Jans Aasman
Franz Inc., USA
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.
John Domingue
The Open University, UK
Biographie: Prof. Dr. John Domingue is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University and the President of STI International, a semantics focused networking organisation with just under 50 institutional members. He has published over 150 refereed articles in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and the Web and his current work is focused on how semantic technology can automate the management, development and use of Web services. Currently he serves as the Scientific Director of SOA4All a 13M Euro project which aims at creating a Web of billions of services. Prof. Domingue is also Chair of the Steering Committee for the European Semantic Web Conference Series, and Co-Chair of the Conceptual Models of Services Working Group within STI.
Within the Future Internet arena he is a caretaker for the Future Internet Service Offer Working Group in the Future Internet Assembly. Prof. Domingue is also serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Web Semantics and the Applied Ontology Journal.
Charles Fillmore
University of California Berkeley, USA
Biographie: Charles J. Fillmore is a retired professor 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/.
Ram Nevatia
University of Southern California, USA
Biographie: Ram Nevatia received the BS degree from the University of Bombay, India, the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, all in electrical engineering. He has been with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1975, where he is currently a professor of computer science and electrical engineering and the director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems. He has authored two books and contributed chapters to several others. He has been a regular contributor to the literature in computer vision. His research interests include computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Dr. Nevatia is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a member of the ACM. He is an associate editor of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as a technical editor in the areas of robot vision and inspection systems for the IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation. He also served as a cogeneral chair of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in June 1997. He is a fellow of the IEEE and member of the IEEE Computer Society.
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.
