Bryant Cruse is a futurist, philosopher, engineer, and entrepreneur. His career has been eclectic. He has been a Naval Aviator, a space systems engineer and has been doing pioneering work in practical Artificial Intelligence applications for more than three decades. As an undergraduate at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland he formulated an original theory about the nature and structure of knowledge. He went on to design mission operation scenarios for the Hubble Space Telescope and became a force behind early applications of AI for NASA, commercial and military space systems. Prior to founding New Sapience, he founded or co-founded two previous AI companies, both were eventually acquired by public corporations. In addition to his BA from St. Johns he holds an MS in Space Technology from Johns Hopkins and an MS (equivalent) in AI from the Lockheed AI Center in Palo Alto.