Ramanathan V. Guha
| Ramanathan V. Guha | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Data mining |
| Institutions |
Google IBM Apple Inc. Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California Berkeley Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
| Thesis | Contexts: A formalization and some applications (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor |
John McCarthy Edward Feigenbaum |
| Known for |
Cyc Schema.org Meta Content Framework Resource Description Framework RSS |
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Website www research |
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Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965) is the creator of widely used web standards such as RSS, RDF and Schema.org. He is also responsible for products such as Google Custom Search. He was a co-founder of Epinions and Alpiri. Until recently, he was a Google Fellow and a vice president in research at Google.
Guha did his schooling from Loyola High School, Pune and graduated with Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Master of Science from University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D from Stanford University.
Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in collaboration with Douglas Lenat. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system.
Leaving what became Cycorp, Guha founded Q Technology, which created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish. In 1994, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to Alan Kay, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape where, in collaboration with Tim Bray, he created a new version of MCF that used the XML language and which became the main technical precursor to W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard.
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