About: Background: 16 years as an A.I. consultant for a large engineering company, I am now mostly interested in the question of how to use web + semantic technologies + text/web mining algorithms (not just entity-extraction) to solve big problems - why not poverty or education? I am now particularly looking into dataweb-based (DBpedia, Freebase, Twine) startup/consultance opportunities.

Favorite application domains: user-models, interest profiles (APML), concept modeling, knowledge networks, mashups. Designing a rich user-profile editor for filtering of RSS feeds.

More generally, I'm very interested in discussions about AI-based knowledge management (not just its impact on enterprise information systems, but also on education and international development).

Also, long-term interest in teaching (philosophy and computer programming).