Email George Cross - georgecross@acm.org

Short Professional Biography

George R. Cross, PhD is the Chief Technology Officer at A+America, a pre-IPO startup based in Littleton, MA that operates the school fundraising portal www.technology4kids.com   He previously was CTO at Information Technology Systems, Inc., an Internet Service Provider and consulting firm specializing in database-driven web sites. Prior to that he was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff  at GTE Labs in Waltham in telecommunications service design and Principal Scientist at the Contel Technology Center in Chantilly, Virginia in the knowledge-based systems applications group. He has taught Computer Science at Washington State University and Louisiana State University and has done research in Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and Image Processing. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University.