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Karl Haberl is a Research Director at Sun Labs in Burlington, Mass. Since joining Sun in 2003, Karl has directed a number of important projects and research activities, including Internet Security, Policy Languages, Speech Technologies, Advanced Search Technologies, Search Inside the Music, Meeting Central, Collaborative Environments, Neuromancer (large-scale distributed systems), and Darkstar (Sun Game Server). Karl's involvement with these projects demonstrates his passion for creating leading-edge technologies to bring bottom-line benefit to Sun and serve the needs of Sun's customers, both now and in the future.

Karl came to Sun from BBN Technologies, where he spent seventeen years working on all kinds of technology, including digital signal processing, neural networks, networked simulation, expert systems, intelligent tutoring systems, data analysis software, automatic speech recognition, and speech-enabled user interfaces.

Over the course of his career, Karl has served as a technical contributor, technical lead, project manager, product manager, director of engineering, and business unit leader. He has been on the product side of tech transfers from research, successfully piloting advanced technology programs from R&D all the way through large-scale in-network deployments.

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