- Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web
- James Hendler
James Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.
- Dan Connolly
Dan Connolly received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, particularly in the consensus-building process, and the Semantic Web. He became involved with distributed hypertext systems and SGML in 1992. With Tim Berners-Lee he was co-editor of the initial Internet Engineering Task Force's draft specification for HTML.
- Ora Lassila
Ora Lassila is a Finnish computer scientist who lives and works as a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area.
- Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems, intelligent interfaces and robotics and is currently working on the theory and applications of intelligent software agents, the semantic web, and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois.
- Frank van Harmelen
Frank van Harmelen is a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His research interests include artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and the semantic web. In 1989, van Harmelen received his Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh for his dissertation on meta-level reasoning. His adviser was Alan Bundy.
- Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association, Technical Director of the EU-funded SEKT project, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards, including position of joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics.
- Carole Goble
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the my Grid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK .
- Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the Sixth Century Chair (part time) in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. She directs the Laboratory for Agents Technology and Semantic Web Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University. Born in Greece, she went to U.S. to pursue advanced education through various scholarships, including a Fulbright.
- Shelley Powers
Shelley Powers is an author, web developer, technology architect, and photographer. She works with and writes about open source, LAMP technologies and web service development, CSS/XHTML design, and the use of these technologies in the semantic web. In addition to being author and co-author of several technology-related books (as well as numerous articles), and a strong supporter of RDF and the semantic web, …
- Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941. He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College. After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new) University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination.
- Jerry Hobbs
Dr. Jerry R. Hobbs (born 25 January 1942) is a prominent researcher in the fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence. He earned his doctor's degree from New York University in 1974 in computer science. He has taught at Yale University and the City University of New York. From 1977 to 2002 he was with the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, …
- Schuyler Erle
Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He also works in the fields of digital cartography, wireless networking, intelligent search engines and the Semantic Web. He is the lead developer of NoCatAuth which is an open source wireless captive portal. Erle grew up in Springfield, PA and after graduating from Springfield High School in 1995, went on to earn his degree at Temple University. He has created the popular games Balance of Power and Squigby.
- Christoph Meinel
Univ.-Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Christoph Meinel is a German computer-science professor. He is the director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam (Germany), which is ranked among top 10 CS-departments in Germany. In his recent research field — Internet- and WWW-technologies — he does research work in semantic web and security engineering.
- Vasant Honavar
Vasant Honavar is an American computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked with Leonard Uhr. Vasant Honavar is a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He heads the Iowa State University Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery.
- Ramanathan V. Guha
Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google. Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, …
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Patrick J. Hayes
Patrick John Hayes or Pat Hayes (21 August 1944) is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. As of March 2006, he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida. Pat Hayes has been an active, prolific, and influential figure in Artificial Intelligence for over five decades. He has a reputation for being provocative but also quite humorous.
- W. Daniel Hillis
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.
- Daniel John Ayers
Daniel John Ayers (born in Tideswell, Derbyshire in 1964) is a Semantic Web advocate, software developer and technical writer who has been published by Wrox Press, Sams and Wiley. He was an active member of the Atom Syndication Format Working Group and is involved in microformats and RDF/OWL as of 2006. In 1980 he was a founding member of the industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions. Currently resident in Tuscany, he is married to Caroline K.
- Sean Mulvihill
13 years sales management experience. Solid, top line performer with vigilant eye for process improvements. Expert communicator able to drive sales traffic to and through the intersection of technology and money. “Dot-com entrepreneur Sean Mulvihill has a salesman’s rapid-patter energy, but a post-bust sense of humility.” - San Jose Business Journal. Also profiled by Entrepreneur.com, NBC TechNow!, The Industry Standard, Silicon Valley Biz Ink (cover story) and Smart Business Magazine.
- Piergiorgio Lucidi
Open Source Software Engineer on content management, content delivery and system integration applications.- JBoss Committer at JBoss for projects dedicated to Portals;- Editor at HTML.it for open source blog oneOpenSource;- Reviewer at Packt Publishing for books about J2EE and Portals.Videogame tester, barcamper, Creative Commons supporter, jazz guitarist.
- Anonymous Spocker
Exceptional technical specialist with an in depth knowledge of all aspects of systems and information management. A Highly developed communicator and recognised authority on Oracle architectures and technologies.
- Jeff Goddard
- Manuel Vila
- Paola Fiore
Environmental Manager, Green Communication Strategist, Corporate Responsibility Consultant, Journalist, Documentarist.
- Daniele Pauletto
Daniele Pauletto Comunication / ICT management at Mt Net / Staff at Tecnalia.it / and Connecting Managers.com ICT teacher at Galileo Galilei - ITALY -
- Eric di Benedetto
Professional investor in software start-ups since 1991.
- Peter Scheir
Peter Scheir University Assistant Tel. : +43 (0)316 873 9267
- Alberto Brandolini
All-round expert on several aspects of software development. From requirements gathering to architecture, system integration, project management, deployment and development process coordination.
- Nicola de Carne
- Anonymous Spocker
- Rachel Lovinger
- Sizhao Yang
- daniela barbosa
An information consultant fascinated by trends in information delivery and helping customers achieve successful information delivery strategies for enterprise users including collaboration with social software and other web 2.0 applications. A highly effective information consultant with a successful track record in delivering cost effective solutions to Fortune 500 clients in the Computers/IT, Consumer Products, Consulting, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical and Financial industry . . .
- Nova Spivack
Nova Spivack Founder and CEO Nova Spivack is a technology visionary and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in pioneering ventures. In 1994, Mr. Spivack co-founded EarthWeb , one of the first Internet companies, where he was Executive Vice-President for Products, Strategy and Marketing. EarthWeb went public in 1999 and resulted in the Nasdaq's largest IPO single-day percentage point gain up to that point, spawning a wave of Tech IPOs.
- Paul Walsh
Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Segala, a specialist in Web Accessibility and mobile content standards compliance. Paul is Segala's W3C advisory committee representative, a member of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Steering Council and Sponsor of the W3C's first incubator activity initiative to develop content labelling standards for the web. He is also Chair of BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), a trade association for the digital industry. Paul was an executive at Eqos, a . . .
- Jacco van Ossenbruggen
- Vitor Lourenco
19yr old Art Director from Brazil.
- Leo Sauermann