Juan Sequeda
29 November 2019, 10:30-11:30
ENS, S16
A Brief History of Knowledge Graph’s Main Ideas
Knowledge Graphs can be considered to be fulfilling an early vision in Computer Science of creating intelligent systems that integrate knowledge and data at large scale. The term “Knowledge Graph” has rapidly gained popularity in academia and industry since Google popularized it in 2012. It is paramount to note that, regardless of the discussions on, and definitions of the “Knowledge Graph” term, it stems from scientific advancements in diverse research areas such as Semantic Web, Databases, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, NLP, Machine Learning, among others.
The integration of ideas and techniques from such disparate disciplines give the richness to the notion of Knowledge Graph, but at the same time presents a challenge to practitioners and researchers to know how current advances develop from, and are rooted in, early techniques.
In this talk, Juan will provide a historical context on the roots of Knowledge Graphs grounded in the advancements of the computer science disciplines of Knowledge, Data and the combination thereof, starting from the 1950s.
For more details, please read the paper: http://knowledgegraph.today/paper.html
Bio: Juan F. Sequeda is the Principal Scientist at data.world. He joined through the acquisition of Capsenta, a company he founded as a spin-off from his research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
Juan is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, received 2nd Place in the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge for his work on ConstituteProject.org, Best Student Research Paper at the 2014 International Semantic Web Conference, the 2015 Best Transfer and Innovation Project awarded by the Institute for Applied Informatics and nominated for best papers multiple times. Juan is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Web Semantics, member of multiple program committees (ISWC, ESWC, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI). He was the General Chair of AMW2018, PC chair of ISWC 2017 In-Use track, co-creator of COLD workshop (7 years co-located at ISWC). He has served as a bridge between academia and industry as the current chair of the Property Graph Schema Working Group, member of the Graph Query Languages task force of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) and past invited expert member and standards editor at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Wearing his scientific hat, Juan’s goal is to reliably create knowledge from inscrutable data. His research interests are on the intersection of Logic and Data for (ontology-based) data integration and semantic/graph data management, and what now is called Knowledge Graphs.
Wearing his business hat, Juan is a product manager, does business development and strategy, technical sales and works with customers to understand their problems to translated back to R&D.
