Entrepreneur, Emeritus Professor
United Kingdom
- Current
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- CEO at ClustrMaps Ltd
- CEO at Meetomatic Ltd.
- Past
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- Director, Chief Scientist - Knowledge Media Institute at Open University
- Lecturer, Senior Lectuer, Professor at Open University
- Visiting Scientist at Apple Computer
- Education
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- University of Edinburgh
- University of California, San Diego
- Washington University in St. Louis
- University of Chicago
- Recommended
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Marc Eisenstadt’s Summary
Before retiring from academic life and becoming an entrepreneur in 2008, Marc Eisenstadt was Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Scientist at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), an R&D division of the UK’s Open University, one of the world’s largest and foremost distance learning and elearning establishments.
Marc has since co-founded two Internet startups: ClustrMaps (a compact and very scalable hit counter map widget), and Meetomatic ("The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler"). The former delivers over 5 million widget views per day and brings a sense of global community to more than half a million bloggers and website owners, while the latter adds an immediate measure of sanity to the hectic scheduling lives of thousands of individuals and organizations worldwide.
Marc Eisenstadt’s Experience
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CEO
ClustrMaps Ltd
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
ClustrMaps is a compact geographical hit counter widget: the fastest and most scalable in its class!
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CEO
Meetomatic Ltd.
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Meetomatic, "The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler", is consistently in the top 5 Google search results for meeting scheduler. We make it possible to arrange very complex meetings in just minutes using an easy-to-fill form on the web.
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Director, Chief Scientist - Knowledge Media Institute
Open University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 1995 — December 2007 (13 years )
KMi is a major R&D lab at the UK Open University, specializing in research and large-scale deployment in the areas of semantic web, new media, knowledge technologies and elearning. I co-founded KMi in late 1994, and undertook a large number of projects on software visualization, social software, intelligent agents, groupware, elearning, massively multiplayer games and virtual presence.
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Lecturer, Senior Lectuer, Professor
Open University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 1976 — December 1994 (19 years )
Succession of posts undertaking Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence teaching and research in Prof. Judith Greene's Psychology Department and the Human Cognition Research Laboratory at The Open University. Main focus of research and publications: novice programming environments
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Visiting Scientist
Apple Computer
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1992 — 1992 (less than a year)
Worked with Mark Miller's team in the Advanced Technology Group, analysing end-user scripting behaviour in SK8 and HyperTalk.
Marc Eisenstadt’s Education
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University of Edinburgh
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow , Department of Aritificial Intelligence , 1974 — 1975
- Activities and Societies:
- Worked on natural language parsing and understanding. Undertook a rational reconstruction of some well-known conceptual and semantic parsers of the mid-70's to show that they were special cases of a common approach.
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University of California, San Diego
PhD , Cognitive Science , 1970 — 1974
Built computer simulation models of human game playing; thesis supervised by Prof Donald A. Norman - mentor extraordinaire. The work was heavily influenced by the 1970's problem solving research of Newell & Simon and the semantic network research of Norman, Rumelhart & The LNR Research Group at UCSD. My great fortune that Don and his wonderful group took me in.
- Activities and Societies:
- Lived for a while in Jef Raskin's house in Solana Beach. Google Jef if you don't already know about him. He was the inspiration for my later work on novice programming environments.
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Washington University in St. Louis
B.A. , Psychology and Neurobiology , 1970
- Activities and Societies:
- Worked with Dr. Sansar Sharma in the labs of Profs. Tom Sandel and Viktor Hamburger on the origin of motility in chick embryos.
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University of Chicago
Mathematics and Social Sciences 1965 — 1967
At 17, I was too young to appreciate this great institution of higher learning: I transferred out after my second year.
- Activities and Societies:
- Psi Upsilon
Additional Information
Marc Eisenstadt’s Websites:
Marc Eisenstadt’s Interests:
Sailing (working towards Yachtmaster), Blues/country guitar
Marc Eisenstadt’s Honors:
Emeritus Professorship awarded, The Open University, 2008
RYA Day Skipper, 2006
