December 8th, 2008
Mark Greaves of Vulcan sees business opportunities in the Semantic Web
Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks (the company behind Twine) and Evri.
Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Mark Greaves, Vulcan’s Director of Knowledge Systems Research, and the resulting podcast was released earlier today.
Drawing upon a background that includes the likes of Boeing and DARPA, Greaves is persuaded of the benefits to be found in applying semantic technologies to existing business problems and processes.
Greaves identifies four broad areas ripe for development;
- Search
- Enterprise Information
- Social Semantic Web Applications
- Web-scale Knowledge Publishing
It will be interesting to see the extent to which Vulcan - and others - invest in these areas next year.
Paul Miller provides consultancy and analysis services at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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