James Bowery
Judging Committee at Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge
Shenandoah, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bowery is a veteran technologist and innovation catalyst with over three decades of experience creating pioneering systems across networking, VR, space commercialization, and AI research. He helped build some of the earliest networked services and virtual reality gaming (Spasim, Viewtron, PLATO) and later championed prize-driven breakthroughs such as the Hutter Prize that helped accelerate work leading to DeepMind. His work spans secure extranet and federated identity systems at HP, high-speed neural hardware, automated transportation and safety systems at SAIC, and public advocacy that secured the world’s first Ka‑band satellite license. More recently he has focused on climate and energy solutions rooted in photosynthetic CO2 fixation and photobioreactor commercialization. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends deep theoretical thinking (from relation arithmetic to AIXI-inspired ideas) with pragmatic productization and public policy impact. Based in Shenandoah, Iowa, he combines hands-on engineering with a history of seeding high-leverage prizes and startups that change industries.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Iowa
Stackoverflow
91reputation
13kreached
1answer
16questions
Github Skills (200)
excerpt10
alpaca10
neural-network10
video-production10
openshot10
python10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
video-editing10
delimited10
autonomous-agents9
api9
recurrent-neural-networks9
deep-neural-networks9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jabowery/HumesGuillotine
Jul 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
jabowery/delegate
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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