Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Blade Kotelly
Lecturer
Blade is the Chief Designer at Endeca Technologies, a Cambridge MA based search and information access software technology company, where he focuses on next-generation Endeca user-experiences.
Blade's formal background is in human-factors, and he's worked on the design of a variety of products for the Fortune 500 including the first clam-shell pagers for Motorola, hundreds of speech-recognition systems and websites.
Blade also wrote the book on speech-recognition interface design (Addison Wesley, 2003), The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice and his work and thoughts have been featured in publications including The New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, and on media including TechTV, NPR, and the BBC.
For the past 5 years, Blade has taught user-experience design course at Tufts University and is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University and Harvard University.
