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| So, you're wondering, who are these people? Well, the photos and holographic jackets are from our extravaganzas introducing the COMDEX audience to real-time 3D graphics in 1995. At the front of the curve, as usual. We've surfed the bleeding edge together for 21 years. We've been involved in AI since 1983, Object Oriented and Parallel Computing since 1984, Relational DB since 1985, 2D Multimedia since 1986, Object/Relational since 1987, Client/Server since 1988, Intelligent Relational Database since 1989, 2.5D Multimedia since 1992, Virtual Reality since 1994, 3D Web since 1995, Distributed Objects since 1996, 3D as a datatype since 1997, and Computing Fabrics since 1998. We've been working on the Model Driven Semantic Web and Model Driven Semantic Grid since 2001 and on automated Semantic Model Driven Representation and Transformation since 2002. In 2004 we are finally, after 20 years research, spinning out Neological Surveyor - a unique follow-on to search, browsing, data mining, and knowledge discovery. We often work alone and we bring in favorite long term associates on specific projects. Between us we have extraordinary expertise in an incredibly broad range of areas and we love to think about things. We share our research through R&D Services, Consulting, CyberSpaceShip Adventures, Publications, and Products. We spun off Synsyta LLC in 2003 to coordinate the efforts of researchers in the areas of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Representation, Model Driven Architecture, and Formal Concepts for a variety of customer projects. We are currently spinning off NeoLogical Corporation to commercialize one of our longstanding thinktank projects. |
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| Erick
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| In Short | Erick brings a multidisciplinary perspective to his work and his world. His perspective is centered on logics, topology and algebras and branches to quantum physics, knowledge representation and reasoning, the science of consciousness, evolutionary systems, distributed and parallel computing, visualization, virtual reality and systems theory and engineering. Erick brings this perspective to focus on innovative software and systems architecture, data structures and algorithms. Key organizing principles that shape his efforts include quantum superposition, natural selection, declarative methods, modeling, and anomaly as a driver of insight. |
| Positions | 2004
Co-Founder and CTO, Neological Corp. 2003 – Present, Co-Founder
and Chief Technology Officer, Synsyta LLC 1984 – Present Co-Founder
and Chief Science Officer, Infomaniacs 2000 – 2003 Chief Technology
Officer, Cacheon Inc. |
| Experience | 2002
– 2003 DARPA counter terrorism program 2002 Co-Submitter, Online Upgrade specification, Object Management Group Open standard enabling software to be modified as it operates (including real-time software). 2001 Developed and proposed a roadmap for the Model Driven Semantic Grid at Global Grid Forum 2 following on the heels of the Software Services Grid Workshop. This motivated several efforts that have come to fruition, including Open Grid Service Infrastructure and Architecture, the Semantic Grid and the Model Driven Semantic Web. 2001 Co-organizer, Software
Services Grid Workshop 1998 – 1999 Architected system to manage and distribute 500TB of audio media for a consumer oriented spinoff of Muzak Corporation. System exploited a deep hybridization of relational with object oriented database technologies, multi-level supercomputer-class storage management and dynamic format translation. 1998 - 1999 Architected next generation of a classified intelligence collection, analysis and distribution system. Further developed Active Models, a predecessor to Model Driven Architecture based on the relational model of data, as a foundation for the intelligence system architecture. 1998 Released Computing Fabrics vision and architecture to the public in a PC Week cover story special report, “Computing’s Next Wave”. (Eric Lundquist, the Editor-in-Chief of eWeek, later publicized this as the first vision of utility computing, including web services, grid computing and server virtualization, foreseeing IBM’s corporate vision of On-Demand computing, HP’s vision of the Adaptive Enterprise, and Sun Microsystem’s N1.) 1998 Co-chair, Enterprise Computing Working Group, VRML Consortium 1997 – 1999 Frequent contributor to PC Week and eWeek on advanced technologies including supercomputing, security and next generation networks. 1997 Evaluated very large database technologies for real-time, performance critical classified intelligence collection, analysis and distribution system. 1997 Chair, Object Management Working Group, VRML Consortium 1997 Developed SQL3D, a declarative 4th generation language and architecture for real-time, interactive 3D visualization. 1996 - 1997 Consulted with a North Carolina venture consortium, in partnership with the NC Microelectronics and Supercomputing centers to achieve inter-organizational collaboration and efficiencies. Interviewed and assessed consortium members across the US. Developed an enterprise architecture to support the collaboration. Developed a roadmap to implement architecture. 1996 Research and development of the ioFABRIC, a precursor to Computing Fabrics. 1996 Trained the defense/intelligence community in very large database technology, visualization, virtual reality and the integration of these technologies. 1995 Produced and developed “Maximum Impact” and “Exploring the Multimedium” for COMDEX Fall and Spring Supersessions to introduce IT audience to 3D, multimedia and virtual reality on the Web, presented live to multiple press and keynote audiences of 1,250 attendees and involving 30 presenting vendors. 1993 – 1997 Frequent contributor to PC Magazine; benchmark development, testing and evaluation. Cover stories on Virtual Reality in 1995 and Web3D in 1996. 1993 Developed and produced “Science Theater: Into the Mind of the Scientist”, an interactive multimedia theatrical performance aimed at catalyzing sixth graders to find the scientist within themselves while teaching concepts of quantum physics, cognitive science and philosophy of mind and science in the process. 1991 Developed and produced “Science Theater: Lost in VR”, a multimedia theatrical performance that revealed and addressed pivotal topics in the philosophy of science and mind in the context of a campy SciFi drama. It concluded with Mindwaves, a mind-bending special effects show inducing feelings of alertness, creativity and euphoria in attendees. Performed live at Phenomicon I. 1988 Researcher, Expert
