Dr. Dean Allemang specializes in innovative applications of knowledge technology. He was awarded his PhD in AI in 1990, worked at five different AI labs in Europe between 1990-1996, co-founded a company in the mid-90s that tried to invent the Semantic Web when the standards were just a gleam in the eye of a few W3C folks. He was winner of the Swiss Technology Prize twice, and has filed two patents on the application of graph matching algorithms to the problems of semantic information interchange. As an internationally recognized expert in the Semantic web, he participated in the review board for the Digital Enterprise Research Institute-the world's largest Semantic Web research institute. He leads TopQuadrant's successful TopMIND training series, from which he drew much of the inspiration for his recent book (co-authored with Prof. Jim Hendler), Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist. 
All organizations, including multinational corporations and government agencies, face a common problem of enterprise data integration. Obviously, large-scale sources of the problem stem from mergers and acquisitions. When a large company is formed from other pieces, each brings with it...Feb. 12, 2009 12:19 PM EST Reads: 1,553
In the early days of the Web, we were thrilled when we could find addresses and phone numbers of commercial establishments. As more sophisticated Web sites started using databases behind the scenes, we came to expect a page that included all the addresses for each branch of a chain in ...
