Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky has twenty years of experience in product development in high-technology industries. Dr. Yudkowsky is president of Disaggregate Corporation , a consulting company that helps companies create, understand, and apply revolutionary technology. He is author of "The Pebble and the Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions" (Berrett-Koehler, 2005). He specializes in consulting and education for a particular high-tech industry: speech recogntion, text-to-speech, and biometrics. Dr. Yudkowsky received his Ph.D. in Physics from Northwestern University; he joined Bell Laboratories in 1987. At Bell Labs, Dr. Yudkowsky worked on several large-scale deployments of speech recognition applications, with responsibilities ranging from architecture to DSP development to application design. Dr. Yudkowsky joined Dialogic Corp. in 1996 to nurture speech development (Dialogic was purchased by Intel in 1999). Dr. Yudkowsky left Dialogic/Intel in 2002 to found Disaggregate. Dr. Yudkowsky was editor of the ECTF's Automatic Speech Recognition Task Group for over a decade, and served as Technical Chair of the ECTF in 2001. He was a board member of AVIOS, a national organization that promotes speech technology. In 2002, he became the first Chair of the Midwest Speech Technology Association, an organization of speech technology professionals.