Systems Lab, Office of Interdisciplinary Programs, Georgia Tech Research
Institute 1987 – 1995 Architected, designed, developed and managed one of the very first downsizing projects, migrating daily credit card processing of multi-million record database from a mainframe to a distributed, client/server relational database (Oracle) running across a TCP/IP network of UNIX servers and Windows 386 clients. Researched and developed temporal relational database methods and structures for liability protection. Integrated barcode processing to speed campaign response mail handling and improve productivity by several orders of magnitude. 1989 Research and development leading to 1,000,000 fold improvement in data mining and knowledge discovery algorithm performance. 1986 Research and development leading to Active Models, a relational model based predecessor to Model Driven Architecture using extensible, updateable non first normal form intelligent views. 1985 Research and development of semantic database management technology with natural language recognition interface. 1983 – 1984 Co-Founder
and President, General Information Corporation 1982 – 1985 Founder,
The Group of Individuals |
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| Selected Industry Publications |
Analyst: PC Week
on Networking, 3D, and Enterprise Computing |
| "Computers that Think, Machines that Feel", Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine Online and MSNBC headline May 12, 1998. |
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| "SuperHIPPI Turns on Power", Erick Von Schweber. PC Week January 26, 1998. |
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| "2001 Computing in the New Millenium: Network Computers", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine June 9, 1998. |
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| "2001 Computing in the New Millennium: The Future of VR", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine June 9, 1998. |
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| "The Web's a 3-D World After All", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine, June 9, 1998. |
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| "3-D APIs Conserve Bandwidth", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Week October 31, 1997. |
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| "The Web Goes 3-D: - Virtual Reality Modeling Language", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine November 5, 1996. |
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| "Virtual Reality - Virtually Here", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine March 14, 1995. |
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| "An Evolutionary Step Toward More Effective Human-Database Interaction", Erick Von Schweber and Linda Bordeaux, US Army Institute for Research in Management Information, Communication, and Computer Sciences (AIRMICS), September 1988 |
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| In Short | Ms. Von Schweber co-founded Infomaniacs in 1984 and Synsyta LLC in 2003 and has over 20 years experience in product and interface design, production of workshops and keynote events, and project management. She supports Fortune 100 customers and their customers, from defense projects for DARPA to Virtual Reality on the Web, with leading edge R&D including the development and exploitation of architectures and products integrating emerging technologies, COTS, and standards. She works with Infomaniacs' clients as an analyst and designer to interview stakeholders, determine requirements, develop architectures, and design interfaces with a focus on reducing the cognitive load on the user. She is also responsible for collaborating with software designers and data modelers to produce tight integration between needs of the user, the UI design and the capabilities of the back end system. Recent focus includes using the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Enterprise Distributed Objects Computing (EDOC) to document, model, and develop Enterprise Architectures. |
| Positions |
INFOMANIACS
– 1984 to present – www.infomaniacs.com SYNSYTA LLC – 2003 to present – www.synsyta.com NEOLOGICAL CORP 2004
to present - www.neological.com
CACHEON INC – 2000-2001 ZIFF DAVIS PUBLISHING 1994-1999 |
| Selected Experiences | PRODUCT AND INTERFACE DESIGN Ms. Von Schweber has directed R&D in Human Computer Interfaces at Infomaniacs, including the exploration of Virtual Reality, 3D and storytelling as user interface paradigms, since 1984 when she designed the UI for a semantic database management system. In 2003 she managed development of Synsyta Suite – an interoperable toolset for Model Driven, standards based, asset development, management, choreography and automatic provisioning using UML, EDOC, ODM, RDF, OWL and componentized ontologies. Synsyta Suite’s client side tooling includes Data Access Technologies’ Component-X Studio (C-X) for application development and business process management and Sandpiper Software’s Visual Ontology Modeler (VOM) for ontology based semantics and interoperability, with all assets managed by Adaptive’s IT Portfolio Manager (ITPM). Since 2002 she has been designing Neological Surveyor – a product that brings the power of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery together with the ease of use of searching and browsing to an ordinary user. From 2000 to 2001 she designed a user interface for a distributed inter and intra-enterprise interoperability, integration and collaboration product. During the 1990s she researched the use of interactive 3D visualization for access to very large datasets and designed a number of experimental interfaces including ORAC (Objects, Relations, Abstracts, and Concretes), In 1987 she designed an automated credit card billing system and customer support application to enable a single help desk employee to support over 8,000,000 customer records. WORKSHOPS, KEYNOTES, TRAINING, COLLABORATION Ms. Von Schweber produces and directs keynote sessions, training programs, and workshops for emerging technologies and