Kurt Bollacker
Computer Scientist
Who is Kurt Bollacker?
Kurt Bollacker is an American computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University Of Texas At Austin. He was co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool as a visiting researcher at the NEC Research Institute, the technical director of the Internet Archive, and a biomedical research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center. He is currently pursuing research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the Long Now Foundation. His previous position was Chief Scientist at Metaweb Technologies until Feb, 2009, after which he has been spending time as a philanthropist. In January, 2011 he joined Infochimps as a consulting Data Scientist.
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, University of Texas at Austin
Computer Engineering - Bachelor of Science, Duke University
Electrical engineering
- Doctorate, University of Texas at Austin
- Employment
- Digital Research Director, Long Now Foundation
(2000/12 - ) - Internet Archive
(1999 - 2000) - Chief Scientist, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
(2005/08 - 2009/02) - Applied Minds
(2001/08 - 2005/08)
- Digital Research Director, Long Now Foundation
- Lived in
- Austin
- San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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