about us
The idea of SIMULATED CONVERSATIONS was born at the George Mason University in Virginia, in their TV station during the creation of their first Distant Learning courses. The picture on the left is Professor Mose during one of his early Distance Learning classes. Each lecture (40/semester) was broadcast several times each week, allowing students to easily record the lectures for repeated viewing. Students could also borrow copies of each recorded lecture from the University library. To enhance the image of the University, our group also conducted question and answer interviews with interesting teachers and University administrators, which were broadcast on cable television.
This service, initially called the Memory Project, was developed by faculty and students at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. As an early version of distance learning, our group produced classroom educational videos, seen by students when shown on the GMU cable TV station. The experience initiated the idea of making modern interactive conversations possible.
Distance Learning courses and celebrity interviews are now widely used on news and social media platforms. Our group became fascinated with the idea of creating a platform that could use modern technology to send out business, social, family and other categories of information privately. We realized that any source, from an individual up to a large organization could create a message to few or many designated recipients. The comment could also be securely available to a few or to many all over the planet, essentially forever. It seemed reasonable that the creators of messages could have a purpose in creating the message. The comments could carry life-changing information or the insight to particular topics. The topics could contain information about opinions, advice, predictions, experiences. From this came the idea that someone seeking these answers might prefer to see a particular person speaking the answers.
The experience initiated the idea of making modern interactive conversations possible.
Douglas Mose - A professor of science in colleges and universities.
Several years ago, I found that I could not recall many old memories. Writing down facilitated more memories. However, recalling my parents revealed that I never knew anything about their life "before me." The same for my grandparents. But I had immensely enjoyed stories told by my wife's parents, about their life experiences and of their parents. How I would enjoy enjoy those conversations again. Commenting on that to friends, we started the Memory Project, part of the Center for Basic and Applied Science.
Charles Chrosniak - Technology Expert and Naturalist
I have conducted research and been published in numerous scientific journals. I have been an expert witness in environmental and technology cases. I worked, as a consultant in Hydrogeology and have been an expert at measurement and remediation environmental hazards. I design, implement and maintain computer and web-based systems. My hobbies are astronomy, rock, mineral and fossil collecting.
Edward Mose - An entrepreneur in hazard testing & remediation, land management, and combustion tech.
Through an entrepreneurial interest, I started an environmental testing and remediation service. Meeting a wide variety of people provided opportunities to add property and land management, combustion technology innovation, and the requisite international travel. It has become abundantly clear that sharing these ideas and experiences can become extremely rewarding.
