Partner and Director of Research
Accenture Technology Laboratories
Anatole Gershman joined Accenture Technology Labs in 1989 and in 1997 became its overall Director of Research. Under his leadership, research at the laboratories is focusing on early identification of potential business opportunities and the design of innovative applications for the home, commerce and work place of the future. These include electronic commerce, high-performance virtual enterprise, knowledge management, and human performance support. To achieve these goals, the laboratories are conducting research in the areas of ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, interactive multimedia, information access and visualization, intelligent agents, and simulation and modeling.
Prior to joining Accenture, Anatole spent over 15 years conducting research and building commercial systems based on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language processing technology. He held R&D positions at Coopers & Lybrand, Cognitive Systems, Inc., Schlumberger, and Bell Laboratories. In 1997, Anatole was named among the top 100 technologists in the Chicago area by Crain's Chicago Business. In 2000, Industry Week named Anatole one of the "R&D stars to watch."
Anatole studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow State Pedagogical
University and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in
1979.