research. These projects have brought together many stakeholders, customers, vendors, technologies, and standards bodies to collaboratively focus on emerging opportunities. In 2002-2003 she organized two workshops with world-class experts in MDA (Model Driven Architecture) and EDOC (Enterprise Distributed Object Computing), knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, and formal methods to begin integrating their isolated areas into the beginnings of the Model Driven Semantic Web. In 2001 she co-produced the Software Services Grid Workshop – bringing together the leaders of MDA from the Object Management Group, the web services and semantic web leaders from the World Wide Web Consortium, and the founders of the Global Grid Forum, to consider how these technologies may benefit each other and be integrated. In 1996 Ms. Von Schweber produced training sessions for the defense intelligence community in very large database technology, visualization, virtual reality and the integration of these technologies. In 1995 she co-produced and directed “Maximum Impact” and “Exploring the Multimedium” for the COMDEX Fall and Spring Conference Keynote Supersessions – to introduce 3D, multimedia and virtual reality on the Web to the IT audience. These sessions coordinated 30 vendors’ presentations into a single storyline with appropriate costuming, original music, and virtual worlds. They were presented to press and keynote audiences of 1,250 attendees each. In 1993 she co-developed and co-produced “Science Theater: Into the Mind of the Scientist”, an interactive multimedia theatrical performance aimed at catalyzing sixth graders to find the scientist within themselves while teaching concepts of quantum physics, cognitive science and philosophy of mind and science in the process. In 1991 she co-produced “Science Theater: Lost in VR”, a multimedia theatrical performance that revealed and addressed pivotal topics in the philosophy of science and mind in the context of a campy SciFi drama. It concluded with Mindwaves, a mind-bending special effects show inducing feelings of alertness, creativity and euphoria in attendees. Performed live at Phenomicon I. PREDICTIONS, PRODUCT EVALUATION AND MARKET ANALYSIS Ms. Von Schweber co-authored the 1998 PC Week special cover story on Computing Fabrics that predicted the emergence of utility computing with web services, server virtualization and grid computing. Only 5 years later that prediction constitutes the strategic roadmaps of IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, EMC and others. Nationally recognized as an expert in the evaluation and comparison of COTS (Consumer Off The Shelf Software), she was a contributing analyst for PC Magazine and PCWeek (now eWeek) from 1994-1999. During that time she developed benchmarks, usability testing, and comparative reviews for over 125 products in the areas of Virtual Reality, interactive real-time 3D simulation, 3D modeling and animation, 3D on the Web, 2D graphics, multimedia authoring, and the Internet. PROJECT MANAGER During 2002 – 2003 she was project manager for Infomaniacs’ and Synsyta’s work on a DARPA counter terrorism program and organized a world-class team in the design of I3F, Intercommunity Intelligence Information Flow – a phased development/deployment of advanced to revolutionary information representation and transformation technology. This includes MRT (Model-driven Representation & Transportation), SMRT (Semantic Model-driven Representation and Transportation), and MAGIC (Managed LoGIC) - all designed to enable the integration of widely different systems in crisis time. From 2000 to 2001, as Director of Strategic Technologies for Cacheon, she directed market research and product design including features, user interface and usability for a distributed inter and intra-enterprise interoperability, integration and collaboration product. She also implemented an intranet portal including an internal knowledge management system. In 1999 she managed design of an architecture to distribute 500TB of audio media for web access for a consumer music distribution company. In 1997 she was project manager and evaluated very large database technologies for the architecture of a next generation of a classified intelligence collection, analysis and distribution system for a major defense contractor. In 1996 and 1997 she directed the Infomaniacs consulting effort with a North Carolina venture consortium, in partnership with the NC Microelectronics and Supercomputing centers, to achieve inter-organizational collaboration and efficiencies. She interviewed and assessed consortium members across the US and participated in developing an enterprise architecture to support the collaboration. |
| Education |
1973 B.S. Psychology Georgia State University |
| Selected Industry Publications |
"2001 Computing in the New Millennium: The Future of VR", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine June 9, 1998. |
| "The Web's a 3-D World After All", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine, June 9, 1998. |
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| "Modeling for the 3-D Web", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine Online May 19, 1998. |
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| "3-D APIs Conserve Bandwidth", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Week October 31, 1997. |
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| "The Web Goes 3-D: - Virtual Reality Modeling Language", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine November 5, 1996. |
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| "Putting the Space in Cyberspace", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine Trends June 13, 1995. |
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| "Virtual Reality - Virtually Here", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine March 14, 1995. |
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| "Multimedia Authoring", Linda Von Schweber and Erick Von Schweber. PC Magazine March 1994. |
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| "An
Evolutionary Step Toward More Effective Human-Database Interaction", |
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Contact the authors send mail to
info@infomaniacs.com Infomaniacs home is www.infomaniacs.com Copyright 1996-2004 by Infomaniacs. All Rights Reserved. Updated 10-15-2004 |
