Mike Bergman

Current

• CEO at Zitgist LLC
• Editor at UMBEL
• Author at AI3::Adaptive Information Blog

Past

• Chairman, CEO or CTO at BrightPlanet
• CEO and Chairman at VisualMetrics Corporation
• President at Instar Community Services

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Education

• Duke University
• Pomona College
• University of California, Santa Barbara

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Connections

126 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• UMBEL

Mike Bergman’s Summary

CEO of Zitgist, a provider of quality Linked Data products and services for the semantic Web;

Editor of the lightweight UMBEL ontology, a reference structure of subject concepts for the Web;

Previous experience as an independent consultant, a Web scientist, and an entrepreneur;

Founder and/or CEO of four information management software companies; sustained profitability; total of ~ $10 M in venture capital raised

Innovator in alternative energy commercialization in the 1970s to early 1990s.

Mike Bergman’s Specialties:

Software development and management experience: Linked Data and semantic Web technologies, Internet search tools, semi-structured data, data warehousing, bioinformatics, platform-independent user interfaces, accounting, finance, management, planning, electronic mapping and technical areas; accomplished writer; noted speaker.

Additional Information

Mike Bergman’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• UMBEL

Mike Bergman’s Interests:

semantic web, linked data, information science, information history, deep web, evolution, library science, data visualization, management, cooking

Mike Bergman’s Groups:

•    Pomona College Alumni
•    Semantic Web
•    Silobreaker
•    Linked Data Web
•    OWL/RDF
•    UMBEL - Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
•    Semantic Web Research
•    Semantic Technologies Group
•    ResearchCyclists