Dr. Trent McConaghy | Ocean Protocol, Ocean Predictoor Founder
Trent McConaghy, Ph. D., is a leading engineer and entrepreneur, renowned for his work on AI to drive Moore's Law in semiconductors, pioneering NFTs, and founding Ocean Protocol for decentralized AI. Today Dr. McConaghy’s focus is Ocean Predictoor, which enables decentralized prediction feeds via AI and Web3. Dr. McConaghy started his career doing AI research for national defense in the 1990s. His first startup (ADA) explored the relation between human creativity and AI-based machine creativity. During his PhD from 2004-2008, Dr. McConaghy found a way to reconcile machine creativity with existing engineering knowledge and his second startup (Solido) leveraged AI to help drive Moore's Law. Solido software, which is used for most modern chip designs, was acquired by Siemens in 2017. His third and current startup is about blockchain applied to art, data and AI, launching the ascribe NFT platform in 2013, BigchainDB blockchain database in 2015 and Ocean Protocol in 2017.
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