Senior Research Fellow, Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts Boston
Dan Feldman is a senior research fellow at the Applied Ethics Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a software engineering executive with more than 45 years of experience developing leading edge computing systems in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, health care, and wearable computing. He has served as the senior engineering executive in a number of startups, including two MIT Media Lab spin outs and an early e-health company that received a Computerworld Smithsonian Innovation award. He has served in leadership roles at IBM, Thomson Financial Services, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and KAYAK. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Touchplan.io, where he leads all technical and product operations. He holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Harvard.
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Feb 26, 2021 14:51 pm UTC| Technology
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