What does 51 years of building across technologies bring to your next AI challenge?

Howard Pearlmutter has spent 51 paid years and more than 200 engagements making technical possibility usable, chiefly through companies he founded. Development and consulting clients include NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, Fujitsu, CSC, Capital One, Symantec, and the Financial Times. He has been paid to present to professionals from IBM, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT British Telecom, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, Xerox PARC, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays across five continents.

GM and Ford needed complex factory designs made visible so their executives could approve; Howard built the animated virtual reality web signoff system. Valtech repeatedly trusted him with demanding Java enterprise-architecture audiences. His earlier work includes extensible-language products, MIT supercomputer research, and parallel computing for NASA Ames. These are chapters of one practical skill: helping people in different roles see enough of a complex technical system to work with it.

At Telos Alliance, Howard combined current AI-assisted prototyping with a custom seminar for product development. About 20 people were expected; 47 came, including software and hardware developers, product and project leaders, executives, and skeptics. Client president John Schur credited Howard with addressing the skeptics' concerns and wrote, “I felt that Telos received multiple times the value of our investment.” The same builder and teacher will lead public AI4DEV.

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