Gianna Giavelli

Gianna Giavelli was born in Rochester New York. She is a technologist, futurist, and author who has led several silicon valley software companies. She has led research into integration theory, semantic network assisted information retrieval, neural networks and simulation, and location based analytics. She is also a pianist and a photographer.
Education
Gianna graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York with a degree in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence and her thesis was A Neural Network System of Handwritten Writing Recognition. She was also a founding member of the Vassar Buddhist Sangha. During this time she studied Buddhism with John Daido Loori. She later attended Stanford's Computer Science program where she studied genetic programming theory with Dr. John Koza
Career
Gianna was one of the first female CTOs in silicon valley and one of only a handful in the nation. She started out working in several jobs for IBM Federal Systems Research including research work on the B-2 Spirit Bomber's AN/APR 50 program and the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Later she would go on to work as a senior engineer and manager at Oracle where she worked on core parts of the database technology. She also worked as an architect and team lead at Documentum. She managed technology teams for Ziff Davis, CMP Media, and published many technology articles. She was Chief Technology Officer for Velocitos, a business process measurement and optimization company, Chief Executive Officer of Topspot Inc. a recommendation technology, and Chief Technology Officer for Blueturn, a company which supplied analytics software for the US Navy. Later she was a founding member and CTO of CrossMyPath Technology, a location based analytics company.
Writing
She has written several works of fiction and non fiction. Her first book The Kingdom of Mei describes the life of a teen encountering Buddhism and concepts such as overcoming thrownness and identity of relative and absolute. Her second book Kathryn's Magic is the troubled story of three intertwined lives and finding love. Three Daughters of Lin is a children's story about realizing what's important in life. Foundational Principles of Cognitive Cybernetics posits a new theory of brain modeling and simulation - the 3d perceptron, a 1024x1024x1024 matrix - to create conscious systems.
Music
The following are some of the jazz compositions of Gianna Giavelli:
# Where is My Mind
# Green Blues
# Russian Dance
# Walking Improv

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