User:Novaspivack
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Nova Spivack is President & CEO of Radar Networks, a stealth-mode software company, based in San Francisco, that is developing a new Semantic Web platform and online service.
Nova is also the author of Minding the Planet, a weblog focused on emerging science and technology.
In 1994 Nova co-founded one of the first commercial Internet ventures, EarthWeb, and brought it public in 1998. EarthWeb created Gamelan which later evolved into Developer.com, a leading portal for IT professionals. EarthWeb also acquired Dice.com. Many parts of EarthWeb's content business were sold at the end of the Web 1.0 bubble, and today, what remained continues to function as Dice.com, the leading job board for technology professionals.
Nova produced the first Web sites for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Stock Exchange, and Bertelsmann Music Club and many other large clients.
He has also worked with Thinking Machines, Xerox/Kurzweil, and Individual, as a programmer, marketer and analyst and has advised and angel-invested in several early-stage advanced technology startups through Lucid Ventures, his early-stage venture development company.
Nova has consulted to SRI International and Sarnoff Laboratories, to form their incubator, nVention, and more recently has worked on ontologies, software architectures and user-interfaces for the Semantic Web with SRI and DARPA on the CALO project -- a major initiative to develop next-generation agents for learning, collaboration and knowledge work assistance.
Nova is the grandson of Peter Drucker and shares strong interests in improving group cognition, innovation, and knowledge work.
Nova is also the co-founder of The San Francisco Web Innovators Network (SFWIN), a group of 400 Web technology leaders who meet once a month for business networking.
Nova studied philosophy with a focus on artificial intelligence, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science, at Oberlin. He has done independent cellular-automata and complex systems research at MIT, and he did graduate study at The International Space University, which led to his flight to the edge of space and zero gravity training with Space Adventures, in Russia in 1999. Nova founded Lucid Ventures, an early-stage venture incubator, in 1999.
Nova has been active in studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism since 1992. His other interests include physics, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, biology, alternative medicine, philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, search and data mining, international travel, cellular automata, scientific anomalies, alternative energy, and emerging technology.
