Earl Cox, Scianta Intelligence’s Founder and President, is a futurist, author, management consultant, and educator involved in discovering the epistemology of advanced intelligent systems, the redefinition of the machine mind, and, as a pioneer of Internet-based technologies, the way in which evolving inter-connected virtual worlds will affect the sociology of business and culture in the near and far future.

Earl has over thirty years experience in managing and participating in the software development process at the system as well as tightly integrated application level. In the area of advanced machine intelligence  technologies, Earl is a recognized expert in fuzzy logic, and adaptive fuzzy systems as they are applied to information and decision theory. He has pioneered the integration of fuzzy neural systems with genetic algorithms and case-based reasoning. As an industry observer and futurist, Earl has written and talked extensively on the philosophy of the Response to Change, the nature of Emergent Intelligence, and the Meaning of Information Entropy in Mind and Machine.

Earl Cox has successfully started three high technology software companies since the early 1970's. From 1972 until 1985 he was the founder and senior product architect for Interactive Logic, Inc. where he ran both the company's domestic as well as international operations and designed and developed The Scheduling and Resource Management System (SRMS), a mainframe-based enterprise modeling system using project management and financial analysis techniques to plan, deploy, and track complex, multi-resource, multi-project enterprises. Marketed independently and through Tymshare, McDonnell Douglas, and Unilever in the United States and Great Britain, over two hundred government agencies and Fortune 500 corporations in the United States and Europe have been SRMS users. SRMS was built on a full Codd-compliant relational model during the middle 1970's making it one of the first commercial products to directly incorporate and deliver relational technology. Interactive Logic was acquired by a leading aerospace company's information division in 1985.

From 1985 until 1991 Earl was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Knowledge Based Technologies where he developed Telus, a fully integrated mainframe and distributed expert system. Telus was one of the first object oriented commercial software systems. Working with leading companies in managed health care, insurance, transportation, manufacturing, and finance, designed and implemented fuzzy logic-based systems in such areas as provider fraud detection, risk analysis, optimal container supply and demand balancing, company acquisition and financial stability evaluation, database organization and linguistic retrieval, intelligent project management, process and control engineering, capital budgeting, and systems complexity analysis. Knowledge Based Technologies was acquired by IBM in 1991 for its managed healthcare fraud detection system.

From 1992 until early 2000 he was the founder and President of Metus Systems, a software and consulting company, where he designed and deployed AI-based clinical information systems, Internet-based retailing systems for: customer cross-marketing, new line of business discovery, product positioning, and client profitability; managed healthcare provider fraud detection, drug discovery and genome analysis, intelligent agent systems, portfolio safety and suitability models, and project risk assessment. During this period, as part of his consulting services, Earl served as Chief Scientist and Vice President of Research for Panacya, Inc. a start-up eBusiness infrastructure management company where he designed their core behavior analysis modeling technologies. While at Panacya, Earl developed several pending patents: A Framework for Behavior Experts in eService Management, Autonomous Agents for the Management of Availability and Service Performance in eService Management, An Adaptive Feedback System for Infrastructure Optimization, and A Uniform Data Model for eBusiness Modeling.

In the summer of 2001, Earl founded and serves as President of, Scianta Intelligence, a next generation machine intelligence and knowledge exploration company. Scianta Intelligence focuses on the application of machine intelligence and other advanced technologies to solving difficult business, life sciences, logistics, and behavioral problems in both the public and private sectors. Drawing on a consortium of business and technology leaders, Scianta offers a broad spectrum of services including consulting, education and software, as well as investor and line of business risk assessment

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