Roy Feinson

Roy Feinson is a South African born software engineer, author, and artist who patented the first fully functional predictive text system that included disambiguation and local dictionary storage.

[1] Founder and President of EmergeX.AI, Doubletake Images LLC, and Orb Reality LLC; D.C. based software firms, Feinson holds a number of computer-technology patents and his scientific applications deal with artificial life, artificial intelligence and forensic image analysis and his model of animal vision was recently presented to scientists at N.I.S.T.

His books have been translated into ten different languages[2] including Mandarin, Japanese, Czech, Hebrew and French, and has been featured on CNN, The Dr. Phil Show[3] and CBS The Talk[4][5][6][7] His novel theory of animal vision, The Zebra's Stripes, was presented to scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in 2013[8] and addresses many unanswered questions in the field of animal behavior and camouflage.

In 2007, Feinson was commissioned to create a series of 38 large-scale mosaic works for Disney's 50th anniversary's celebration, the Happiest Homecoming on Earth.

[9] The artwork was unveiled by Quincy Jones, Joss Stone and Recording Academy President Neil Portnow who called Feinson "a true artistic innovator, and.. renaissance man".