"Sharing the Knowledge"

International CIDOC CRM Symposium

March 26 - 27, 2003

Thomas Gruber

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Intraspect

Email: gruber@intraspect.com

Tom brings over 15 years experience as a high tech visionary to Intraspect. Known as a leading innovator in intelligent systems and knowledge sharing technologies, Gruber is chief designer and architect for the Intraspect product line and is responsible for the company's technical direction.

Prior to Intraspect, Gruber was a research scientist at Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory and senior project leader for Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT). As a pioneer in the use of the World Wide Web for widespread knowledge sharing and collaboration, Gruber created the "ARPA Knowledge Sharing Library," a WWW-based digital library and public repository of reusable software and knowledge bases. He led the Stanford team that invented and deployed the first virtual document applications on the WWW that generate natural language explanations in response to questions.

With colleagues at Stanford, EIT, Xerox PARC, and SRI, he designed systems that provide shared virtual spaces for collaborative work, agent-based collaborative engineering, and a proposed national electronic marketplace for collaborative learning technologies. To support the collaboration involved in these widely distributed projects, he designed and developed the widely used "HyperMail," which turns ordinary electronic mail into a group memory on the WWW. HyperMail was used, for example, as the web archive for email discussions such as WWW-talk that would shape the standards and software of the web as we know it today.

Gruber received a B.S. degree in psychology and computer science from Loyola University (New Orleans) in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1983 and 1988 respectively.