Mark Stephen Meadows (born September 28, 1968) is an American author, inventor, artist and researcher at NASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions.
[1][2][3][4][5] In addition to inventing software, writing books and developing artwork, Meadows is also known for his worldly adventures, specifically for hitchhiking to Baghdad in 2003, interviewing terrorists and sailing voyages.
In 2001 he opened a gallery in Paris where he sold his paintings for two years before spending time in the Waag Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a researcher.
In 2010 Meadows founded Botanic Technologies, a US corporation dedicated to developing conversational avatars for use in education and video games.
Botanic Technologies spun off several other companies, the most notable being SEED Token, a blockchain organization which offered natural language processing and animation libraries for conversational characters.