Service Automation


Team (alphabetically)

Dr. Michael Genesereth

Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
353 Serra Mall, Gates Building
CA 94305 Stanford
genesereth@stanford.edu

Michael Genesereth is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Logic Group and founder of several startups such as Teknowledge, CommerceNet and Mergent Systems. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Genesereth is best known for his work on Artificial Intelligence, especially on Computational Logic. He has published several papers on these research fields in A- and B-ranked journals. In addition, Genesereth is the author of Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, a landmark study on the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence from the vantage point of logic.


Dr. Axel Hochstein

Visiting Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
353 Serra Mall, Gates Building
CA 94305 Stanford
axel.hochstein@cs.stanford.edu

Axel Hochstein is a visiting associate professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. His research is focused on service-oriented computing covering the management layer, the architectural layer as well as the technical layer of service-oriented environments. He published several books and peer-reviewed journal papers on service-oriented computing. Within this field, he also gained 6 years of industry praxis while implementing service management systems especially for large European IT service providers.


Dr. Charles Petrie

Consulting Professor
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
353 Serra Mall, Gates Building
CA 94305 Stanford
petrie@stanford.edu

Charles Petrie is a Senior Research Scientist working in the Stanford CS Logic Group. His research topics are concurrent engineering, enterprise management, and collective work. Dr. Petrie was a Founding Member of Technical Staff of the MCC AI Lab, Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet Computing, and Founding Executive Director of the Stanford Networking Research Center. He is the Founding Chair of the Semantic Web Services Challenge. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.