Celeste Suzanne Baranski is an American electronic engineer, entrepreneur, and executive who helped create several pioneering electronic devices including early versions of the tablet computer. Baranski, with her colleague

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, won the ''

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'' Award from Discover Magazine in 1993.

Education

Baranski attended Stanford University from 1975 to 1980 and obtained Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering.

Career

After engineering jobs at

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, GRiD Systems, and Tsunami Technologies, Baranski joined GO Corporation in 1987 as one of the founders, and served as Vice President of Engineering. In 1990, the hardware division of GO was divested as EO Inc. and she continued there from 1990 to 1994, producing the

EO Personal Communicator The EO is an early commercial tablet computer that was created by Eo Inc. (later acquired by AT&T Corporation), and released in April 1993. Eo (Latin for "I go") was the hardware spin-out of GO Corporation. Officially named the AT&T EO Personal ...

, an early tablet computer. The device did not enjoy commercial success so after the collapse of Go/EO, she worked from 1994 to 2006 on mobile devices at Norand Corporation,

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, Set Engineering, Handspring, and

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. After taking a sabbatical she founded Vitamin D Video, a machine vision company, in 2007 and served as its chief executive officer until 2010. The company licensed artificial intelligence algorithms from Numenta, a company founded by Jeff Hawkins whom she met at Handspring/Palm. It was acquired by Sighthound in 2013. From 2010 to 2014 she was senior vice president, engineering, at Panasas, a data storage company. In 2014 she joined Hawkins' machine intelligence company, Numenta, as Vice President of Engineering.

References

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