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| January 2007 |
RealTravel
has grown to be an award-winning leader in user-contributed
travel information, with lots of content, writers, and readers. |
| October 2005 |
RealTravel
debuts at Web 2.0 |
| April 2005 |
With Ken Leeder and Michael Tanne,
Tom co-founds RealTravel,
a user-contributed travel information site. Tom is CTO and
leads product design. |
| 2004 |
Consider
Solutions,
a London-based consultancy that grew out of high-end services
built on Intraspect technologies, is launched as an independent
firm. Tom is co-founder and Chief Scientist. |
| December 2003 |
Intraspect bought by
Vignette. Tom becomes Chief Architect for collaboration and
such. |
| March 2001 |
Enterprise software market collapses
(ouch) |
| January 2001 |
Intraspect
hits high-water mark: over 200 employees and the "Intraspect
Building" |
| 1997 |
Intraspect debuts at Esther Dyson's
PC Forum |
| February 1996 |
Intraspect
opens doors with first round money |
| September 1995 |
Peter, Craig, and Tom incorporate
Intraspect. Tom is CTO and product design lead. |
| Late 1994-1995 |
Enterprise Integration Technology
EIT was a contract research firm that prototyped many of
the ideas and technologies that have become the foundation
for entire industries, including: CommerceNet (the first e-Commerce
industry B2B consortium); ontologies for e-commerce (which
are today industry-specific XML schema); secure HTTP; micropayments;
high performance HTTP servers; WYSIWYG HTML editors; and web-based
collaborative workspaces with VRML visualization, live video
conferencing, document sharing, application integration, and
asynchronous messaging and collaboration.
It was an exciting time at EIT, with web visionaries including
Marty Tenenbaum (e-commerce), Marc Andreesen (Netscape), Mark
Pesce (VRML), Jay Weber (Commercial HTTP server on Windows),
Kevin Hughes (the Webmaster's Webmaster), Vinay Kumar (MBONE-based
video conferencing), and others. There was strong collaboration
among groups at Stanford (CS/Knowledge Systems Lab, Mechanical
Engineering, Civil Engineering), Lockheed AI Center, Xerox
PARC, and SRI.
At EIT, Tom led the research on web-based collaboration and
learning technology, proposing several projects using the
Internet to create shared, virtual environments for collaborative
learning and work. As a two week project in collaboration,
he created HyperMail.
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| 1988-1994 |
Stanford University
The Stanford Knowledge
Systems Laboratory is a world leader in knowledge-based
AI, and the birthplace of several public companies.
Tom worked as a research associate (a staff research scientist).
It was a great job: all the benefits of working at a world
class university (brilliant colleagues, students that are
smarter than their advisors, healthy research funding, a podium
to get the word out) with none of the stress of the Road to
Tenure.
He
conducted and led research in knowledge representation,
knowledge sharing, model formulation, machine-generated
explanation, and design rationale capture. He led the Ontologies
section of the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort, a movement
that led to ISO standards for knowledge exchange (KIF)
and languages for interoperability in the manner of what
later became XML (Ontolingua, KQML). He developed and implemented Ontolingua,
a system for representing and integrating ontologies.
He established the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Library, the
first web-based public exchange for ontologies, software,
and knowledge bases.
Tom was a cheerleader for the use of the Web as a medium
for Virtual
Documents (dynamic web applications that generate
hypermedia presentations on demand in response to user interaction).
He led the team that invented and deployed the first virtual
document applications on the web that generate natural language
explanations in response to questions. See explanation
generation.
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