TEDxEastHampton - Paul Roossin on the Neurology of Dreams

Paul Roossin brings a broad background in science, technology, and entrepreneurship to Nanotronics Imaging. Paul trained as a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University where he performed pioneering investigations into the neural substrates of memory consolidation and recall. Seduced by computer technology, he then spent the next fifteen years at IBM's Research Division, where he and his team created the world's most accurate machine translation system, for translating French texts into English. At IBM he also produced the first commercial continuous speech, large vocabulary speech recognition system, which had an accuracy rate of over 99%. As an entrepreneur, he and two friends founded ConsumerSearch.com, a shopping meta-review website; it grew to be one of the largest shopping sites on the web and was sold to The New York Times in 2007.

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