Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and entrepreneur.

[5] He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award[10] and author of the best-selling book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.

[11] He has been featured in major news publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

[12][13][14] Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

[1] While at Stanford he wrote the database backend for the first personal computer natural language query system that became the first product of Symantec, called Q&A.

[3] AT&T Corporation became a major investor in the company, using GO's technology to develop the EO Personal Communicator, the world's first smart phone.

[25] OnSale auctioned items primarily in the computer sector, namely products from manufacturers that included AT&T, Apple, Packard-Bell, Sony, Compaq, and Dell.

[25] The company expanded its offerings to include sporting goods, jewelry, clothing, artwork, electronics and specialty foods.

He is a Fellow at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and teaches History and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Science Department.

[29] Kaplan made a $500,000 gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2001, to endow a chair in honor of faculty member Aravind K.