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Steve Strassmann

Steve Strassmann

making software more reasonable

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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined April 2026
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Summary

Serial entrepreneur and startup founder focused on AI oversight and functional integrity. artificialtrust+1
Experienced technical leader across industry and government, having held senior engineering roles at major technology companies and serving as CTO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. mit+1
Academic researcher and inventor with a PhD from the MIT Media Lab (advisee of Marvin Minsky), multiple conference publications (SIGGRAPH, AAAI), and several patents. mit+3
Mentor and academic entrepreneur engaged with Harvard initiatives and interdisciplinary bioinformatics, serving as Entrepreneur in Residence and visiting scientist to connect technology, biology, and clinical applications. harvard+2
Thought leader on AI pathologies and trust, producing essays and participating in panels that frame AI failures using analogies to biological disease. artificialtrust+1

Work

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Writing

Semi-Autonomous Animated Actors

January 1, 1994

AAAI conference paper describing an experiment in controlling semi-autonomous animated human forms with natural language input and introducing the desktop theater metaphor for interactive direction of autonomous characters.

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US Patent US4838859

January 1, 1987

Patent listing Steve Strassmann as inventor (patent document dated 1987).

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Hairy brushes

January 1, 1986

SIGGRAPH 1986 technical paper on rendering/render techniques (published in the SIGGRAPH proceedings).

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Artificial Trust (collection)

A set of essays and writings exploring AI pathologies, trust, and failure modes of complex systems.

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