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Printz has more than 12 years of experience in automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics. Before joining Promptu, Printz was manager of Pervasive Conversational Technology at IBM's Watson Research Laboratory. In this role, he managed research for IBM Embedded ViaVoice, the speech recognizer that is currently deployed in Honda Accord automobiles. He also conceived and co-designed the IBM speech chip. Prior to IBM, he worked at the Digital Equipment Corporation's Paris Research Lab and at Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Printz holds a B.A. magna cum laude and an M.A. in physics from Harvard University, a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. He holds nine U.S. patents in the areas of speech recognition, data compression, and statistical modeling.