Alain T. Rappaport

Dr. Alain T. Rappaport is general manager of health search in the Bing group at Microsoft Corp. Before joining Microsoft, he was founder and CEO of Medstory Inc., a company focused on intelligent search in health and medicine, which Microsoft acquired in 2007.

Before Medstory, Dr. Rappaport was co-founder, president and chief scientist of Neuron Data Inc. (later Blaze Software Inc.), in Palo Alto, Calif., a global leader in artificial intelligence and other business-critical software components serving a wide range of industries, including healthcare.

From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Rappaport also held an appointment as senior advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Office of the Director, Center of Excellence for Information Technology, at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. While at NASA, he focused on Internet computing and other strategic initiatives. He is a founding member of the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference.

After completing his degrees, Dr. Rappaport joined the Robotics Institute at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as a post-doctoral fellow and later adjunct faculty member. He has published in the areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science and neurosciences in major journals and has been a speaker in leading technology and business workshops and conferences.

Dr. Rappaport received his medical degree from the Necker Sick-Children School of Medicine, René Descartes University, and his doctorate in molecular pharmacology from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France.