Number of Founded Organizations 1
CB Rank (Person) 384,802

Dr. Kushler co-founded Swype in 2002. Before founding Swype, Dr. Kushler was the VP of R&D at Tegic Communications/AOL Wireless. Tegic, which was also co-founded by Dr. Kushler, developed a very successful text input method for cell phones called "T9" and was acquired by America On-line in 1999. T9 is now licensed on hundreds of

millions of cell phones each year. Dr. Kushler holds 17 US patents, numerous foreign patents, as well as a large number of pending applications. He has an MS in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He also speaks Japanese fluently.

Number of Past Jobs 1
Cliff Kushler has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder and CTO at Swype.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Swype
Co-Founder and CTOSep 2008Oct 2011
Cliff Kushler studied at University of Michigan Law SchoolMichigan State University, and The University of Tokyo.