Danny Lange

Dr. Danny B. Lange (born 1962) is Head of Machine Learning at Uber where he leads an effort to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper-growth. With the help of this branch of Artificial Intelligence including Deep Learning, Uber is expecting to automate and optimize much its business decision-making. Previously, Danny was the General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning - an AWS product that offers Machine Learning as a Service. Prior to Amazon, Danny was Principal Development Manager at Microsoft where he was leading a product team focused on large-scale Machine Learning for Big Data. Earlier, he was a Software Architect in Bing responsible for Mobile Search.

Danny spent 8 years on Speech Recognition Systems: First as CTO of General Magic, Inc., 1997 to 2001, he built the architecture for its voice response service. Through his work on General Motor’s OnStar Virtual Advisor, Danny provided the foundation for the development of one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until the arrival of Siri. Then as co-founder of Vocomo – 2001 to 2005 – he built Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Vocomo’s VoiceXML technology was licensed by Google in 2005.

Prior to joining General Magic, Dr. Lange was Visiting Scientist at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, 1993 to 1997, where he is known for his invention of the Java Aglet, a lightweight mobile agent for the Java programming environment. In addition to his software agent work, he has also made significant contributions in the areas of hypertext technology, object-oriented database modeling, and Design Pattern visualization techniques.

He has also been Visiting Researcher at Tokyo University and a consultant for Nissho Electronics in Tokyo. From 1987 to 1992, Danny was Software Architect at Brüel & Kjær A/S in Nærum, Denmark, where he led development of a pioneering network-based distributed hypertext system. He developed his first network-based hypertext browser in 1988 and pioneered the concept of Web CGI in 1992/93. Danny wrote his first program for CP/M on a Canon micro computer in 1980. He also wrote a compiler for Canon Basic based on the Motorola 6809 CPU.

Danny is a native of the Kingdom of Denmark. He holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society. He has several patents to his credit, has presented his work at leading conferences, published articles in many journals.

Danny's daughter, Yina Moe-Lange, is an accomplished Olympic alpine ski racer and his son, Jacob Moe-Lange, is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University.

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