Tomasz Imielinski
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Tomasz Imieliński is a professor of computer science at Rutgers University
and Executive Vice President at Ask.com
. He served as chairman of the computer science department at Rutgers from 1996 to 2003. In 2000, he co-founded Connotate Technologies – a web data extraction company based in New Brunswick, NJ.
His joint paper with Agrawal and Swami started the Association rule mining research area, and is one of the most cited publications in computer science, with over 9400 citations according to Google Scholar. This paper received the 2003 - 10 year Test of Time ACM SIGMOD award.
Imielinski has also been one of the pioneers of mobile computing and for his joint paper with Badri Nath he received the Ten Year VLDB Best Paper award in 2002.
At Ask.com he is leading answer technologies – building the largest index of the questions and answer pairs which recently exceeded 300 million mark.
Imielinski has been also a founder and member of the band System Crash
where he played guitar and wrote songs.
Imieliński graduated with B.E/M.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Politechnika Gdańska and received a doctorate in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences
, in Poland.
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
and Executive Vice President at Ask.com
Ask.com
Ask is a Q&A focused search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine...
. He served as chairman of the computer science department at Rutgers from 1996 to 2003. In 2000, he co-founded Connotate Technologies – a web data extraction company based in New Brunswick, NJ.
His joint paper with Agrawal and Swami started the Association rule mining research area, and is one of the most cited publications in computer science, with over 9400 citations according to Google Scholar. This paper received the 2003 - 10 year Test of Time ACM SIGMOD award.
Imielinski has also been one of the pioneers of mobile computing and for his joint paper with Badri Nath he received the Ten Year VLDB Best Paper award in 2002.
At Ask.com he is leading answer technologies – building the largest index of the questions and answer pairs which recently exceeded 300 million mark.
Imielinski has been also a founder and member of the band System Crash
System Crash
System Crash is an avant-garde rock group which combines heavy sound with philosophical and political lyrics and multimedia projection of videos and sounds of current world, real and virtual...
where he played guitar and wrote songs.
Imieliński graduated with B.E/M.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Politechnika Gdańska and received a doctorate in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
, in Poland.
External links
- Tomasz Imieliński's Personal Web page at Rutgers University
- List of important publications on computer science
- Interview 2009: Why search engines are far from smart?
- Semantic Search Panel 2009
- article and radio interview 2009
- blog post 2009: What makes a search engine “semantic
- blog post 2009: Answer Farm Technology
- CNET 2009
- System-Crash band’s Web page
- on System-CrashSystem CrashSystem Crash is an avant-garde rock group which combines heavy sound with philosophical and political lyrics and multimedia projection of videos and sounds of current world, real and virtual...
- book: Mobile Computing
- Thomas Imielinski's LinkedIn