Other leading contributions started with the first networked virtual reality gaming system (Spasim), the first mass market network information service (Viewtron), the first prize for rocketry leading ultimately to the Ansari X-Prize, the first federated login, authentication and authorization system for web-based customer accounts (HP), the first reliance on top-down universal artificial intelligence (AIXI) for natural language understanding (Hutter Prize), and what may have been (unknown due to secrecy requirements in this area) the first high frequency cryptocurrency arbitrage system.

Public life includes leading commercialization of space launch services, testimony before Congress on privatization of space launch services and the first Ka-band communication satellite license issued by the FCC.