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Bill Baker |
Bill Baker has been kicking around the BI industry longer than the term “Business Intelligence”. He graduated from M.I.T. in 1979 and immediately went to work at Dynamics Associates which built and sold time-series analytics software and services. Bill then spent eight-plus years at Softbridge Microsystems where he helped develop an early PC-based application ‘factory’ for building business content-rich applications. Bill aslo served as Sr. VP of Product Development at IRI Software where he led the development of the Express multi-dimensional database including its first Windows-based user interface and porting to a wide variety of server platforms. In 1995 Oracle purchased IRI Software.
Bill then spent twelve-plus years at Microsoft where he started the BI team within the SQL Server product unit. Bill and his team delivered three releases of Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Integration Services and the SQL Server Management Studio. Bill was a frequent spokesperson for BI at Microsoft. During his tenure at Microsoft, Bill was named a Distinguished Engineer.
More recently he was CTO at Visible Technologies, a Bellevue, WA company that produces software to measure and analyze brand perceptions and performance in social media. Currently Bill is serving on several corporate boards, a few advisory boards and assisting several local software startups in the Seattle area. |
David Heckerman,
Microsoft Corp. |
David Heckerman is Senior Director of the eScience Group at Microsoft Research. Since 1992, he has been a researcher at Microsoft, where he has created applications including the first machine-learning spam filter, data-mining tools in SQL Server and Commerce Server, handwriting recognition in the Tablet PC, text mining software in Sharepoint Portal Server, troubleshooters in Windows, and the Answer Wizard in Office.
His technical work has concentrated on methods for learning probabilistic graphical models from data. General applications of his work include data mining, intelligent systems, and causal discovery. He received his Ph.D. (1990) and M.D. (1992) from Stanford University. His Ph.D. dissertation received the ACM doctoral dissertation award. David is a AAAI Fellow and a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
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Dr. Michael Mercy |
Dr. Mercy earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as Chief Resident of the Emergency Department. He later served as Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.
Dr. Mercy serves on the Board of Directors for the Ada County Medical Society and Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Mercy is a past Board Member for Albertson College and the Idaho Black History Museum and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington. He was also a partner in Idaho Emergency Physicians and worked for Emergency Medicine of Idaho, practicing fulltime at St. Lukes Wood River Medical Center.
Dr. Mercy was recently accepted into the Executive MBA program at Boise State University and works locum tenums in a number of hospitals in Idaho. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Executives (FAAPE) as well as a Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians. |
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