Smithsonian Laureate CTO
New York City,
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In the dark ages, Damion invented Internet customer service at ingk.com before IBM coined e-business. With Martin S. Rood, he founded InstantService.com (now Oracle / $1B rollup) - the first carrier-class chat telecom platform for secure real-time Internet support.
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More recently, Damion won IBM's worldwide AI Watson Developer challenge among teams spanning 18 industries/43 countries, becoming the 6th granted access to IBM's cognitive supercomputer, Watson. His FANG toy (Friendly Anthropomorphic Networked Genome) is the first adaptive education service powered by cognitive computing. Its manifestation was a Watson powered plush toy prototype designed to hold a secure, adaptive educational conversation with kids, parents,
An hour ago, Damion founded HRDN - uncomputable security beyond decryption embodied in a hardware appliance to immunize networks and data - in flight and at rest - from quantum decryption, man-in-the-middle hacks, and brute
Hänkejh was honored as a Smithsonian Laureate in 1999 for his work with surgeon Dr. Robert Lazzara as CTO of Virtual OR (now Swedish Medical), a pioneer at the nexus of telemedicine & minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery, setting the stage for the first fully accredited virtual operating rooms worldwide (a permanent Smithsonian Museum of American
Damion has been a passionate advocate for amfAR since 1995 - and built the foundation's first website & HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Directory Database - the only comprehensive online resource covering life saving global treatment research and
Damion advises IBM, Bain & Co, McKinsey, Fidelity,
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