- From: Deborah McGuinness <dlm@KSL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 17:56:47 -0800
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
- CC: dlm@KSL.Stanford.EDU
I am Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of Stanford University. My main research interests are in representing and reasoning with knowledge and applying this research on the web and beyond. I have been in knowledge representation, information organization and retrieval, and net-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R) research and applications since I first joined Bell Labs in 1980. I helped design the initial AT&T videotex offering (in my opinion, the first real “web” service effort) and also helped generate the North American presentation level protocol standard (NAPLPS) in the early 80s. We trialed net-based real estate services, greeting card exchanges, interactive games, simple ontology backed searches, etc. to find that at least the US was not ready in the early 80s for such services. Times have clearly changed ! I did my PhD while on staff at Bell labs and have spent about 16 years in knowledge representation research (with stints out into industry to deploy research). I have a long history in Description Logics – being a co-author of CLASSIC and NeoCLASSIC (some of the longest lived and used description logics in existence) and have been the main liaison for the CLASSIC group into the applications world helping to field a family of configurators that has had over a 10 year deployment history with 17 individual configurators deployed at AT&T and Lucent and also fielding over 10 knowledge-enhanced search applications (based on my research work on FindUR) at AT&T and Quintillion. A driving force of my KR&R research is in creating knowledge representation infrastructure (languages, environments, extensions, publicity, whatever…) that allows knowledge representation and reasoning to impact the main world (and not just the research world). This has lead to my research on languages (like CLASSIC, NeoCLASSIC, OIL, DAML-ONT, DAML+OIL, …) explaining reasoning systems [1], querying frame systems and pruning object presentations [2], tutorials for DL and frame systems [3], ontology evolution environments [4], making KR&R systems more usable in practice [5], … I like to balance my work between research, making KR&R research usable and have impact, and getting KR&R research out into the real world. My consulting business does a little of all three, but more of the latter. VerticalNet’s OntoBuilder/OntoServer is one result of the third emphasis. I moved to Stanford in 1998 where I focused more on frame-based representation systems and more government work while being the technical project leader for Stanford’s knowledge systems laboratory in DARPA’s high performance knowledge base project, DARPA’s rapid knowledge formation project, and most recently DARPA’s agent markup language project. I am co-author of Stanford’s ontology evolution environment (Chimaera). I am a co-editor/author of DAML-ONT and I helped bring together the European (largely OIL-based) community into the DAML project ultimately resulting in DAML+OIL. I am also one of the co-editors/authors of the webont submission to w3 based on our EU/US joint committee work on markup languages. More info can be found on my home page: www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm My main airport is San Francisco, California (but San Jose California is also good). (This would also be a good airport for Jonathan Dale and Stefan Decker and also for the rep to be appointed by HP Palo alto.) <apt:Airport rdf:about="http://www.megginson.com/exp/id/airports/KSFO"> <apt:icao>KSFO</apt:icao> <apt:name>San Francisco, San Francisco International Airport, CA, United States</apt:name> <apt:iata>SFO</apt:iata> <apt:latitude>37-37-11N</apt:latitude> <apt:longitude>122-21-53W</apt:longitude> <apt:elevation>26M</apt:elevation> </apt:Airport> [1] explanation: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/classic/explain.html, http://www.research.att.com/~dlm/papers/explain-abstract.html [2] querying/pruning/matching: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/kr96-abstract.html http://www3.oup.co.uk/logcom/hdb/Volume_09/Issue_03/090411.sgm.abs.html [3]CLASSIC tutorials/CLASSIC: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/classic/papers/ClassTut/ClassTut.html, http://www.bell-labs.com/project/classic/papers/NeoTut/NeoTut.html CLASSIC: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/classic/ [4]Ontology environments: chimaera: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/ collaborative topic builder for FindUR: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/iccs00-abstract.html [5] more usability/reduction to practice: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/aij99-abstract.html http://www.research.att.com/~dlm/papers/use-final-abstract.html -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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