K-CAP - Key Persons


Adam Farquhar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Aldo Gangemi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Italian National Research Council, Italy )

Andrew Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Anna Lisa Gentile

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Asun Gomez-Perez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Carsten Keßler

Job Titles:
  • Department of Planning

Charles Rich

Job Titles:
  • Alan Rector ( University of Manchester, UK )

Christopher Welty

Job Titles:
  • IBM Research

Dieter Fensel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Eric Horvitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Microsoft Research

Eugene Agichtein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee
  • Microsoft Research

George Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Guus Schreiber - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer

Guy Boy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Henry Lieberman

Job Titles:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, US )

Ilaria Tiddi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

James Fan

Job Titles:
  • IBM Research, US )

Joao F. Ferreira

Job Titles:
  • ID & Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

John Gennari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

José Luis Redondo García

Job Titles:
  • Amazon Research

José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Expert Systems

Juan Sequeda

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Ken Barker

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Program Committee

Ken Ford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Krzysztof Janowicz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Larry Birnbaum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Matthew Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Microsoft Research

Natasha Noy

Job Titles:
  • Program Chair

Oren Etzioni - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington 's Computer Science Department
Oren Etzioni is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington's Computer Science Department, and the founder and director of the university's Turing Center. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1990, and his B.A. from Harvard in 1986. Etzioni has authored of over 100 technical papers on topics ranging from intelligent agents to data mining and Web search. In 2005, he was awarded the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award for "A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction". He received a National Young Investigator Award in 1993, and was chosen as a AAAI Fellow a decade later. Etzioni is the founder of three companies. Most recently, he is the founder of Farecast (www.farecast.com), a company that utilizes data mining to inform consumers about the right time to buy their air tickets. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, SCIENCE, The Economist, TIME Magazine, Business Week, Newsweek, Discover Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Wired, and elsewhere.

Oscar Corcho

Job Titles:
  • Chairman - Elect
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Program Committee

Paul Compton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Raphaël Troncy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Raúl García Castro

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Rob Holte

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Rose Dieng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Siegfried Handschuh

Job Titles:
  • Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland )

Sven Schade

Job Titles:
  • European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre

Takahiro Kawamura

Job Titles:
  • Japan Science and Technology

Tania Tudorache

Job Titles:
  • Technology Chair

Udo Hahn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Vinay Chaudhri

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Program Committee

Yolanda Gil

Job Titles:
  • General Chair