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Steven Gregory Woods (born June 16, 1965 in Melfort, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding ''Quack.com'', the first popular Voice portal platform, in 1998. == Career == Woods holds a Ph.D and M.Math from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Waterloo - notable companies started by alumni )〕 in Canada and a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan. He was the first Ph.D student of Professor Qiang Yang. 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"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments )〕 He then worked for Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SEI Architecture Practices Propel Successful Startup )〕 on product line development and practical software architectural reconstruction and analysis. 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. It was funded September 1, 1999, and acquired August 31, 2000 by America Online. Quack.com claimed to be the first Voice Portal, and held patents around interactive voice applications, including "System and method for voice access to internet-based information".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=System and method for voice access to internet-based information )〕 Woods was vice president of voice services for America Online and Netscape after the acquisition of Quack.com in September, 2000.〔 〕 He founded NeoEdge in 2002 under the name Kinitos〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Steven Woods - P.G. Sorenson Distinguished Graduate Lecture )〕 along with former America Online, Netscape, and Quack.com colleagues including Jeromy Carriere. He served as an officer and on the board of directors from 2001 through 2010 in Palo Alto, California. Woods was engineering director for Google in Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Steven Woods's public LinkedIn profile )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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