Saturday, 10:30am, Grand Salon A
In our world today, machines are an indelible part of our everyday lives. We rely on powerful devices to help us find information, organize our lives and make decisions. What if all these machines that help us in our everyday lives actually “listened” to our actions? One of the most challenging aspects of the Semantic Web is introducing its concept and benefits to the everyday population. But do we really have to?
In this talk, we’ll contrast the way we make discoveries today
- by testing theories within controlled environments
- to a world where correlations can be discovered
by simply peering into and querying data gathered out of our everyday actions.
We’ll provide examples of technologies that are partly doing this today. We’ll alsotouch on the privacy concerns that arise out of such endeavors. Finally, we’ll outline examples of how we may benefit from such a “universal semantic store.”
INSTRUCTORS
Richard Ziade
Richard Ziade is the founder and partner at Arc90, a New York City-based technology and design consulting firm. Mr. Ziade graduated from law school in 1995, took a hard left from the law into technology, and never looked back. Since then, he has worked at both small technology startups and larger companies in various capacities revolving around product design, product management and interaction design. In 2004, Mr. Ziade founded Arc90 based on principles that technology, architecture and design are indelibly tied to one another. Today, Arc90 is comprised of 35 talented individuals with a clear focus on delivering the best Web and software experiences for our clients and our own products. In its short life, Arc90 has delivered groundbreaking products for our clients, leading to four patent filings to date.
Mr. Ziade is the author behind www.basement.org, a well-known technology and experience design blog with over 2,500 regular feed subscribers.
Tim Meaney
Timothy Meaney is a Lead Strategist and Partner at Arc90. Tim’s been building software professionally for over twelve years, as a store systems developer at Sears, project manager at Opus 360 and team lead at CSFB. Tim has always been interested in the intersection of business and software - studying business while programming
off-hours, working as a programmer while studying for his MBA, then trading in a strictly technical career to focus on the managing software teams and building a software company. A passionate technologist, Tim is protective of the environment the Arc90 team has created — a haven for people who love designing and building software to do things the right way. Besides technology, Tim’s major interests are his family (wife and two kids), music, running and reading.