Tom Gruber
Organization founder
Who is Tom Gruber?
Tom Gruber is an innovator in technologies
that extend human intelligence. Building on early work in computer-mediated
learning and artificial intelligence, he focuses on creating environments
for collective intelligence.
He co-founded RealTravel,
which aspires to be the best place on the web to share knowledge
and experiences about travel.
RealTravel.com provides an
environment for a community of travel enthusiasts to create beautiful
travel journals of their adventures, share them with friends and
family, and find other like-minded travelers. People looking for
information about where to go, where to stay, or what to do in
their travels can learn from the authentic experiences of those
who have been there.
Previously he was co-founder and CTO of Intraspect
Software, which creates environments for professional people
working together on line. Intraspect applications help people
collaborate in large distributed communities, learn from each
other, and continuously contribute to a collective body of knowledge.
Intraspect is used by hundreds of corporate customers in Financial
Services, Marketing Services, Professional Services, High Technology,
and other globally distributed enterprises.
He is also a founder and Chief Scientist of Consider
Solutions, a
consultancy that helps Global 2000 companies to design and
implement coordinated systems of technology, processes, and human
organizations to maximize organizational effectiveness.
At Stanford University in the early
1990's, Gruber was a pioneer in the use of the Web for knowledge
sharing and collaboration. He established the DARPA
Knowledge Sharing Library, a web-based public exchange for ontologies,
software, and knowledge bases. Gruber also led the Stanford team
that invented and deployed the first Virtual
Document applications on the web that generate natural language
explanations in response to questions.
With colleagues at Stanford, Xerox PARC, and SRI, he designed
systems that provide shared virtual spaces for collaborative
work, agent-based collaborative engineering, and collaborative
learning. To support the collaborations of the WWW research community,
HyperMail turns ordinary electronic mail into a web-based organizational
memory. HyperMail was used as the archive and public forum for
some of the key discussions that
defined the emerging ideas of the early Web.
Tom is an advisor to interesting companies in financial services
(Wall Street), enterprise collaboration (SocialText, Consider),
social networking (LinkedIn),
semantic web (Radar
Networks),
Natural Language Search (Powerset),
mind mapping (Mindjet), life
story sharing (OurStory), social
compensation (OpenYear),
social entrepreneurship (ChangingThePresent.org),
and open content (the Internet
Archive).
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