Where would the internet and software engineering world be, if the open source and free software community wouldn’t exist? Nowhere near as open and free as it is today, we’d say. Lydia Pintscher is one of the main matadors who has been fighting for transparency and the availability of non-corporate free software for the daily needs of end-users for years.
Companies still lack a strong framework to convert big data sources into high-quality, structured knowledge which can support the enhancement of business process and profit generation. After all, smart data is not only a question of the right software. It’s also dependent on right data engineering.
Volker Tresp truly is a veteran on the field of machine learning and semantic technologies. Having received his MSc and PhD at the Yale University in 1986 and 1989, respectively, he’s been leading research teams at Siemens for the last 27 years.
Cathy Dolbear has been around for some time. Holding a DPhil in Information Engineering she has helped Sharp as well as Motorola to develop patented personalisation and multimedia technologies. In between she developed semantic web technologies in the geospatial domain for the British mapping agency Ordnance Survey where she also researched ontology design and multi-database interoperability.
The European Linked Data Contest awards prizes to stories, products, projects or persons presenting novel and innovative projects, products and industry implementations involving linked data.
Holding a PhD in semantic web technologies from the Knowledge Media Institute (The Open University, UK) as well as advanced degrees in logic and philosophy of language from the University of Venice (Italy), Michele Pasin is the perfect product manager for the highly ambitioned Knowledge Graph
