Ann McCormick designs learning software at CAPS Mira Studio and serves as Executive Vice President of the company. She has worked with the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA for many years seeking ways of transforming education using technology. At Nueva, children routinely create multimedia projects, surf the net and carry on real world projects. Before joining Nueva, Ann helped Jaron Lanier launch a virtual reality company in 1985.

In 1979 Ann founded The Learning Company, pioneering development of a new kind of playful learning software. Her team won national awards for sixteen products, including Reader Rabbit and Rocky's Boots. With a doctorate from Berkeley, Ann conducted research in poverty area schools throughout the United States and published a monograph on Black Dialect and Reading. She began her career teaching fifth grade in East Buffalo, NY, which inspired her technology interests.