Specialties: software development, machine learning, block chain, collective intelligence, data science, system architecture, big data, ethical systems, machine ethics, safe motivational systems, artificial general intelligence, argumentation systems, decision support systems

Mark Waser has over 35 years of experience in software systems design & development and artificial intelligence. He has developed systems ranging from an expert system shell and builder for CitiCorp’s FastFinance lease evaluation and approval system to a neural network evaluating thallium cardiac images of Air Force pilots for Wright-Patterson AFB to numerous natural language processing and information extraction programs to the Divi blockchain. Recently, he has been exploring the intersection of collective intelligence and block chain. Mr. Waser has an M.S.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Pennsylvania and has performed doctoral studies in Machine Learning & Human Decision Making at George Mason University. He is particularly interested in safe ethical architectures and motivational systems for intelligent machines (including humans).