Jans Aasman
Franz Inc.
Biographie: Jans Aasman started his career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his PhD in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver behavior using Lisp and Soar. He has spent most of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. From 1995 to 2004, he was also a part-time professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft. Jans is currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of commercial, persistent, and scalable RDF database products that provide the storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling capabilities for Semantic Web applications.
Charles Fillmore
University of California Berkeley, USA
Biographie: Charles J. Fillmore is a retired professor of Linguistics (University of California, Berkeley) who has been working since 1997 on the computational lexicography project called FrameNet (at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley). He earned his doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Michigan in 1960, he taught at the Ohio State University in the 60’s and at UC Berkeley since 1971, after one year (1970-71) at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences at Stanford. His writings have been mainly on questions of grammar and lexical semantics. His work has touched on issues of deixis, lexicography, case grammar, frame semantics, construction grammar. Information about FrameNet can be found at http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/.
Marko Grobelnik
Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenija
Biographie: Marko Grobelnik is an expert in the areas of analysis of large amounts of complex data with the purpose to extract useful knowledge. In particular, the areas of expertise comprise: Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Link Analysis, and Data Visualization as well as more integrative areas such as Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence. Apart from research on theoretical aspects of data analysis techniques he has considerable experience in the field of practical applications and development of business solutions based on the innovative technologies.
Craig A. Knoblock
University of Southern California, USA
Biographie: Craig A. Knoblock is a Senior Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute, a unit of the University of Southern California (USC), and a Research Professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Computer Science Department. Dr. Knoblock also is a founder and Chief Scientist of Fetch Technologies, a web integration solutions provider, and of Geosemble Technologies, which develops geospatial information solutions.
At the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), Dr. Knoblock leads a team of about 20 researchers, staff and students in developing intelligent techniques for rapid, efficient information integration. He focuses on constructing distributed, integrated applications from online sources through information extraction, source modeling, record linkage, constraint reasoning and other technologies for geospatial and bioinformatics data integration.
Dr. Knoblock is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Distinguished Scientist of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and past President of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). He has served on the Senior Program Committee of the National Artificial Intelligence Conference, among others, and is conference chair for the 2011 International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI).
Dr. Knoblock has published Generating Abstraction Hierarchies (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), along with more than 200 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. He also has been the primary advisor for more than a dozen Ph.D. students.
Dr. Knoblock was awarded his Bachelor of Science degree by Syracuse University, and his MasterÕs and Ph.D. by Carnegie Mellon University, all in computer science. He resides in Los Angeles, where he commutes by bicycle and referees kidsÕ soccer games.
Markus Strohmaier
Faculty of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology, Austria
Biographie: Markus Strohmaier is an Assistant Professor at the Knowledge Management Institute, Faculty of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology with a research interest in Web-Science, Social Computing, Agent Modeling, Theories of (Social) Networks and Data Mining.
Before that, Markus was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, Canada in 2006/2007, and a senior/junior researcher at Know-Center Graz, Austria. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Graz Unniversity of Technology. Markus has published more than 50 articles in competitive conferences and journals, including the World Wide Web (WWW), Hypertext, and SocialCom conference series as well as the Information Processing & Management journal, the Journal of Knowledge Management and other journals. He was a visiting researcher at (XEROX) PARC in 2010/11, and a Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen in 2009. He is Principal Investigator and/or Co-PI of several large research grants and projects, and his research group has received numerous awards including best paper nominations, best poster awards and best PhD paper prizes. Markus is a founding co-chair of the SIGWEB “Social Media” working group and member of the editorial board of two journals.
Lotfi A. Zadeh
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Biographie: LOTFI A. ZADEH is a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).
Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT and Columbia University. He held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT, Cambridge, MA; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; AI Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning.
Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Science & Technology and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Achievement Award, the SOFT Scientific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2001 Allen Newell Award, the Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Civitate Honoris Causa by Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary, the V. Kaufmann Prize, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF), the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Wall of Fame, other awards and twenty-six honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over sixty journals.
