Stan Kugell is an American investor, entrepreneur, inventor, and computer scientist.^[7] He is current or former director of over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards.^[7] He remains active advising technology entrepreneurs privately and as a Mentor at the Harvard i-Lab.^[7][8][9] He was a research scientist at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab,^{[dubious – discuss][10][11][12]} where he invented Dired.^[13][14][12] At the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center he and Ed McCreight built the first voicemail system.^[7][12] He co-founded Javelin Software and was primary designer of its user interface.^[15][16] He is inventor or co-inventor of seven U.S. and international patents and applications. ^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]} He co-hosted Kugell & McLaughlin, a nationally syndicated political talk radio program,^{[citation needed]} and served as a commentator on the public radio show Marketplace^{[citation needed]} and on the Pacifica Radio Network.^{[citation needed]}

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