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).

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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 .
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A few recent or upcoming invited talks include:

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 .



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