Ed Bice
Chairman and CEO
Meedan
Ed is the Chairman and founding CEO of Meedan. the world’s first cross-language social networking and social media platform. Ed has published in national press including the NY Times, New Republic, and Mother Jones, and has been interviewed on national and international radio news programs like NPR, BBC, and CBS.
An invited speaker at the 2009 UN Internet Governance Forum, Stanford’s 2005 Online Deliberation conference, the 2006 World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and at the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) 2006 conference.
Ed is a council member of the Middle East Programs and the Arab/US Media Network of the Aspen Institute. Ed has been an invited SBIR grant reviewer at the National Science Foundation in 2008 and 2010. Joi Ito included Ed in his 2008 book Freesouls, portraits of 296 people working to build the open web. Ed and John Shore have co-authored a patent-pending approach to hybrid distributed natural language translation (HDNLT).
Ed attended Carleton College where he received a B.A. in philosophy. When he is not online, Ed cooks, hikes, and skis with his wife and two young boys in Northern California.
*Photo by Joi Ito