William Meisel

William “Bill” Meisel, PhD, is president of TMA Associates, a speech-industry consulting firm (www.tmaa.com). Meisel organizes AVIOS conferences including Conversation Interaction and Bots and Assistants. He is author of the recent book, Computer Intelligence, and an earlier book, The Software Society. Meisel began his career as a professor of EE and CS at USC. He wrote an early technical book on machine learning, Computer-Oriented Approaches to Pattern Recognition. In the 1980s, he founded and ran a speech recognition technology company, Speech Systems Inc., for a decade, after managing the Computer Science Division of a defense firm.