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Amir Husain
Amir Husain reading The Sentient Machine
Husain in Winter 2017
BornAmir Husain
(1977-11-07) November 7, 1977 (age 41)
Lahore, Pakistan
ResidenceAustin, Texas, United States
Alma mater
Years active1999–present
Title
Board member of
Parent(s)
  • Syed Midhat Kazim
  • Syeda Basarat Midhat Kazim
Websiteamirhusain.com

Amir Husain (born November 7, 1977) is an American artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur and published author.

Early life[edit]

Husain was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He earned a Bachelor's Degree from the Punjab Institute of Computer Sciences and attended the Master's Program at University of Texas at Austin before leaving to pursue his first entrepreneurial endeavor.

Career after graduation[edit]

Husain's first venture-funded startup, Kurion, launched in 1999 and was later sold to iSyndicate in 2001. After Kurion’s sale, he formed a systems management company, InfraManage, which focused on distributed/p2p systems and autonomic Systems management. InfraManage merged with PC Blade manufacturer, ClearCube Technology in 2002. Husain became Chief Technology Officer of ClearCube and was a part of the Board of Directors of ClearCube’s holding company.[1]

Husain also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of VDIworks Inc. from 2008 to 2013. [2]

In 2013, a low cost computing platform Husain invented was inducted into the collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

In November 2017, Husain published his first book, The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence.

SparkCognition[edit]

With the desire to build a company that would be at the forefront of the “AI 3.0” revolution[3], Husain founded SparkCognition, an enterprise artificial intelligence company, in 2013. (Initial investment came from Michael Dell's private equity arm MSD Capital[4].) SparkCognition uses machine learning to analyze data, extracting insights that support decisions and improve operational efficiency. It provides AI systems to increase the production value of assets, automate workflows, and provide endpoint security. The company mainly operates in the industries of energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, finance, aerospace, defense, and security industries. In 2017, it was named the fastest-growing company in Central Texas[5] by the Austin Business Journal.

Awards, publications, and honors[edit]

For his inventions, Husain has been awarded 22 U.S. patents and has over 40 pending patent applications. He served as a founding member of the Board of Advisors for IBM Watson and serves on the board of advisors for University of Texas Department of Computer Science, Makerarm, ClearCube Technology, uStudio and others. He has been featured in media outlets including Foreign Policy[6], Fox Business[7], Marketwatch[8], and Proceedings from the U.S. Naval Institute[9]. In 2015, Husain was named Austin’s Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.[10]

Patents[edit]

  • System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity (Nov 21, 2006)[11]
  • Data fail-over for a multi-computer system (Jan 8, 2008)[12]
  • Distributed resource manager (Feb 5, 2008)[13]
  • Distributed computing infrastructure including small peer-to-peer applications (May 6, 2008)[14]
  • System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity (May 6, 2008)[15]
  • System and method for reducing user-application interactions to archivable form (Sept 30, 2008)[16]
  • Distributed computing infrastructure including autonomous intelligent management system (Oct 7, 2008)[17]
  • Maintaining a pool of free virtual machines on a server computer (May 8, 2012)[18]
  • Utility computing system having co-located computer systems for provision of computing resources (July 2, 2013)[19]
  • Zero client device with integrated serial or parallel ports (Sept 17, 2013)[20]
  • Mass storage lockout for USB devices on extended USB system (Feb 25, 2014)[21]
  • Zero client device with integrated Bluetooth capability (Oct 7, 2014)[22]
  • Maintaining a pool of free virtual machines on a server computer (March 26, 2015)[23]
  • Capturing and restoring session state of a machine without using memory images (May 26, 2015)[24]
  • Associating Virtual Machines on a Server Computer with Particular Users on an Exclusive Basis (June 9, 2016)[1]
  • Zero client device with multi-boot capability supporting multiple zero client protocols (June 23, 2015)[25]
  • System and method for creating a core cognitive fingerprint (Jul 16, 2015)[26]
  • Zero client device with integrated serial bandwidth augmentation and support for out-of-band serial communications (Sept 15, 2015)[27]
  • Systems and methods for using cognitive fingerprints (Oct 15, 2015)[28]
  • Cooperative execution of a genetic algorithm with an efficient training algorithm for data-driven model creation (Oct 10, 2017)[29]
  • System and method for generation of a heuristic (Nov 14, 2017)[30]

References[edit]

  1. ^ ClearCube Appoints New Chief Technology Officer to Provide Strategic Leadership in Product Development
  2. ^ [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081028005384/en/VDIworks-Names-Amir-Husain-President-Chief-Executive VDIworks Names Amir Husain President and Chief Executive Officer ]
  3. ^ "Startup Stories: Sparkcognition CEO & Co-Founder Amir Husain on His Love of Computers, Humble Beginnings, and More". www.verizonventures.com. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  4. ^ "Austin AI startup SparkCognition lands $32 million". Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  5. ^ "https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2017/10/26/fast-50-2017-is-austin-ai-startup-sparkcognition.html". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-05-09. External link in |title= (help)
  6. ^ "The Next Space Race Is Artificial Intelligence". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  7. ^ "How the oil industry could benefit from artificial intelligence". Fox Business. 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  8. ^ Husain, Amir. "The next phase of artificial intelligence will replace inventors". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  9. ^ "On Hyperwar | U.S. Naval Institute". www.usni.org. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  10. ^ Tech Titan: CEO of SparkCognition, Amir Husain, named Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by Austin Business Journal
  11. ^ US Patent 7139809 B2: System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity
  12. ^ US 20030120772 A1: Data fail-over for a multi-computer system
  13. ^ US 7328261 B2: Distributed resource manager
  14. ^ US 7370336 B2: Distributed computing infrastructure including small peer-to-peer applications
  15. ^ US 7370083 B2: System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity
  16. ^ US 7430616 B2: System and method for reducing user-application interactions to archivable form
  17. ^ US 7434220 B2: Distributed computing infrastructure including autonomous intelligent management system
  18. ^ US 8176486 B2: Maintaining a pool of free virtual machines on a server computer
  19. ^ US 8479146 B2: Utility computing system having co-located computer systems for provision of computing resources
  20. ^ US 8539025 B2: Zero client device with integrated serial or parallel ports
  21. ^ US 8661523 B2: Mass storage lockout for USB devices on extended USB system
  22. ^ US 8855564 B2: Zero client device with integrated Bluetooth capability
  23. ^ Husain, Syed Mohammad Amir; Printz, Randy P., eds. (January 3, 2017), United States Patent: 9537949 - Computer system image clustering architecture and use (9537949), retrieved 2018-05-16
  24. ^ US 9043391 B2: Capturing and restoring session state of a machine without using memory images
  25. ^ US 20120317180 A1 B2: Zero client device with multi-boot capability supporting multiple zero client protocols
  26. ^ US 9292675 B2: System and method for creating a core cognitive fingerprint
  27. ^ US 9134945 B2: Zero client device with integrated serial bandwidth augmentation and support for out-of-band serial communications
  28. ^ US 9578053 B2: Systems and methods for using cognitive fingerprints
  29. ^ US 9785886 B1 B2: Cooperative execution of a genetic algorithm with an efficient training algorithm for data-driven model creation
  30. ^ US 20150220850 A1: System and method for generation of a heuristic