Chief Architect, Bing Local Search
Microsoft/Bing
Barney Pell is Chief Architect for Local Search for Bing. He was previously Founder and CEO of Powerset, a natural language search engine acquired by Microsoft. Earlier, he was an Entrepeneur in Residence at Mayfield VC, an autonomous robotics researcher and manager at NASA, and a pioneer of general game-playing programs in AI. He's also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University and an active angel investor and advisor to startups.