Eric Burns: Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Eric Burns has ten years' worth of successful innovation experience in the video-on-demand, distance education and digital library sectors. Eric was the co-inventor of the SlideCentric and Focus courseware projects at Carnegie Mellon University and oversaw the design, development and implementation of both systems. While at CMU, he also spent eight years with the Universal Library Project building massive-scale digital library search and archiving systems. This research led to the creation of a parallel-computing, turn-key digital library search appliance. He went on to become a senior engineer at Microsoft Corp, spending two years helping to lead development of the Books and Academic search engines for Microsoft's Windows Live division. Eric received his Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.