Nova Spivack
Organization leader
1969 –
Who is Nova Spivack?
I am a high-tech entrepreneur. I am a life support system for memes. I am an ontologist. I am virtual.Nova Spivack is a technology visionary and entrepreneur with nearly
two decades of experience in pioneering ventures. In 1994, Mr. Spivack
co-founded EarthWeb, one of the
first Internet companies, where he was Executive Vice-President for
Products, Strategy and Marketing. EarthWeb went public in 1999 and
resulted in the Nasdaq's largest IPO single-day percentage point gain
up to that point, spawning a wave of Tech IPOs. Mr. Spivack left
EarthWeb’s board of directors in 1999 and began advising startups and
angel investing. During the down-years of the post-Internet-bubble,
EarthWeb’s content properties were acquired in 2000 by Internet.com. The company’s Dice.com property remained a strong stand-alone business until it was acquired for approximately $200 million in 2005.
While
at EarthWeb he helped key cultural institutions and businesses develop
their first large-scale Web presences, including the New York Stock
Exchange, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, BMG Music Club, Sony,
ATT, US West, and others. He also helped to catalyze the adoption
of Java technology by leading the production of large on communities
for the IT professionals, including Gamelan.com, Developer.com, and Datamation.com.
Prior
to EarthWeb, Mr. Spivack worked in a variety of roles from technology
marketing to software engineering at artificial intelligence and
next-generation computing ventures including Individual, Inc., Ray
Kurzweil’s pioneering OCR company, Kurzweil Computer Products which was
sold to Xerox, and at Danny Hillis’ legendary supercomputing venture,
Thinking Machines. Mr. Spivack is also the founder of Lucid Ventures, an early-stage incubator that originated the technologies that are now Radar Networks. Mr. Spivack is a co-founder of the San Francisco Web Innovators Network (SFWIN), a network of several hundred technology innovators and business leaders who meet monthly in the Bay Area.
Mr.
Spivack has extensive experience working on knowledge representation
and the Semantic Web, and has authored and helped to design several
large (500 to 3000 class) ontologies in the OWL language, the W3C open standard for ontology specifications. Mr. Spivack has also been a lead advisor to SRI International on the DARPA CALO program,
a distributed research program encompassing several hundred top
researchers across over 20 major research institutions focused on
next-generation semantically-aware machine learning applications, and
in particular on the IRIS Semantic Desktop project. Also with SRI and Sarnoff Laboratories, Mr. Spivack helped to co-found nVention, SRI’s in-house technology incubator.
Mr.
Spivack has co-authored several books on Internet strategy and
technology and led the EarthWeb Press publishing imprint with Macmillan
Computer Publishing, one of the largest computer book publishers, which
resulted in a series of publications by leading authors on technology.
He has been featured and cited in Business Week, CNN, CNBC, CBS Evening
News, CNN-FN, Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Washington Post,
WIRED Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Communications Week,
Interactive Week, Internet World, Reuters, Newsweek, Red Herring,
Silicon Alley Reporter, Interactive Age, Web Week, Java Developer’s
Journal, and has spoken at numerous conferences and industry events.
Mr. Spivack also helped to invent key technologies for interactive
television and Web convergence in the early days of the Web, as well as
several pending patents for Radar Networks.
Mr. Spivack
has a long-time interest in cognitive science, artificial intelligence,
emergent computation, knowledge management and the emerging Semantic
Web. As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker,
Mr. Spivack shares his family’s heritage of interests in management
theory, nonprofits, and knowledge work. In addition, he has been a
student of Tibetan...
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- Born
- Jun 5, 1969
Boston - Spouses
- Kimberly Rubin-Spivack
(2010/03/19 - )
- Kimberly Rubin-Spivack
- Religion
- Buddhist cuisine
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Professional degree, International Space University
Space Life Sciences - Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College
Philosophy - University of Massachusetts Boston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Professional degree, International Space University
- Employment
- Co-Founder, EarthWeb
(1994 - 1999) - Thinking Machines Corporation
(1988 - 1989) - Chief Executive Officer, Radar Networks
(2003 - 2010) - Kurzweil
(1987 - 1987) - Co-Founder, Live Matrix
(2010 - ) - Co-Founder, Bottlenose, Inc.
(2010 - ) - SRI International - nVention
(1999 - 2000) - Advisor, Klout
(2009 - ) - Co-Founder, StreamGlider
(2010 - ) - Director, Energy Magnification Corporation
(2011 - )
- Co-Founder, EarthWeb
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on July 23, 2013
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