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William Meisel

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William (“Bill”) Meisel’s experience combines a strong academic, technical, and business background. With a B.S. degree in Engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, he began his career as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USC. He has published over 70 papers and several books, including a technical book, Computer-Oriented Approaches to Pattern Recognition. He was the editor and a contributor to New Components and Subsystems for Digital Design; VUI Visions: Expert Views on Effective Voice User Interface Design; Speech in the User Interface: Lessons from Experience; The Software Society: Cultural and Economic Impact (2013), and Technically Dead (2015) ...more

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A fundamental problem in the economy that isn’t being addressed

Current economic news validates the concerns in The Software Society about the impact of automation eliminating jobs too rapidly for the economy to properly adjust. The strength of the recovery is brought into question by Labor Department revisions last week reducing the reported number of jobs created in June and July by a total of 74,000 jobs. And statistics continue to affirm that the jobs bein

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