Cindy Mason, PhD, is a Research Associate at Stanford University and former CTO and Chief Architect of a financial services company in Woodside, California, USA. Dr. Mason has extensive experience working with compliance automation technologies in a variety of government and corporate settings involving extreme data analysis for structured, unstructured, and sensed data. She has worked with a variety of Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies and government agencies on applications involving data integrity, integration, and feature extraction. Dr. Mason received the award for Outstanding Contribution to the the Field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence from the American Association of Artificial Intelligence for innovative work on feature detection and data integrity in large distributed databases. She can be reached at cmason at steam.stanford.edu.