Semantic Summer in Full Swing
by Kendall Clark
When we announced our 2007 internship program, Semantic Summer, we didn’t expect to receive more applications than we had open slots. But that’s what happened, and we’re pretty happy about it.
We accepted 5 applicants:
- Ron Alford is working this summer on improving the DL Safe Rules support in Pellet; and on OWLSight—our unreleased Web 2.0-style ontology tool: it’s GWT in front of Pellet, essentially. Ron starts his MS at UMD in the fall.
- Christian Halaschek-Wiener is working on incremental reasoning in Pellet this summer with Mike Smith and Evren. Christian is finishing his PhD at UMD this fall.
- Pavel Klinov is working on probabilistic reasoning in Pellet with Bijan, Evren, and Mike. Pavel is a PhD student at University of Cincinnati.
- Vlad Kolovski is working on policy management in Pellet. Vlad’s also finsihing his PhD at UMD.
- Petr Křemen will be working in the fall on SPARQL-DL query evaluation in Pellet. Petr’s presently a grad student and researcher at Czech Technical University in Prague.
It’s a UMD-heavy list, since that’s where most of us come from, but we’re especially happy to have some European computer scientists joining us, too. We’re very bullish about the future of Pellet, OWL, Description Logics, and semantic technology generaly in the EU.
