MarkGreaves

= Mark Greaves =

Dr. Mark Greaves is currently Director, Knowledge Systems at Vulcan, Inc. Vulcan is the private investment vehicle for Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft, www.vulcan.com). At Vulcan, he is sponsoring advanced research in large knowledge bases and advanced web technologies, including Project Halo (www.projecthalo.com).

Formerly, Mark was Program Manager in DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (IXO) for the DAML, UltraLog, and Advanced Logistics Projects. At DARPA, he has sponsored research on logistics and supply chain control technologies, formal ontology specification, semantic web technology, and the application of software agent technology to problems of distributed control of complex systems-of-systems. Prior to coming to DARPA, he led advanced programs in software agent technology at the Mathematics and Computing Technology group of Boeing's Phantom Works division. His main research interests are in mathematical logic, semantic web, and software agent technology, about which he has published two books and several papers.

Mark holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and can be reached at <[mailto:markg@vulcan.com markg@vulcan.com]>.

See also:


 * Dr. Greaves invited talk at the Ontolog Forum on "Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPA" - ConferenceCall_2005_05_12
 * Dr. Greaves invited talk at the Ontolog Forum on "Knowledge Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic Web" at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_19
 * Dr. Greaves was involved in the leadership and organization of the SemanticWiki mini-series back in the 2008/2009 time frame, and had co-chaired and presented at the concluding sessions there.