MEMBER
Jim Spohrer
MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank
FOCUS
Trusted AI and Trusted Services
WORK
Member Board of Directors of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)
CONTACT
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SUMMARY
Jim Spohrer directs IBM’s open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts. Previously at IBM, he led Global University Programs, co-founded Almaden Service Research, and was CTO of Venture Capital Group.
Jim is an ISSIP BOD Member, Secretary /Treasurer (acting), ISSIP Ambassador to the Association of Computer Machinery, ACM, and ISSIP Ambassador to IBM Almaden Service Research.
After his MIT BS in Physics, he developed speech recognition systems at Verbex, an Exxon company, before receiving his Yale Ph.D. in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence.
In the 1990s, he attained Apple Computers’ Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technology title for next-generation learning platforms. With over ninety publications and nine patents, he won the Gummesson Service Research award, Vargo and Lusch Service-Dominant Logic award, Daniel Berg Service Systems award, and the PICMET Fellow for advancing service science.
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