TRACLabs Benefits from Expert Advisors in Moving Artificial Intelligence Forward
09.03.10
Houston, TX ( PRWEB ) Parade 9, 2010 -- Houston firm TRACLabs, an persistence leader in the fields of robotics, automation and faked intelligence, has always been fortunate to have incredible expertise from both its dedicated employees and advisors. As train co-founder David Kortenkamp will tell you, it takes peculiar people to accomplish what hasn’t been done before.
Most recently one of the partnership’s chief advisors and a member of the Board of Directors, Dr. Percy Pierre, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, mainly for his work in managing major R&D weapons systems projects for the US Army. This noted honor is reserved only for the engineering profession’s most esteemed pioneers and leaders.
Currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Shape University, Dr. Pierre has served on the Boards of critical for profit and not for profit R&D corporations. He also served on the NASA Administrator’ Consultative Board. He has consulted on developments within the robotics and sham intelligence fields for decades.
“When you are working with clients like NASA and the Sphere of influence of Defense, you need to surround yourself with the smartest people and the pre-eminent advisors you can find. We’ve been able to do that. There are very few companies that have access to experts like Dr. Pierre. He is a impractical. He sees things that have not been done before not as impossible but as challenging and feasible. His knowledge and experience are so beneficial to us. His election to the Jingoistic Academy of Engineering is recognition of his level of adroitness. It’s the profession’s highest honor and Percy certainly deserves it,” Kortenkamp says.
Pierre’s evocative resume shows a lifetime of careers that period education, government, and the private sector. His ivory-tower career alone is impressive, and yet it represents just a fragment of his accomplishments. In addition to Michigan State, he has been President of Prairie Impression A&M University and was the Dean of Engineering at Howard University. He also was Program Political appointee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for research, evolution and acquisitions. His consultancy, Percy Pierre & Associates consults to company, government and education.
Source: PR Web (press release)
