
Brian Garr
As CEO of LinguaSys Brian Garr is working to solve the human language challenges in big data and social media for blue chip clients around the world. That effort has resulted in the LinguaSys natural language processing software enabling real time multilingual text analysis, semantic analytics and fast, cost-effective natural language user interfaces (NLUI).
Brian was CTO of Globalink (a Machine Translation company) from 1995-1998 when Globalink was sold to L&H. Brian then went to IBM and started the MT business segment for IBM’s Software Group. He also managed IBM’s Speech Recognition Group. Brian has been an advocate and frequent speaker on MT and Speech Reco all over the world. In 1998 he was awarded the Smithsonian Institutes’ “Heroes in Technology” award for his work in Machine Translation. Brian was also a contributing author to the recently pubished Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems, edited by Amy Neustein and Judith A. Markowitz (Jun 30, 2013).