Crouch, Dennis

Dennis Crouch is a law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, specializing in intellectual property and technology law.  He is well known to the IP community as the founder and author of the popular site, Patently-O.  Although a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training, Crouch has been involved with AI and software for decades. His Princeton University undergraduate thesis offered a novel model for neural network design that he termed fractal neural networks and offered an early example of using the massively parallel potential of the internet to facilitate machine learning.