Ora Lassila is a

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computer scientist who lives in the

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and works as a technologist at

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. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and

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, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in

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in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area. His early work in this area included proposing the original RDF Specification with Ralph R. Swick and he has been an elected member of the

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(W3C) Advisory Board since 1998. He also belongs to the steering committee of the Semantic Web Science Association. In 1996-1997, he was a visiting scientist at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, working with W3C, and has also held positions at the

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of Carnegie Mellon University, as a Research Scientist at the CS Laboratory of

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, and a research fellow at the

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Research Center in Cambridge, MA. His work includes a frame-based Knowledge Representation system (dubbed "SCAM") that he developed (first at

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and later at CMU) and which flew on board the

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probe that passed the

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in 1999. The system served as the KR substrate for an on-board planner used in an experiment to have the probe perform its functions autonomously.

Bibliography

*''Programming Semantic Web Applications: A Synthesis of Knowledge Representation and Semi-Structured Data'', dissertation, 2007

References

External links

The original Resource Description Framework specifications, RDF Model and Syntax (1999 Recommendation)

The W3C Advisory Board

The Semantic Web Steering Committee

Antics with Semantics: The Innovation Interview with Semantics Pioneer, Ora Lassila
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