Deborah L. McGuinness (original) (raw)

Co-Investigator and project lead for the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory Vertical Net project which resulted in the Vertical Net Ontology Evolution Environment (OntoBuilder / OntoServer).

Research and Application Areas:

Knowledge representation and reasoning languages, systems, and usability
Explaining question answering systems and improving trust in answers
Artificial intelligence applications for the web (particularly semantic web services and commerce applications)
Information organization (particularly ontology generation and management)
Ontology-enhanced search Deborah's main application areas have included:
Configurators (17 deployed systems for AT&T and Lucent Technologies having configured over 6 billion dollars worth of telecommunications equipment. Some have been deployed for over a decade.)
Knowledge-enhanced search (10 applications deployed within AT&T and Quintillion in areas such as medicine, high technology and telecommunications competitive intelligence, customer care, staffing, high tech research, etc.)
Intelligent web applications (electronic yellow pages, online calendars, home town web sites, electronic commerce, etc. at AT&T, Quintillion, General Motors(which won an award at the 2004 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference), etc.)
Ontology evolution environments at Stanford, AT&T, Vertical Net, Sandpiper, etc.
Semantic integration of scientific data including the National Center for Atmospheric Research(NCAR) Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology's Immune Epitope Database, the evolving Semantically-Enabled Scientific Data Integration with JPL and NCAR.

Education and Research Lab History:

Deborah holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Duke University, a M.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. She joined Stanford in 1998 after having spent 18 years at AT&T Labs--Research (previously AT&T Bell Laboratories).

Publications, Patents, and Talks:

Deborah has published over 100 papers. For a list of publications, lectures, and patentsclick here .
Deborah's citations are also listed according to:
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A few recent or upcoming invited talks include:

an invited talk at the Norwegian Semantic Web Days on April 27, 2006.
a keynote address for this year's Semantic Technology Conferenceon Making Web Applications Trustable, San Jose, CA, March 8, 2006.
a talk on Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Key Enablers for Earth and Space Science Advances for the American Geophysical Union AGU Fall Meeting Earth and Space Science Informatics Session, San Francisco, CA, Dec 8, 2005.
a talk about trusting answers from web applications for the Joint Conference on Information Sciences,Web Intelligence and Security Track, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 23, 2005.
a talk about the semantic web and digital libraries for theDigital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education (JCDL2005).International Scientific Data, Standards, and Digital Libraries Track. Denver, Colorado, June 11, 2005.
a talk about explaining the results of text analytic components using semantic web technologies for the Department of Homeland Security Advanced Scientific Computing ProgramText Analysis Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia, May 25, 2005. Many more invited talks and links are included on Deborah'scv.

Professional Activities:

Deborah continues her thrust of helping to form community around semantic integration of scientific information by co-organizing meetings and workshops on the topic. The latest one will be held at the the American Geophysical Union fall meeting (a meeting attended by over 10,000 natural scientists) with a workshop on cyberinfrastructure. She co-organized a workshop on Earth and Space Science Ontologies at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab on May 26, 2006 and a workshop session of the 2006 AGU spring meeting on Semantic Scientific Data Integration on May 25, 2006. Deborah convened a workshop session of the 2005fall meeting of the American Geophysical Unionon Ontologies for Earth and Space Sciencesin San Francisco in December, 2005. Deborah delivered a tutorial on Ontologies 101 Revisitedfor the Semantic Technology Conference 2006and on the semantic webat the 2005 National Conference for the Artificial Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in Pittsburgh. She also co-chaired a workshop onContexts and Ontologies also at AAAI2005.
Deborah was program chair at the 2004 meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Some past community service includes being program chair for the Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002) , co-host of the July 2002 working group meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Ontology Working Group, sponsor chair of the International Semantic Web Conference, cochair for theInternational Workshop on Description Logics 2001, cochair for the first International Semantic Web Workshop . At this international semantic web meeting, we formed the International Semantic Web Science Foundation and also started the internal semantic web conference series.

Deborah is on the executive steering board for Semantic Web Science Foundationand the Oregon State University Ecosystem Informatics Division. She served previous terms on the executive boards ofInternational Description Logics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning , and ontology.org.
Deborah is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. She is also an area editor for a journal on Modeling Semantics of Web Information: Theory, Methods, and Applications. It is part of ETAI (Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence) . She is also on the editorial board for ICCS. She co-edited a book on description logics now available from Cambridge University Press and the book entitled

The Emerging Semantic Web.

She also consults in the areas of the semantic web, scientific data integration, ontologies and ontology environments, AI for e-commerce, knowledge organization and management, internet AI applications, and configuration. She is on the technical advisory board for a few startup companies including Buildfolio, Katalytik , Radar Networks, and Sandpiper Software. She served on the technology advisory boards of three companies and helped them through acquisition:Applied Semantics (acquired by Google), Guru (acquired by Unicru), and Cerebra, whose assets wereacquired by WebMethods.

Curriculum Vitae:

Academic resume is available. A short description is available for publicity from here .