William Mark

William S. "Bill" Mark is a vice president at SRI International, where he has been in charge of their Information and Computing Sciences Division since 1998.

Early life and education Mark received a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1973, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1976, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career Mark was a co-founder of the company Savoir, which developed software tools for flexible manufacturing. Mark then worked at Lockheed Martin's Palo Alto Research Labs.

In 2018, he was nominated by former US Department of Defense Secretary James Mattis to be a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). The commission filed its final report in October 2021.

Awards and memberships Mark has served on DARPA's Information, Science and Technology Committee and the editorial board of IEEE Computer. and is currently a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology.

Mark was a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that was established in 2018 and issued its final report in March 2021.

He has been a member of the Board at Kasisto since 2014, which is a spin off of SRI International.