C. Raymond PerraultDirector

Ray Perrault leads SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center, which creates new technology in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, logic-based and probabilistic reasoning, advanced analytics, interactive planning, scheduling and task management, knowledge acquisition and user interaction design, with applications to bioinformatics, persistence surveillance, virtual personal assistants, and robotics. The AIC has a long history of licensing technology (most recently BioCyc, KARTO) and creating spinoffs (Siri, Trapit, Social Kinetics)
From 2002 to 2009 he was co-Principal Investigator of the CALO Project, a large, multi-institutional, DARPA-funded project whose objective was to build an intelligent office assistant that learns through interaction with its user and the world. The CALO project management team won the DARPA Award for Excellence by a Performer in 2007. Several technologies developed on that project have been transitioned to commercial and military applications.
Before coming to SRI in 1983, he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto which he left as Full Professor. With his students there, he created the first applications of planning, plan recognition, and speech act theory to problems in natural language discourse. He was a founding Principal of Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.
He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from McGill University and a Ph. D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.