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John Wissinger

John Wissinger

John is Blackbird’s CSIO and works to strengthen the company’s technology advantage and market position by nurturing a vigorous innovation pipeline, including creating new AI products and services, executing strategic projects with partners, and building a strong IP portfolio. John has over 25 years of experience in engineering management with high-tech enterprises, spanning hardware, software, and algorithmically-intensive data products. He has expertise in AI, machine learning, computer vision, probabilistic modeling, and optimization and has led numerous R&D programs for DARPA and the US Military Services. Most recently, he founded a Boston-based venture, Prism Informatix, developing software systems that embody distributed artificial intelligence designed to learn from dispersed data and self-organize into a virtual network system to make predictions. Dr. Wissinger received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Rice University and his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT.

How Narrative Feed Turns Social Media Chaos Into Actionable Intelligence

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