Semantic Web Funding Organizers: Manfred Hauswirth, Amit Sheth

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Semantic Web FundingOrganizers Manfred
Hauswirth, Amit Sheth

• Panelists Mark Greaves, Todd Hughes, Isidro
  Laso-Ballesteros, James Milligan, Frank Olken

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Mark Greaves - Vulcan

• Dr. Mark Greaves is currently Program Manager for
  Knowledge Systems at Vulcan Inc., the private
  asset management company for Paul Allen. He is
  sponsoring advanced RD in large knowledge bases
  and semantic web technologies, including Project
  Halo (www.projecthalo.com). Formerly, Mark served
  as Director of DARPA's Joint Logistics Technology
  Office, and as Program Manager in DARPA's IXO. He
  managed a variety of DARPA projects in semantics
  and distributed computing technology, including
  the DAML project that funded the development of
  the OWL, OWL/S, and SWRL languages. Prior to
  coming to DARPA, Mark worked on natural language
  semantics and software agent technology at the
  Mathematics and Computing Technology group of
  Boeing Phantom Works.

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Todd Huges - Darpa

• Dr. Todd Hughes became a Program Manager for
  DARPA/IXO in July 2006. His research interests
  include geospatial intelligence, cognitive
  systems, and data integration. Earlier, Dr.
  Hughes held a position as Technical Manager at
  Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories,
  where he oversaw research and development
  projects in cognitive systems and semantic
  technology. Notable research endeavors include
  the Ontology Translation Protocol, a project
  aimed at developing technology to assist in the
  rapid integration of heterogeneous information
  resources. Dr. Hughes earned his Ph.D. from the
  University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. While
  completing his doctorate, he worked as a member
  of the technical staff at Cycorp, Inc.

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Jim Milligan - AFRL

• Mr. Jim Milligan is a computer scientist at the
  U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Rome
  Research Site. He currently directs and conducts
  research and development activities within AFRLs
  Information Directorate supporting the Systems
  and Information Interoperability branch
  (AFRL/IFSE). For over two decades, Mr. Milligan
  has been working in the areas of software and
  systems engineering, process management, and
  information technology. Most recently, his work
  has focused in the areas of net-centric
  information management, semantic mediation, and
  information transformation services in support of
  the Air Force.

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Frank Olken - NSF

• Since September 2006 Frank Olken has been
  detailed to NSF as a Program Director in the
  Computer and Information Science and Engineering
  (CISE) Directorate, Intelligent Information
  Systems (IIS) Division, Informatics and
  Information Integration (III) Cluster. He
  evaluates proposals in science and engineering
  informatics and information integration, and
  various topics in data management, knowledge
  management, etc. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer
  Science from UC Berkeley and has long worked in
  the Scientific Data Management Group at Lawrence
  Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. in
  scientific, statistical, and engineering data and
  metadata management. He has taught data
  management at UC Berkeley. He has worked on RDF
  and XML Schema Language Standards and the ISO
  11179 Metadata Registry Standard.

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