Dean Allemang

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Dean Allemang is a computer scientist known for his work on the semantic web. He is the Chief Scientist of TopQuadrant, a Semantic Web company.

Prior to joining TopQuadrant, Dean was the Vice-President of Customer Applications at Synquiry Technologies, where he helped Synquiry's customers understand how the use of semantic technologies could provide measurable benefit in their business processes. Dean has filed two patents on the application of graph matching algorithms to the problems of semantic information interchange. In the Technology Transfer group at Swisscom (formerly Swiss Telecom) he co-invented patented technology for high-level analysis of network switching failures. He is a co-author of the Organization Domain Modeling method, which addresses cultural and social obstacles to semantic modeling, as well as technological ones. Dr. Allemang combines a strong formal background (MSc in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, PhD in Computer Science, Ohio State University) with years of experience applying knowledge-based technologies to real business problems.

Dean has taught classes in Semantic Web technologies since 2004, and has trained 100s of users of RDF, and the Web Ontology Language OWL.

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