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William Meisel is the author of the 2013 book, The Software Society, which explores the impact of technology acceleration driven by software on individuals and the economy. Previous books include a technical book, Computer-Oriented Approaches to Pattern Recognition. He edited and contributed to the collections New Components and Subsystems for Digital Design; VUI Visions: Expert Views on Effective Voice User Interface Design; and Speech in the User Interface: Lessons from Experience.

Dr. Meisel writes a monthly paid-subscription newsletter, Speech Strategy News, on commercial developments created by advances in speech and language processing, and has a blog, Meisel-on-Mobile. He is president of TMA Associates, a consulting firm, and Executive Director of the Applied Voice Input Output Society (AVIOS), a 30-year-old non-profit industry organization. In that role, he organizes the program for the Mobile Voice Conference.

Meisel began his career as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USC. After working in university research, Dr. Meisel launched and managed the Computer Science Division of a defense company, applying pattern recognition technology to a number of application areas, including target detection and intelligence data analysis. He then founded a venture-capital-backed speech recognition company, Speech Systems Incorporated (SSI), and ran it for ten years.

Meisel has a B.S. degree in Engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.