Tim Lewis

Principle Investor, Co-Founder
tlewis@monrai.com
Mr. Lewis provides the company with over 25 years of extensive technical background and business leadership. Lewis has successfully founded several business ventures, including T.A. Lewis & Associates, a nationally recognized firm with an exhaustive roster of both national and international clients, which include IBM Global Services, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, NovantHealth, and Southern Company. An award-winning champion of the technology and business communities, Lewis is an often requested speaker and a frequent commentator for the national broadcast and print media. Additionally, Lewis sits on numerous business, educational and civic boards. He was also selected as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.

Lewis holds a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Sherman Monroe

President, CEO, Co-Founder
smonroe@monrai.com
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An entrepreneur and student of artificial intelligence and linguistic theory, Monroe provides the creative and technical guidance for our leading technologies. He has years of experience in commercial software development, and currently has patents pending for several of our core natural language analysis algorithms. Monroe has contributed to the formation of several widely-used open standards for artificial intelligence, including the Artificial Intelligence Mark-up Language, a protocol for developing conversational agents that has been adopted for commercial use by such industry-leading companies as AOL and Warner Bros. Monroe has an extensive background in the areas of computational linguistics, speech processing, text retrieval, and data mining.

Monroe is a Birmingham native educated at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

“I think the ultimate bar for machine intelligence has been set by our visions of Andrew Martin, C-3PO, and the Hal 9000. Whereas once, the barriers to such advances were considered to high to justify substantial commercial interest, today, real-world demands are finally beginning to catch up with the dreams of science-fiction. This has led to a “revitalization” of the field of artificial intelligence. But the trend towards intelligent machines is actually a continuation of the more general computing revolution. It’s important to point out that computing itself is really still in its infancy, compared to similar technology of comparable importance and impact. One of the ultimate goals of computing is to reduce the effort requirements for performing daily tasks. Advancing the intelligence that applications can possess and apply, is a natural step in realizing that goal.”

– from his presentation “Development of a Dialog Database” for the BotShow 2001 Conference in Paris, France