Nova Spivack

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1969 –

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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
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
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 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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