He is the lead developer responsible for the captioning technology in all of Google’s video services including YouTube, which serves billions of views daily with captions for millions of videos. Ken was heavily involved with Arpanet/Internet development in the early 1970s after graduating from MIT. He was a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and has worked in various capacities at Transmeta, Oracle, and SRI International; in the latter incarnation he was instrumental in several projects related to telecommunications for the deaf, notably DEAFNET. Recently he has been serving on the FCC’s VPAAC, providing a few cents of advice regarding CVAA implementation.Ken has been totally deaf since age 5 and for too many years had no idea what people were saying on TV. The shows he now has the most trouble resisting are “Futurama” and “Mythbusters”.