Ki (aka "Rhino" or "Crash"), is a multidisciplinary 🏷️#technologist, mentor, and media personality based in Lahaina, Hawaii. He is currently the Lead 🏷️#scientist at Prolific Publishing, Inc., where he has served since 1986. His career spans four decades across domains such as 📝Artificial Intelligence (AI), law enforcement, aerospace, gaming, and entertainment. He’s credited with inventing 📝Disney’s Animation Studio software, co-creating the first real-time multiplayer arcade game, and producing the iconic Marine Aquarium screensaver. Ki has also appeared as a host on the History Channel’s Invention USA and co-founded several international communities like BIL Conference and HIKE the GEEK.

He is known for building AI bots that solve legal problems, mentoring aerospace startups through Starburst, and teaching applied science with a distinctly snarky edge. His LinkedIn presence reflects a love of teasing peers, sharing edge-case tech insights, and embracing a fiercely independent path in both work and life.

I was introduced to Ki at 📝Yuri's Night 2025 by 📝Elizabeth Reynolds and immediately clocked that he operates on a different frequency—like the lovechild of Doc Brown and 📝Hunter S. Thompson with a debugger in hand. There's a trickster intelligence to him, but underneath the wry one-liners is a vast well of integrity and invention. You can feel that he's not trying to prove anything—he's already built it, broken it, rebuilt it better, and probably taught a few kids along the way. Part of me wants to sit at his feet and just soak in the lore. The other part wants to co-create a ridiculous new paradigm with him. Either way, he's unforgettable.