8. ↑ "Industrial Advisory Board". Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  9. ↑ Shead, Sam (2021-03-02). "U.S. is 'not prepared to defend or compete in the A.I. era,' says expert group chaired by Eric Schmidt". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
  10. ↑ Shead, Sam. "Ex-Google CEO To Lead US Government AI Advisory Group". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
  11. ↑ "Kasisto announces Jeffrey Seltzer and William Mark to the Board after having secured $2.25M in seed funding". talent4boards.com. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
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