Nationality American Alma mater University of Chicago | Name Norman Winarsky Education University of Chicago | |
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Institutions Institute for Advanced Study
Sarnoff Corporation
SRI International
Stanford University | ||
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Norman Winarsky is vice president of Ventures at SRI International and was a co-founder and board member of Siri. He is also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
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- The future of virtual personal assistants norman winarsky at usi
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards and memberships
- References
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Early life and education
Winarsky earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, a Master of Science in 1970, and a Ph.D. in 1974, all in mathematics and from the University of Chicago. His Ph.D. thesis, "Reducibility of Principal Series Representations of p-Adic Groups" was completed under the advisement of Paul Sally. From 1969 to 1974, Winarsky was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and was a member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1971 to 1972, and the summers from 1973 to 1976.
Career
After receiving his Ph.D., Winarsky was initially an assistant professor of mathematics at the State University of New York. In 1976, Winarsky joined RCA Laboratories, later known as Sarnoff Corporation.
Winarsky has been SRI International's vice president, Ventures and Strategic Business Development, since November 2001; in this position, he is responsible for licensing and spin-offs.
Since 2010, he has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, researching regions of innovation.
Awards and memberships
In 1984, Winarsky received the Sarnoff Award, RCA Laboratories' highest honor, for "development of the physical understanding and computer software for simulating electron trajectories in picture tubes". In 2011, he received an alumni service award from the University of Chicago.
Winarsky is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.