Karl Haberl Research Director
Project Darkstar Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
1 Network Drive, Building #2 ubur02-313 Burlington, MA 01803
Karl Haberl is a Research Director at Sun Laboratories in Burlington, Massachusetts. Since joining Sun in 2003, Karl's research portfolio has included projects in Internet security, speech recognition and synthesis, search and information retrieval, machine learning techniques for content-based music recommendation, and systems for distributed communication and collaboration.
Karl's current focus as the Director for Project Darkstar and the Business Director for Project Wonderland is in the area of scalable software client/server technologies for online games, social networking, and virtual environments. 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 worked on all kinds of technology, in roles ranging from technical contributor to 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.
Karl holds BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering.
Outside of work, apart from spending time with his family, Karl's chief activity is as an amateur musician and composer. Karl plays guitar and keyboards in a band for fun and records original music in his home studio.
