Sherman Monroe

Current

Chairman at Monrai Technologies

Past

President & CEO at overdogg.com
Director at Studio By The Tracks
Director at TechBirmingham

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Education

Morehouse College
Alabama School of Fine Arts

Recommended

3 people have recommended Sherman

Connections

36 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Sherman Monroe’s Summary

An entrepreneur and student of artificial intelligence and linguistic theory, Monroe provides the creative and technical guidance for our leading technologies. He is the author of the Cypher Transcoder, and has years of experience in commercial software development, and has made innovations in several natural language analysis algorithms. Monroe has contributed to the formation of several widely-used open standards for artificial intelligence, including the Artificial Intelligence Mark-up Language, a protocol for developing conversational agents that has been adopted for commercial use by such industry-leading companies as AOL and Warner Bros. Monroe has an extensive background in the areas of computational linguistics, speech processing, text retrieval, and data mining.

Sherman Monroe’s Specialties:

artificial intelligence,semantic web,RFID,natural language processing,computational linguistics,Java/J2EE,OO languages,data mining

Sherman Monroe’s Experience

Chairman

Monrai Technologies

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)

Monrai delivers software solutions that address the critical requirements of commercial enterprise and government customers through the ability to uncover and speed response to important events might otherwise go undetected and unresolved.
President & CEO

overdogg.com

(Internet industry)

October 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 11 months)

overdogg is an online community centered around user-sponsored competitions. overdogg pioneers the online buyer’s market by developing a Web-based community in which buyers and providers meet in an efficient and entertaining competition-style format to fill personal and business needs. Whether it’s a homeowner needing a tree removed from their yard, the mother needing ideas and planners for her daughter’s wedding, a 13-year-old boy searching for a lost puppy, a police investigator trying to solve a crime, an entrepreneur posting a reward for the market data he needs, or a bachelor needing a date for his upcoming class reunion, anyone can stage an ad-hoc competition to enlist our millions of users across the web to help them obtain what it is they desire.
Director

Studio By The Tracks

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Program Development industry)

January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Studio By The Tracks is a small non-profit agency which every week provides safe harbor for adults with autism, Asperger's or mental illness who come here to make art. We also provide an arena for dozens of at-risk children who come to the Studio to sculpt, paint, draw, deconstruct, assemble, write and act.
Director

TechBirmingham

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)

TechBirmingham is a not-for-profit entity focused on growing the technology economy in our immediate region, and was formed by the community's leadership to lead, support, and coordinate the start-up, attraction, growth, retention, and expansion of technology-based businesses, investments, and jobs.