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In his more than twenty years at Teknowledge, Allan has had an exceptionally broad range of responsibilities and duties. He currently leads efforts to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques to solving real-world problems for government and commercial customers. He has had responsibility for advanced personalization and knowledge-based web interaction products, including Sales Associate, a product whose creation he spearheaded. He has been senior knowledge engineer and project leader for many expert-system efforts such as an order-configuration assistant for a major computer manufacturer, a trouble-shooting system for fiberglass production, and an audit planning system for a major accounting firm. Allan has been product manager and technical lead for Teknowledge's M.4 expert-system tool product and for Enterprise/Dx, an expert-system product specialized for solving diagnosis problems. As a program manager and principal scientist, he has initiated and led numerous government and commercial research and development activities, specializing in diagnosis and configuration. Allan holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Applied Math from Univ. California, Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Computer Science from U.C., Irvine. | 