President
Denny Brown has more
than 30 years experience with software technology in commercial
and academic environments.
He was one of the founders
of Coherent Thought, Inc., a vendor of application-specific expert-system
tools. At Coherent Thought, he was responsible for professional
services including documentation and training development, hotline
telephone support, consulting, and application-development assistance.
Denny was also one of
the first employees of Teknowledge, Inc., a pioneer company in the
development of commercial expert-system technology. As Vice President
of Knowledge Engineering at Teknowledge, he managed an application-development
group that built custom expert systems under contract. The group
grew from 13 to 50 people in two years and was responsible for producing
many of the earliest examples of successful, commercial expert systems.
Customers included General Motors, Procter and Gamble, Motorola,
and MONY. As Vice President of Education and Training at Teknowledge,
Denny created the first commercially available training programs
for expert-system technology. He was also responsible for developing
documentation for the initial versions of Teknowledge's software
products.
Before Teknowledge, Denny
was Associate Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Stanford
University. He was responsible for the teaching programs, both graduate
and undergraduate, delivered by the department. He developed and
taught a variety of introductory programming courses.
In addition to his role
as President of Expert Support, Denny sometimes gets to do billable
work for customers. He does management consulting and training,
group facilitation, and other "soft skills" development.
He has helped some of our start-up customers with funding proposals,
organizational development, and other early stage activities.
Denny's outside interests
include playing baseball in an over-35
hardball league. He manages the Antiques,
a team of really old guys, mostly 48 or older.
He is the proud grandfather
of Faith
Alyssandra Brown Route.
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