http://www.ua.com/profile.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Michael Fredkin and Henry Minsky founded Universal Access Inc. as a partnership in June 1994. They incorporated in October 1994 in Santa Barbara, California.
Fredkin and Minsky forecasted a direction of Internet growth which has been confirmed in the sudden demand for tools to manage electronic information, commerce and entertainment.
Current product development at Universal Access Inc. addresses these areas with the technical expertise, creativity and confidence to create original solutions to the demands of a new technology.
The founders' focus on establishing immediate widespread accessibility of the rapidly growing information resources has brought international interest in WebFaX, their first product. Minsky's technical skills combined with Fredkin's world-class negotiation skills have produced a significant development partnership with FaxBack, Inc., a leader in the fax-on-demand industry.
Both founders and senior staff have worked with key figures in the academic and commercial communities that have brought the Internet and network technology to the forefront of the ``Information Age''.
Michael Fredkin; Co-Founder, CEO, President
Michael Fredkin has been working in the
computer industry since 1980. He served as a financial and
technical planner for computer companies including Capitol
Technologies Inc., high technology venture capitol consulting group
(Boston); Reliable Water Inc., design and manufacture of
expert-system-based desalination system (Boston); Fredkin Enterprises
S.A., import/export venture establishing availability of personal
computers in Eastern Europe (Boston).
His business experience has consistently been within the leading edge arenas of technology and is manifest in his timely assessments of the new technical, commercial and legal situations arising from the non-linear growth of the technology.
Henry Minsky; Co-Founder, CTO, Principal Engineer
Henry Minsky holds his Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering (Computer Science) from M.I.T. His professional interests
include Networks and Communications, Machine Intelligence, VLSI design
systems, Computer Architecture. He is on an extended leave from his
doctoral degree program while co-founding Universal Access Inc. He
has been a technical consultant for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
since 1989, and was formerly member of the Technical Staff of Reliable
Water Inc. (Boston), Symbolics Inc.(Palo Alto and Cambridge) and Atari
Inc.(Sunnyvale and Cambridge Research Centers). He is currently
designing and developing network access technologies for Universal
Access Inc.
Minsky continues his longstanding relationship with the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for Computer Science and Xerox Palo Alto Research Centers.
Minsky is an exemplary engineer and programmer with the academic and professional experience to turn science fiction into reality. His preliminary designs and development of interactive scenarios for the Internet have already generated a great deal of interest from the on-line community.
Juliana Minsky; Vice President of Marketing
Juliana Minsky joined Universal Access Inc. after a five year
administrative position at The University of Washington Department of
Computer Science and Engineering in Faculty Recruiting and Grant
administration. Industry experience includes establishing offices and
administrative procedures for start-up technlogy corporations Atari
Cambridge Research (Boston) and Fredkin Enterprises S.A. (Boston).
She is also co-founder and owner of a modern cafe and art gallery in
Seattle since 1991. During a three year active role, she
curated, promoted and directed sales for more than 30 art shows.
As information technology becomes a vital commodity, Minsky brings the
creative approach now necessary to communicate between the industry and a
broad public.
Brian J. Fox; Senior Engineer
Brian Fox brings to Universal Access Inc. extensive technical
experience in designing, building and maintaining software and
heterogeneous systems. As employee number two of the Free Software
Foundation at M.I.T., he authored several important software packages
enjoying world wide use today, including BASH, GNU Finger, portions of
Emacs, and the Texinfo documentation system. Fox has received an
incomparable education working alongside scientists from
internationally reknowned computer science laboratories, including
Caltech's Dr. Christof Koch, Dr. Oliver Guenther at the
F.A.W. (Germany), and HIP-ATR Labs in Kyoto Japan, with Dr. Ed Gamble.
Most recently Fox consulted as co-system designer and implementor on the Wells Fargo Internet On-line Banking project, an ambitious project to implement secure user-level banking over the World Wide Web. Wells Fargo is now the first bank in the world to offer such Internet Banking.
Fox has shared his knowledge in teaching gifted elementary school students, high-school students, and adult education classes in computer science in the Brookline, Massachusetts Public Schools system.