Steven Woods

Steven Woods

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name = Steven Gregory Woods


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birth_place = Melfort, Saskatchewan
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occupation = Currently Google site director in Waterloo, Canada. Former Quack.com Co-founderand NeoEdge Co-founder & Director.
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Steven Gregory Woods (born June 16, 1965, Melfort, Saskatchewan, is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding "Quack.com", the first popular Voice portal platform, in 1998.

Career

Motivated by Woods' desire to pull together a highly talented group of friends in one place to do something interesting for a year, Quack.com was born in 1998, funded September 1st, 1999, and acquired August 31st, 2000 by America Online for 200 million dollars. [cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9357905_ITM|title=Voice: The Killer App|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008]

Woods is currently a Site Director for Google in Waterloo, Canada. [cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenwoods
title=Steven Woods's public LinkedIn profile|accessdate=2008-09-24|year=2008
] Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer of NeoEdge Networks, in Palo Alto, California. [cite web
title =NeoEdge | Company
publisher =NeoEdge Networks
date =2008
url =http://neoedge.com/company/mt.htm#steven
format =
doi =
accessdate = 2008-03-13
] He founded NeoEdge in 2002 under the name Kinitos [cite web|url=http://www.cs.usask.ca/research/seminars/pgs_dg.shtml|title=Steven Woods - P.G. Sorenson Distinguished Graduate Lecture|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008] along with former America Online, Netscape, and Quack.com colleagues including Jeromy Carriere. Prior to NeoEdge, Woods was Vice President of Voice Services for America Online and Netscape - joining America Online through the acquisition of Quack.com in September, 2000 [cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5559/is_200009/ai_n22589166
title=Jefferson Partners' Investment in Quack.com Pays Off, as Voice-to-Web Innovator is Acquired by AOL|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] . Quack.com was notable as the first Voice Portal, and held a number of key patents around interactive voice applications, including the definitive Voice Portal patent - "System and method for voice access to internet-based information" [cite web|url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=Z1kOAAAAEBAJ&dq=Steven+Woods|title=System and method for voice access to internet-based information
accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] . In 1998 Woods co-founded Pittsburgh-based voice-portal infrastructure company Quackware with Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici. Quackware became Quack.com in 1999 and moved headquarters to Silicon Valley [cite web|url=http://www.digitalmooselounge.com/press/press_5.htm
title=Risking it all for dot-com gold in California|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] . Before the founding of Quack.com, Woods was Technical Staff Member at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute [cite web|url=http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news-at-sei/features/2002/1q02/feature-1-1q02.htm
title=SEI Architecture Practices Propel Successful Startup|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] working on technical efforts there in product line development and practical software architectural reconstruction and analysis. He holds a Ph.D and M.Math from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo [cite web|url=http://uw.cheerweb.net/index.php?secid=17&pageid=55&PHPSESSID=d899682e021826bda04e16e8607013d2
title=University of Waterloo - notable companies started by alumni|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] in Canada and a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan [cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Saskatchewan#Notable_companies_started_by_alumni_and_spin-offs
title=Steven Woods - University of Saskatchewan Alumni|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] .

Woods' Ph.D was published in 1997 as a book co-written with Alex Quilici and Qiang Yang entitled "Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments" [cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Based-Design-Recovery-Software-Reengineering/dp/B000TB8BKG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205539108&sr=8-2
title=Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
]

Trivia

*While at the University of Waterloo, Woods captained the varsity Waterloo Warriors golf team and in 1995 was co-winner of the Ontario University Athletics "Len Shore Trophy" for top individual performance [cite web|url=http://oua.ca/sports/golf/awards/#LEN%20SHORE%20TROPHY
title=OUA Golf Len Shore Trophy|accessdate=2008-03-13|year=2008
] .
*During 1991-1992 Woods was a member of the Canberra Knights semi-professional ice hockey in the Australian Ice Hockey League.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Woods:Steven.html Research Publications by Steven Woods]


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