Working to make biological knowledge available on the Semantic Web
Greater Boston Area
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- Principal Scientist at Science Commons
- Past
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- Senior Scientist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
- Software Consultant at Interval
- Software Engineer at Thinking Machines
- Software Consultant at Apple Computer
- Contractor at Microelectronics and Computer Corporation
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Media Lab
- Brandeis University
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Alan Ruttenberg’s Summary
Experienced leader and contributor. Works with Semantic Web technologies in computational biology, with an emphasis on the creation and application of structured biological knowledge to interpret experimental results. Writing software for 25 years in areas including bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, user interface, numeric computing, parallel computing, real-time processing, multimedia, and programming environments. Comfortable working with scientists and engineers, business and legal departments.
Alan Ruttenberg’s Specialties:
Pathway knowledge representation, computational biology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, rich user interface, parallel computing.
Alan Ruttenberg’s Experience
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Principal Scientist
Science Commons
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Science Commons serves the advancement of science by removing unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation. I work on the sc-data project which, initially with the neurocommons, will be building and publishing structured biological knowledge in OWL and developing tools to query and apply this knowledge in the area of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Senior Scientist
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MLNM; Biotechnology industry)
April 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 9 months)
Computational biology applications with focus on building a database of protein functional interactions and developing applications that use this to analyze experimental data. Extensive experience with Ingenuity system knowledge base. Team management. Licensing.
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Software Consultant
Interval
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years)
Implemented an advanced multimedia authoring environment which let the user hook up various sorts of signal processing that extracted semantic information to create and edit movies. For example for music you could detect the beat and in movies detect the scene breaks. Using that information one could create an MTV like music video with very little effort
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Software Engineer
Thinking Machines
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
1987 — 1992 (5 years)
Worked in the numerical computing group on scientific and mathematical programming writing in languages ranging from microcode to parallel *lisp. Implemented FFT, trigonometric functions and routines for a linear algebra library. Microcoded stencil operations for massively parallel CM2 and coordinated collaborators in compiler and algorithm groups
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Software Consultant
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; APPL; Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1991 (less than a year)
Implemented prototype text editor which had simulated transparent overlays upon which hand-written or typed annotations could be made.
Selected projects in the porting of Macintosh Common lisp to the powerpc. -
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Microelectronics and Computer Corporation
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
1990 — 1990 (less than a year)
Ported CYC common sense database to Macintosh. Designed and implemented new graphical user interface. Worked on system interface and knowledge acquisition for their large common sense knowledge base.
Alan Ruttenberg’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master, Artificial Intelligence, Music, 1988 — 1991
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MIT Media Lab
Music and Cognition 1987 — 1991
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Brandeis University
Bachelor, Physics, Mathematics, 1980 — 1984
Additional Information
Alan Ruttenberg’s Websites:
Alan Ruttenberg’s Groups:
Co-Chair, W3C OWL Working Group
Coordinating Editor, OBO Foundry
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Text Analytics
Alan Ruttenberg’s Honors:
BioIT World 2003 Grand Prize for best practices in Discovery and Development for the development of PARIS.
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/071503/practices_discovery.html
Alan Ruttenberg’s Contact Settings
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