Edward Jung
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Intellectual Ventures
Edward Jung is co-founder and managing director of Intellectual Ventures, a firm dedicated to the funding, creation and commercialization of invention. He is also responsible for several development projects in Asia. Before Intellectual Ventures, Jung was chief architect and advisor to executive staff at Microsoft Corporation.
During his 10 years at Microsoft, Jung managed projects relating to Web platforms, intelligent operating systems, adaptive user interfaces and artificial intelligence. Jung co-founded many Microsoft teams including Windows NT, Microsoft Research and web services. Before joining Microsoft in February 1990, Jung ran the Deep Thought Group where he worked on neural network chips for learning and parallel computation.
An avid inventor, Jung holds more than 60 patents and has more than 200 patents pending. His patents are in a variety of areas including biomedical research instruments, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and neural networks, and he holds several fundamental patents in object technology, distributed operating systems and data analysis. Jung's biomedical research work has been published in several journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Biochemistry.
Currently, Jung is a strategic advisor to Harvard Medical School where he advises the dean of research on issues relating to intellectual property and establishing future institutes. He is on the strategic advisory committee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he provides advice on the future of healthcare. He is also a member of the science advisory board of the Institute for Systems Biology, where he advises the founder on topics such as bioinformatics and the impact of new technology on biological sciences.
Jung is personally committed to several non-profit projects involving technology and science education, and he works with the Asia Pacific Federation, the Aspen Institute, the China Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization. He is also a founding sponsor of TechSoup.org (www.techsoup.org), a “one-stop resource” for non-profits who need advice on technology products and services.