Paul Allen

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Biography

Mr. Paul Allen serves as the Founder of Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence. Mr. Paul Allen is a Co-Founder of Allen Institute. He was a Co-Founder of Microsoft in 1975. He is also the founder and serves as chairman of Vulcan Inc. In 2014, he founded the Allen Institute for Cell Science and its inaugural project, the Allen Cell Observatory, which will accelerate disease research by creating predictive cell models. He completed his Degree in Computer Science from Washington State University in 1974. Allen is included among the world's leading philanthropists who have pledged to give the majority of their fortunes to charity and philanthropic ventures. During his lifetime, he founded several non-profit scientific institutes to accelerate important areas of human health and technology. In 2003, he founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science to accelerate understanding of the human brain in health and disease. A decade later, he launched the Allen Institute for AI to explore critical questions in artificial intelligence. In 2014, he founded the Allen Institute for Cell Science which uses diverse technologies and approaches at a large scale to study the cell and its components as an integrated system. In 2016, he introduced The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group to identify and foster new ideas in bioscience around the world, and in 2018 he founded the Allen Institute for Immunology to improve how we diagnose, treat and prevent immune-related diseases.