Ben Vierck#
About#
An accomplished technology leader and entrepreneur specializing in deep learning and software development. Founder of Positronic AI and co-founder of Devfarm Software, with a history of leadership at Fortune 100 companies.
Bio#
Benjamin Vierck is a technology leader and entrepreneur with a strong history of building successful companies and driving innovation. He is the founder of Positronic AI, a deep learning software and services company that developed the LIT.AI platform, enabling clients to independently build deep learning models. Previously, Mr. Vierck co-founded Devfarm Software, where he served as CTO and Principal Architect, creating the award-winning PowerWF and PowerSE PowerShell tools.
His engineering expertise is underscored by his roles at Fortune 100 companies. At Fujitsu's North America software division, he served as Vice President of Engineering [1]. At Dell Software (formerly Quest Software), he was a Software Development Manager [2]. Earlier in his career, at Microsoft, Mr. Vierck was a Software Engineer on the Windows team [3]. Over his career, he has contributed to the development of four major commercial software platforms. His commitment to advancing the field of AI is shown by his co-authorship of four patents [4] in deep learning.
Software#
- Positronic LIT.AI: A platform for building deep learning models.
- Fujitsu Capture Server (PaperStream Server): A web-based document processing platform that enables organizations to capture, process, and introduce business-critical content into their systems. It offers features like document separation, classification, extraction, and data release, automating many of the manual steps in document processing.
- Devfarm PowerWF, PowerSE, PowerVI: PowerShell script authoring and management tools.
- Dell Benchmark Factory, Foglight Transaction Recorder: Database and web server load testing tools.
- Microsoft Windows: Operating system.
Patents#
US PROVISIONAL PATENT 63/708,059
COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REAL-TIME HYPERPARAMETER TUNING OF MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING PROCESSES VIA LANGUAGE MODELS
US-20230177325-A1 COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRESERVING SIGNALS FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS WHEN DOWNSAMPLING
US-20230316072-A1 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR SPARSE DATA PROCESSING
US-20240112023-A1 COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRESERVING SIGNALS IN DATA INPUTS WITH MODERATE TO HIGH LEVELS OF VARIANCES IN DATA SEQUENCE LENGTHS FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING
Talks#
Software Engineering Nankai University Guest Lecture
This personal perspective on the history of Software Engineering follows the state of Software Engineering from its birth in 1968 through the present. The content of this talk was heavily influenced by Paulo Perrota's talk at the 2012 Ruby Conference.
Publications and Articles#
- VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration by Luc Dekens (First Edition, Chapter 22)
- Essential Blogging published by O'Reilly (Acknowledgement)
- Artificial Intelligence for Humans by Jeff Heaton (Acknowledgement)
- Microsoft Scripting Blog Articles:
- "PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image" - March 19, 2015
- "PowerTip: Read .exe Magic Number with PowerShell" - March 19, 2015
- "PSImaging Part 2: Export-Text from Images" - March 20, 2015
- "PSImaging Part 3: Group-ImageFile" - March 21, 2015
Conferences and Events#
- Gartner Symposium IT Forum 2019 (Attendee)
- FIRST Robotics Competition: Deep Space, 2019 (Judge & Speaker)
- StartupGrind Global 2018 Top 50 Startup (Top 20 Finalist)
- StampedeCon 2017 (Speaker)
- AIIM Conference 2014 (Speaker)
- Title: "Ensure Your SharePoint Implementation is a Recipe for Success"
- Date: Wednesday, April 2nd (2:00-2:30pm)
- Microsoft TechEd 2014 (Exhibitor)
- Sharepoint Conference 2014 (Exhibitor)
- Microsoft System Center Alliance ISV Partner 2013 (Exhibitor)
- Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (Exhibitor)
- Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (Exhibitor)
- Microsoft TechEd 2010 (Exhibitor)
- VMWorld 2009 (Exhibitor, Speaker)
- Interactive St Louis 2009 (Speaker)