Ted Hill

Ted Hill, President of Applied R&D; Technology & Solutions Inc. (applied-rd.com), provides end-to-end services for Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED;) Tax Credits. Some successful claims include 3D virtual worlds, ELearning Instructional Design System, EDI supply chain, Assisted Living, AAC device for autism, hydroelectric pressure regulators, Cirque de Soleil gymnastic floor repair process, Climate control system, badminton racket technology, and dentistry. Applied R&D; also develops Health technology solutions including assisted living real-time patient monitoring & trend analysis, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices on .NET platforms; stress and depression monitoring on IOS (iPhone/iPAD) devices back-ended with LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) servers; and emotional health monitoring and trend analysis on VoiceXML and LAMP. From 2002-2008 at CRIM (Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal), Ted was Program manager of numerous multi-discipline multi-partner research projects including the E-Inclusion research network; Automatic Speech Recognition, Automatic Transcription, and Universal Accessibility of Parliamentary Debates and Committee Evidence (RAP); Closed-Captioning Computing Grid; and the MPEG-7 Audiovisual Document Indexing System (MADIS). As Director of Canadian Operations and Product Development for Speech Works from 1999-2002, Edward was in charge of 75 software engineering resources and was directly involved in the inception and design of a number of R&D; thrusts, including distributed speech recognition, embedded speech recognition, stock and mutual fund speech grammars, and speaker identification. The SpeechWorks Canadian lab was a profit center by 2001 (revenue approx. $6M, costs approx. $4.5M). During 14 years at Bell-Northern Research, Edward performed cutting-edge R&D;, and managed products including 411 Automated Directory Assistance, and the Nortel Speech Recognizer. Ted holds a Masters degree in Applied Computer Science from Concordia University and is expected to complete a PhD in Affect Computing (Emotion detection) at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in 2012.