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Brian Patrick Strope worked as a researcher in high tech and AI for 30 years. He has an Sc.B. from Brown University in Electrical Engineering, where he first worked on speech recognition. After his undergrad degree, he designed workstation hardware for Hewlett Packard for 4 years. His MS and PhD degrees are from UCLA where he studied auditory modeling and robust speech recognition. He was a research engineer at Nuance Communications for 7 years as part of the Speech R&D group where he worked on speech detection, tuning strategies, and acoustic modeling. He was a research scientist at Google for 14 years, where he first helped build Google's early speech recognition systems, and later helped manage Ray Kurzweil's research efforts in Artificial Intelligence. Work from that team was first used in GMail's "smart reply" feature that provides response suggestions to emails. As a general process for representing meaning of language, the team's work was then used ...