William Tunstall-Pedoe

Current

CEO and Founder at True Knowledge Ltd
Founder at Genius 2000 Ltd

Past

Computer Officer at Isaac Newton Institute
Software Engineer at The Fourth Dimension
Software Engineer at IOTA Software

Software Engineer at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Support Specialist at Acorn Computers
Software Engineer at XOB
Software Engineer at University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at GEC Hirst Research Centre
Researcher at GEC Hirst Research Centre

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Education

University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge
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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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William Tunstall-Pedoe’s Summary

- Track record of solving previously-unsolved problems in Artificial Intelligence.
- 20+ years' of high-tech business experience.
- 20+ years' of commercial software development experience.
- Exceptional academic achievements.

William Tunstall-Pedoe’s Experience

CEO and Founder

True Knowledge Ltd

(Internet industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

True Knowledge is an early stage, venture backed business with an extremely exciting automatic question answering technology.

Its main product is a platform containing a knowledge base of machine understandable structured knowledge which can be used to answer natural language or computer questions on any topic using generalised inference.

The technology was invented by myself. I founded the business to further develop and commercialise the technology, raised grant and VC financing and have built the company to its current size.

More information is available on the company website.
Founder

Genius 2000 Ltd

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1998 — Present (11 years )

This company markets two highly innovative AI software applications relating to recreational wordpay to consumers over the internet which have been used by millions of people. Both products were developed by myself.
Computer Officer

Isaac Newton Institute

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

This was a part time position handling the IT requirements of the university department, developing their internal systems and providing technical support to the participant mathematicians. The highlight was witnessing Wiles announce his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem when I was there - an event which made the front page of almost every newspaper worldwide the next day.
Software Engineer

The Fourth Dimension

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1991 — 1992 (1 year )

I independently developed a commercial chess-playing package (Cyber Chess). This is still the definitive chess software for the Acorn/RISC OS platform.

The Fourth Dimension was the publisher that won the contract to publish the software after I had developed it.
Software Engineer

IOTA Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1991 — 1991 (less than a year)

IOTA Software was a software start-up formed by former Acorn employees. I was one of the earliest and developed a commercial tracing package (automatic conversion of bitmap to vector graphics) from commencement to publication in three months.
Software Engineer

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

(Educational Institution; Pharmaceuticals industry)

1990 — 1990 (less than a year)

I developed the systems used in a large drug study to validate the first statin cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Support Specialist

Acorn Computers

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1990 (less than a year)

I provided technical support to dealers, large educational customers and end users on all of Acorn's hardware and software products.
Software Engineer

XOB

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1983 — 1990 (7 years )

Whilst at High School I developed numerous commercial applications for the Acorn platform which I then licensed to this company for publication.
Software Engineer

University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology

(Educational Institution; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1988 — 1988 (less than a year)

In my late teens I was contracted by the University of Minnesota to indepedently do a feasibility study into the use of portable computers for various drug studies that were taking place there.
Artificial Intelligence Researcher

GEC Hirst Research Centre

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

1988 — 1988 (less than a year)

At the age of 18, I worked on a speech recognition project (getting computers to recognise/understand human speech). We took a feature based approach and my personal research was largely focussed on the analysis and recognition of fricatives.
Researcher

GEC Hirst Research Centre

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

1988 — 1988 (less than a year)

VLSI Process Architecture Research Laboratory. I worked on a research project using computers to simulate the manufacture of silicon devices in VLSI. This involved simulating dopant diffusion, the annealing processes etc. for various kinds of chips including radiation hard versions with insulator substrate for military use. I also wrote of suite of software which interfaced a French process simulator (TITAN) with GEC's device modelling software (MADMACS). Skills: FORTRAN, VMS, handling large quantities of source code written by large numbers of different people. Some solid state physics.

William Tunstall-Pedoe’s Education

University of Cambridge

MA , Computer Science , 1988 — 1991

First Class honours. Churchill College.

Activities and Societies:

Boat club, Squash, Young Entrepreneurs Society
University of Cambridge

1988 — 1991
University of Cambridge

computer science 1988 — 1991
University of Cambridge

BA , computer science , 1988 — 1991
University of Cambridge

BA , computer science , 1988 — 1991