Barney is an AI pioneer, start-up investor, and advisor with over 200 investments, bringing advanced technology and big ideas into real applications and markets that change people’s lives. He is currently a Fellow in the Creative Destruction Laboratory, one of the world’s top start-up accelerators.

Barney was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft’s Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing in Artificial Intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.