Advisory Board
Marvin Minsky
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Professor of EECS, MIT. A pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of the most important cognitive scientists of the century. Marvin pioneered advances in mathematics, computational linguistics, optics, robotics and telepresence. He built SNARC, (Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator), the first neural network simulator, and founded MIT's AI Lab.
Aaron Emigh
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Six Apart Ltd. A prolific technologist, Aaron has created networking, content discovery, storage, e-commerce, compression and multimedia products, and has conducted original research in security, vision, machine learning and operating systems. A frequent speaker on online security and privacy topics, Aaron serves with several public-interest organizations such as the US Department of Homeland Security Identity Theft Technology Council and the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force.
William S. Thomas, Jr.
Former president and chief executive officer of Pacific Capital Bancorp and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. William served in senior management positions at Security Pacific National Bank and Bank of America. William is on the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, United Way of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Partners in Education, and El Adobe Corporation. He provides advice and guidance on banking and financial issues related to Cocoon payment card services.