Blaise Thomson

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Co-founder and ex-CEO of Vocal IQ plc

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Blaise Thomson - the future of human-machine conversation

Published on Jun 29, 2015

Blaise Thomson speaking at Playfair Capital's Machine Intelligence 2015 in London.

Blaise is co-founder and CEO of VocalIQ, the world’s first self-learning dialogue API, putting real, natural conversation between people and their devices. Before co-founding VocalIQ, Blaise spent several years researching new approaches to building spoken dialogue systems; first as part of his Ph.D. and then as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Thomson has received multiple awards from the IEEE and the Journal of Computer Speech and Language for his groundbreaking research into natural language processing and machine learning algorithm design. He received a BSc(Hons), Pure Mathematics, 1st, from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. Outside of work, he enjoys playing guitar and dancing.