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 |  Bill Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur. He led business or technical development in four startups before founding 0nebox.com,a company that was among the first to provide e-mail, voice mail and fax access in a single mailbox over a conventional phone. Nguyen sold Onebox for $850 million in 2000, but not before hearing from wireless subscribers that they lacked similar data retrieval services. His solution? Seven Networks. Software from the Redwood City, CA, company lets customers of a wireless carrier access e-mail, voice mail and other Internet services simply by calling the carrier. Unlike subscribers to other wireless services. Seven customers don't have to install extra hardware or software. So far,Cingular, Sprint PCS and Britain's mm02 have implemented Seven's innovation,and Nguyen has secured $64 million in venture funding. His company has also partnered with Microsoft to create software that allows a company's employees to wirelessly tap into its intranet. How does Nguyen do it all? For one thing, he is notorious for sleeping only three hours a day.
| | NGUYEN | | BILL | | AGE 30 | | TELECOMMUNICATIONS | | SEVEN NETWORKS |
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| | |  Chahab Nastar has always had a passion for patterns, whether he was tracking the popularity of his rock band Busy Being Born or designing software to distinguish unhealthy heart motions, which he did as a researcher at the University of Paris. Now he's pouring that passion into helping computers understand everyday objects and scenes—a chal-lenge that's still "extremely difficult, if not impossible, for machines,"he says.Show a picture of your beach vacation to today's average image-recognition program,and it can find similar beach scenes. But it can't tell
which beach is pictured or who is sunbathing.To move to that level, Nastar's
Paris-based startup, LookThatUp—now LTU Technologies—has enhanced image-recog-nition techniques with artificial-intelligence-based learning algorithms. Now, the more images of, say, cars and animals LTU's system memorizes, the more quickly it can classify a Volkswagen or zebra.The system's industry-leading recognition speed, a mere 200 milliseconds per image, has helped LTU sell
software licenses to a dozen U.S.and European companies.
| | NASTAR | | CHAHAB | | AGE 33 | | SOFTWARE | | LTUTECHNOLOGIES |
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Source From: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
June 2002
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