Dave Copps is a sharp and humorous guy that has been deeply involved with the
process of tracking and extracting information and understanding how it travels and what that means. He is passionate about his work.
In this interview he give a brief look at the future of the web and leaves you wanting for more.
He discusses knowledge graphs the development of the semantic web.
He points out that the social web allows us to know who knows who, while the semantic web will allow us to know who knows what.
Dave mentioned Tim Berners-Lee and his work on machine-understandable information or Semantic Web.
Quick refresher: In 1990, Berners-Lee wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - the language computers use to communicate hypertext documents on the Internet and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet.
Latent Semantic Analysis -is defined on several places on the internet as a mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text.
About Dave Copps
Dave Copps is the founder and CEO of PureDiscovery.
Dave has been involved in intelligent document retrieval since 1992. Dave previously co-founded Engenium Corp., the first commercial application of latent semantic analysis, in 1999.
Engenium was purchased by Kroll, a unit of Marsh & McClennan.
About PureDiscovery Corporation
PureDiscovery Corp. is a software company building a semantic search capability optimized for recruiters. They give recruiters the ability to find job candidates using search engines, job boards and internal resume databases.
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