From time to time, we will invite guests onto specific episodes of the Semantic Web Gang. Their details will appear here.

Christian Becker

Christian is a member of the DBpedia team, where he contributed DBpedia Mobile, the Marbles Browser and several extractors.

He recently graduated from Freie Universität Berlin and currently works at MES. Previous employers include VerdiSoft (now Yahoo!) and Lufthansa Systems.

Guest on July 2008 show.

David Karger

David is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the EECS department at MIT. His interests include information retrieval (particularly in relation to the Haystack Project) and analysis of algorithms.

Guest on July 2008 show.

Georgi Kobilarov

Georgi is a researcher on Semantic Web technologies who previously worked as a research associate in the Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department at Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, United Kingdom. His current research aims to develop exploratory user interfaces and interaction models for the Semantic Web. He is a student at the Freie Universität Berlin.

As founding member and lead developer of the DBpedia project, he is interested in ways to bootstrap Semantic Web adoption. His research aims to find new ways of exploratory interaction with massive Semantic Web datasets like DBpedia.

Guest on April 2008 show.

Barney Pell

Dr. Pell is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Powerset. For over fifteen years, Barney has pursued groundbreaking technical and commercial innovation in A.I. as a researcher, research manager, business strategist and entrepreneur. He spent 2005 as Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield evaluating early to mid-stage IT and knowledge based companies. Before joining Mayfield, Barney worked for NASA Ames Research Center on two occasions: from 1993-1998 as Project Lead for the Executive component of the prize-winning Remote Agent Experiment; and from 2002-2005 as Area Manager responsible for research in intelligent agents, software architecture, human-centered computing, search, collaborative knowledge management, distributed databases, information integration, spoken dialog systems, and the semantic web. Between 1998 and 2002, Barney worked in technical start-ups: he served as Chief Strategist and Vice-President of Business Development at StockMaster.com, a provider of internet-based stock-market analysis tools, and later as Vice President of Strategy for Whizbang! Labs, a provider of advanced text processing and search engine software. Barney also serves as an advisor or board member to several startup companies and educational nonprofits. Barney holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University.

Guest on May 2008 show.