Biography:Kurt Bollacker
Kurt Bollacker is an American computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Bollacker spent time as a biomedical research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center where worked on electro-cardiography.[1][2] He is co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool[3][4] which was produced while he was a visiting researcher at the NEC Research Institute.
During his tenure as Technical Director of the Internet Archive, Bollacker lead the work to create The Wayback Machine. While Chief Scientist at Metaweb Technologies he was key contributor to the development of Freebase.[5][6] After Metaweb, Bollacker worked at Applied Minds and as a consulting Data Scientist.[7][8]
Bollacker is a dedicated activist who is involved with multiple non-profit organizations. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Common Crawl Foundation [9] For several years he has pursued research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the non-profit Long Now Foundation.[10]
References
- ↑ Hillsley, Russell E.; Bollacker, Kurt D.; Simpson, Edward V.; Rollins, Dennis L.; Yarger, Michael D.; Wolf, Patrick D.; Smith, William M.; Ideker, Raymond E. (1995). "Alteration of Ventricular Fibrillation by Propranolol and Isoproterenol Detected by Epicardial Mapping with 506 Electrodes" (in en). Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 6 (6): 471–485. doi:10.1111/j.1540-8167.1995.tb00420.x. ISSN 1540-8167. PMID 7551316.
- ↑ Bollacker, K.D.; Simpson, E.V.; Johnson, G.A.; Walcott, G.P.; Kavanagh, K.M.; Smith, W.M.; Ideker, R.E. (1991-10-31). "A Cellular Automata Three-dimensional Model of Ventricular Cardiac Activation". Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Volume 13: 1991. pp. 627–628. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.1991.684115. ISBN 0-7803-0216-8.
- ↑ "About CiteSeer". http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/about/team.
- ↑ Bollacker, Kurt D.; Lawrence, Steve; Giles, C. Lee (1998). "CiteSeer: An autonous Web agent for automatic retrieval and identification of interesting publications". Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents - AGENTS '98. ACM. pp. 116–123. doi:10.1145/280765.280786. ISBN 0897919831. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.33.4795.
- ↑ Bollacker, Kurt; Evans, Colin; Paritosh, Praveen; Sturge, Tim; Taylor, Jamie (2008). "Freebase: a collaboratively created graph database for structuring human knowledge". In SIGMOD Conference: 1247–1250.
- ↑ Slawski, Bill (2010-07-17). "Google Gets Smarter with Named Entities: Acquires MetaWeb" (in en-US). http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/07/google-gets-smarter-with-named-entities-acquires-metaweb/.
- ↑ Big Data Giant Joins InfoChimps to Save the World's Structured Information
- ↑ Yang, Dennis (2011-01-03). "Welcome Kurt Bollacker to the Infochimps Team!". http://blog.infochimps.com/2011/01/03/welcome-kurt-bollacker-to-the-infochimps-team/.
- ↑ "Our Team – Common Crawl" (in en-US). https://commoncrawl.org/about/team/.
- ↑ "Kurt Bollacker, Digital Research Director - The Long Now". http://longnow.org/people/staff/kurt42/.
External links
- U.T. Austin student page for Kurt Bollacker
- CiteSeer
- Bollacker's article in American Scientist "Avoiding a Digital Dark Age"
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