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Published Date: Dec. 6, 1996
Company Name: Extempo Systems Inc.
Address: 2540 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Main Telephone
Number: 408/562-7958
Chief Executive
Officer: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Investor Relations
Contact: Barbara Hayes-Roth
Business number: 408/562-7958
Public Relations
Contact: Keith Wescourt
Business number: 408/562-7957
Home number: 415/851-4440
URL Address: http://www.extempo.com
Industry: Software & Services for Entertainment, Education,
Consumer of Commerce
Company description: Extempo Systems Inc. designs and builds synthetic actors for incorporation into interactive products for entertainment, education and business. Extempo's software provides the "brains" for computer characters represented in different embodiments (e.g. graphics, animation, virtual reality, text, robots). Extempo's actors engage in intelligent and surprising improvisational behavior appropriate to the application context in which they appear, guided by their personality, mood and real-time directions from the user or other programs. Extempo is the first company to develop a software architecture, development tools, and a run-time engine for directable, improvisational characters. Markets: Computer games, entertainment and education products On-line services and environments Business-to-business and business-to-consumer sales/marketing on the World Wide Web History: Extempo was founded by Dr. Barbara Hayes-Roth and was incorporated as a California C Corporation in September 1995. Dr. Hayes-Roth also serves as Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Extempo's synthetic actor technology is based on over a decade of government-sponsored R&D on intelligent agents performed at Stanford by Dr. Hayes-Roth and her staff. The intelligent agent software has been used at Stanford and by corporate affiliates in industrial, medical and education applications. Extempo has extended this public domain technology and adapted it for use in synthetic actor applications for consumer software and other interactive products. Extempo owns all rights to this intellectual property and has filed for patent protection of the method and system for directed improvisation improvisation Creation of music in real time. Improvisation usually involves some preparation beforehand, particularly when there is more than one performer. Despite the central place of notated music in the Western tradition, improvisation has often played a role, from the by computer characters. Capitalization capitalization n. 1) the act of counting anticipated earnings and expenses as capital assets (property, equipment, fixtures) for accounting purposes. 2) the amount of anticipated net earnings which hypothetically can be used for conversion into capital assets. : Privately held, Extempo was capitalized through the sale of equity to the employee founders. Additional capitalization has been provided by $2.2 million in awards from the U.S. Department of Commerce Advanced Technology Program and the State of California. Management: Barbara Hayes-Roth: Founder, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President Perry W. Thorndyke: Director and Acting COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. Keith Wescourt: Director, Product Management CONTACT: Extempo Systems Inc. |
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