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Vrandečić
Vrandečić is a Croatian surname. The name is known only to originate from Pučišća on the island of Brač. The oldest mention of the name is from 1674. The meaning of the name is not entirely clear. The most likely explanation is that it comes from the first name ''Vrandeka'', ''Vrane'', '' Frane'' (but the change from an F to a V is unusual). People with the name include: *Denny Vrandečić Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born February 27, 1978, in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimed ... (born 1978), Croatian-American computer scientist *Ivo Vrandečić, (born 1927), Croatian politician and businessman, former president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia and director of Jadranbrod *Vesna Vrandečić, Croatian singer, member of the band Xenia References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vrandecic Surnames of Croatian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denny Vrandečić
Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born February 27, 1978, in Stuttgart, Germany) is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content. He published modules for the German role-playing game ''The Dark Eye''. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. Education Vrandečić attended the Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium in Stuttgart and from 1997 he studied computer science and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He received his doctorate in 2010 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he was a research associate in the Knowledge Management Research Group at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Languages (AFIB), with Rudi Studer, from 2004 to 2012. In 2010, he visited the University of Southern California (ISI). Career and research Vran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |