Steven Minton, the President and founder of InferLink, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is internationally recognized for his contributions to Artificial Intelligence. In 1998, Dr. Minton was selected to be a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). In additional to founding InferLink and several other AI companies, he also founded a non-profit organization, AI Access Foundation, the publisher of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), currently one of the highest-impact journals in computer science. Dr. Minton served as the first executive editor of JAIR and continues to participate as a Managing Editor and as the Director of AI Access Foundation. He has served as an editor of the Machine Learning Journal and as an advisor to the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the Computing Research Repository, and various high-tech companies. Dr. Minton has taught courses in AI and Machine Learning at numerous universities, including Stanford, where he designed and taught the machine learning course (CS229) the first two years it was offered.

 

After graduating from CMU, Dr. Minton became a Principal Investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and subsequently a Research Associate Professor at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute. He left USC to cofound Fetch Technologies in 2000, where he put together a team that delivered software and services to some of the nation’s largest enterprises. Since then, Minton has co-founded seven other AI companies (in addition to InferLink), including Evid Science, an InferLink spinoff that was acquired in December 2020.

 

His awards include AAAI’s Englemore award for his contributions to AI research applications and leadership in the field. Other awards include the 2021 IJCAI Distinguished Service award, the 2008 AAAI Classic Paper award and the 1988 Best Paper award at the National AI conference.