Outside of Google, Dane serves on the board of trustees for the SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific organization whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature, and prevalence of life in the universe. He is a member of the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Advisory Council, helping foster entrepreneurship within the Cornell University network. Dane is also an active investor and advisor in the start-up community, and a maker at heart. He is the co-creator of the Sunborn Rising entertainment universe, and he spends much of his free time on machine learning, robotic vision systems, and natural language processing. He also enjoys photography and helping educational / community-based charities... Before co-founding Positronic, Dane spent nearly a decade at Microsoft in a variety of senior technology and general management positions across web search, desktop search, and communication services like Hotmail. His entrée into Microsoft was also via acquisition, through..