About IQStrategix

The IQStrategix' team mission is to develop and deliver the world’s most advanced cognitive technology to drive the global knowledge economy

Based on a Empirical Knowledge Science

KNOWLEDGE = COGNITION + DATA (facts) + INFORMATION (about facts)

IQStrategix, Inc. is a B2B cognitive knowledge software engineering company. The company’s flagship service is called IQxCloud. IQxCloud is designed to represent the underlying cognitive intelligence that enables organizations to function, and their teams to do their jobs. This includes the proprietary structures, strategies, policies, procedures, tasks and process that distinguish each company from every other company. IQxCloud mimics the way the human brain reasons, surfacing concepts and ontological threads along with relevant resources such as documents, audio and video clips, maps, presentations, and other content that are retrieved within an organization's Intranet, or remotely from across the Internet. New and experienced users find IQxCloud easy to use because knowledge content is organized around universal patterns-of-thought that are presented in textual and graphical flows that people can naturally understand and use. Knowledge content is effortless to find and easy understand and apply.

A Brief History Behind IQStrategix, Inc.

Foundations in Knowledge Science

IQStrategix was founded on January 3, 2014. It's co-founders are Dennis L. Thomas, Martha Nawrocki, and Russell Henderson. Each had the opportunity to work with and learn from Dr. Richard L. Ballard, a UC Berkeley experimental physicist, While an Associate Professor with UC, Irvine's physics department, and co-founder of UC, Irvine's Computer Science Department, Ballard received a citation from the National Science Foundation for the "First application of artificial intelligence to conceptual learning" (1975), related to the New Worlds Science Simulation and Dialog System. The NSF/UCI provided the systems architecture used to teach 1000+ students/yr for 9 years, deployed ultimately to 23 universities, written in assembly macros and Fortran.

Ballard later worked as a senior software scientist on fifty projects of national importance for the DoD, its military branches, NASA, DEA, FAA, and the Office of the White House. As a result of working with Ballard each Founder developed a drive to develop and market an intelligent knowledge platform using a modern language platform, that was a predecessor to today's Natural Language Understanding systems.

Nawrocki worked with Ballard for ten years as the Master Knowledge Engineer with Ballard's company, Knowledge Research, Inc. There, she was the knowledge engineer for many of the projects Ballard conducted on behalf of Nichols Research and Sierra Pacific Research.

Thomas worked with Ballard full-time from 2004-2008 focusing on the development of an advanced knowledge management system that could fluidly interact with people using common language. Ballard passed in January 2009. In 2014, Thomas founded IQStrategix, Inc. along with Nawrocki and Henderson to develop today's current IQxCloud knowledge platform. That technology was conceptually engineering by Thomas in 2012-2013.

Neuroscience Validation

Through the pioneering work of evidenced-based neuroscience research coupled with the insights that Ballard' gained in the 1970s -1990s, it became clear that pure logic-based technologies were too limited to resolve the n-dimensional dynamics of human thought. A new rational reasoning system was necessary to represent common language and its conceptual meanings The systems interface also had to operate declaratively like the human brain, at least on the surface, to achieve fluid human/machine interactivity. This, as Thomas explains, "is as if the technology were an associate or subject matter expert on most any subject." As a result, IQxCloud is considered to be a third-wave cognitive knowledge platform because it is designed to represent and share the conceptual intelligence that enables organization's to work.

Clinical Psychology Validations

Clinical psychology has validated that our brain's identify and store what are called "cognitive schemas," or "patterns-of-thought," as a means of summarizing the huge quantities of sensory and cognitive data our brains process on a daily basis. As an example, children between the ages of one and five experiment with and learn functional cognitive schemas through play that are described as containment, enveloping, orientation, positioning, rotational, trajectory, transformation, transporting, and correcting schemas. Thereafter, regardless of country or language, we also learn common practical cognitive schemas such as compositions, taxonomies, arrays, and sequences, to name a few. IQxCloud is designed to not only model many of these cognitive schemas, but to represent the context, meaning, and purpose of the language used to populate them. Combined, they represent concepts and ideas.

The Co-Founder Team

Driven by vision, an ambitious development mission, and practical business principles.

Dennis L. Thomas - CEO

Dennis L Thomas, CoFounder, CEO - has 40 years of business operations, marketing, corporate sales, and technical expertise. Thomas has more than 18 years of direct experience with knowledge system research, design, and development. He is the conceptual designer of IQxCloud, a published author and speaker at innovation and Knowledge Management conferences. B.A. UC, Irvine

Russell Henderson - Software Development

Russell A. Henderson, CoFounder - provided leadership in the areas of software development and technology operations and support with a 30-year background in Enterprise Content Management and Knowledge Systems. Henderson has profitably delivered innovative software solutions for business (SMB through Fortune 500), government, and consumer markets. His roles included director, corporate officer, management, operations, sales, public speaker, designer, software architect and engineer.

Martha Nawrocki - Master Knowledge Engineering

More than 25 years knowledge engineering experience with projects of national importance with US Government Agencies to include DoD and its branches, NASA, and Office of the White House. Principal knowledge modeler and author of knowledge base products and physical and electronic user manuals. Martha authors the company's training manuals and provides primary QA of IQxCloud.

Julie A. Witherspoon - Business Operations

Julie brings more than 23 years experience to IQStrategix with her background in business operations, management and sales. Julie is also a certified Master Knowledge Engineer and manager of IQStrategix' concept library development team.