Edison Labs began in 2007 as an independent product development lab that returns to the model of Thomas Edison’s own labs. Edison Labs was begun, as a place to explore, play, test and develop new technology that is compelling and exciting. Formed with leading technologist with broad background from Bell Labs, Interval Research, Apple Computer, and many start-up Companies.

The staff at Edison Labs were participants in creating the first video games, personal computers, personal Computer Operating Systems, Broadband Communication technology, 1G/2G/3G and 4G wireless communications, digital TV platforms, new forms of microprocessors, DSP, media and parallel processing IC's, new hand-held mobile communicators, and more.

Jaime Cummins, CEO & Managing Director

He founded Edison Labs and has over 25 years of experience creating and deploying new technology that have generated billions of dollars in product sales over this period. He has been a senior technology and business executive at Apple Computer (led the Mac OS group) , Pacific Bell (led the Interactive TV Engineering), Xilinx (led the Reconfigurable Logic R&D Lab) and several start-ups he co-founded and led, including Solitare Group (Video Games) , Digital Creations (Video Games and Video Effects hardware), QuickSilver Technology (Adaptive Computing Machine technology for mobile and embedded devices), Element CXI (Elemental Computing for embedded devices), and Carpe Media (Steaming Media Ad technology) from technology started at Edison Labs. He has been involved in creating the technology that has changed the world of computing for the last 2 decades. When not at Edison he is preparing for the 2010 International Carpet Fishing competition in Iceland (his personal best is a 40kg cod). See Dilbert cartoon.

Owen Rubin, CTO & Managing Director

Owen co-founded Edison Labs with Jaime, and has over 30 years in technology development and management. He started his career as one of the first five software game designers for Atari, and designed coin-operated games for over 13 years for Atari and Bally Sente. Owen also designed both Macintosh hardware and software at Apple. He was Director of Technology for Pacific Bell, where he helped design and build one of the first digital broadband systems in the US. Following Pacific Bell, Owen was hired by Paul Allen to lead Paul's broadband research for Interval Research, where he did research and prototype development on several innovations in digital TV and broadband devices. After Interval, Owen began a run as a technical executive for a number of different start-up companies in application security, semiconductors, digital TV devices, and advertising related technology.

Linnea Kline, VP Marketing & Business Development

She has over 15 years of experience marketing and training development management experience in technology markets. Linnea started her career in the automatic test equipment industry in marketing where she managed trade shows, events and marketing communications (Schlumberger), marketing operations, communications and customer training groups (LTX) and customer relationship management programs (LTX and Credence Systems). She managed course development teams for SUN Microsystems' Internal Technical Training group where she drove through to completion over 200 training courses. Most recently Linnea worked at Adobe Systems where she managed strategic content and learning programs. Linnea holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Andrew Singer, Chief Scientist & Principal Engineer

Andrew joined Edison Labs to lead its R&D activities and has more than 30 years experience inventing hardware and software technologies and products. His research career began at NYU Medical Center where he created the first medical record text search engine. He earned a PhD in CS from UMass in 1979, by showing how the design of interactive systems could be improved using studies of cognitive psychology and by demonstrating the first abstract mathematical formalism to completely describe such systems. He founded Think Technologies, to develop revolutionary products like the LightspeedC IDE for the Macintosh. As VP of Engineering at Radius, he introduced breakthrough display products like the dual-orientation Pivot. In 1992, he became the first member of Interval Research’s technical staff and was influential in shaping a unique research community throughout its nine-year lifespan. Focused on future wireless technology, his first project created new social media, and wearable devices. Then, as co-leader of Interval’s foundations of computing project, he helped invent new mathematics and programming tools for computing. After Interval, he was CTO and CEO of Rapport Incorporated, creating chips and development tools for reconfigurable computing.

McGruff the Crime Dog

Official crime fighting mascot of Edison Labs renown for his exceptional ability to track down evil doers and criminal malcontents while maintaining his trench coat noir style. I'm McGruff the Crime Dog - world famous for my advice on how to stop crime before it happens, and for my great sense of humor. But seriously, my job is to help people, especially kids, learn how to be safe and make their neighborhood safer.

Something else you should know about me is that I go all over the country to talk to people about how they can take a bite out of crime. So if you see me in your town, come on up and say hi. You can recognize me by my tan trench coat - I never go anywhere without it.

To learn more visit McGruff's site for more info.