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Catherine Havasi

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Smart Money Rating: 90 out of 100

ADVISOR, AI Capital

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Dr. Havasi has co-founded and led multiple AI-focused entities, including Luminoso Technologies, where she served as CEO for seven years. Catherine is also a speaker and thought leader in artificial intelligence. In recent years, she has been named by Fast Company as one of the ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’ as well as one of Boston Business Journal’s ’40 Under 40.” In 1999, Havasi became involved in Open Mind Common Sense as cofounder with Marvin Minsky and Push Singh, also serving as its director. Havasi then led a team at MIT Media Lab to create ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database. In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company to build on the work of ConceptNet. She is co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on AI and language.

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EDUCATION: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis UniversitySource (opens in a new tab)

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