Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965)[citation needed] is the creator of widely used web standards such as RSS, RDF and Schema.org. He is also responsible for products such as Google Custom Search. He was a co-founder of Epinions and Alpiri. He worked at Google for nearly two decades, most recently as a Google Fellow, before announcing his departure from the company in August 2024.[3][4][5][6][7]
Ramanathan V. Guha | |
|---|---|
 Ramanathan V. Guha (2013) | |
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59)[citation needed] |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
| Known for | Cyc[2] Schema.org Meta Content Framework Resource Description Framework RSS Datacommons.org |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Data mining |
| Institutions | Google IBM Apple Inc. Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California Berkeley Stanford University |
| Thesis | Contexts: A formalization and some applications (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | John McCarthy Edward Feigenbaum[1] |
| Website | www research |
Education
editGuha did his schooling from Loyola High School, Pune and graduated with Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Master of Science from University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D from Stanford University.[1][8]
Career
editGuha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in collaboration with Douglas Lenat.[2] He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system.[4]
Leaving what became Cycorp, Guha founded Q Technology, which created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish. In 1994, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to Alan Kay, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape where, in collaboration with Tim Bray, he created a new version of MCF that used the XML language and which became the main technical precursor to W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard.[9][10]
Guha also contributed to the "smart browsing" features of Netscape 4.5 and was instrumental in Netscape's acquisition of NewHoo, which Netscape rebranded the Open Directory Project.[11] He created the first version of RSS as part of a move in which the My.Netscape portal was opened to wider participation in March 1999.[12][13] In 1999 he left Netscape and in May co-founded Epinions,[14] where he worked until 2000.[8] Guha founded Alpiri in late 2000 which created TAP,[15] a semantic web application and knowledge base. In 2002, he became a researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center.[8]
In 2005 Guha joined Google and became a Google Fellow. While at Google he has been responsible for Google Custom Search and a number of enhancements to Adwords. He is also one of the founders of Schema.org and Datacommons.org.[8] After nearly two decades with the company, he announced his departure in August 2024.[7]
Awards
editOn January 26, 2013, Guha was named as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.[16]
December 8, 2015 named as a ACM Fellow for contributions to structured data representation and specification and their impact on the Web [17]
References
edit- ^ a b Ramanathan V. Guha at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Guha, R. V.; Lenat, Douglas B. (1990). Building large knowledge-based systems: representation and inference in the Cyc project. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-201-51752-1.
- ^ Guha, R.; McCool, R.; Miller, E. (2003). Semantic search. WWW'03. Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web. pp. 700–709. doi:10.1145/775152.775250. ISBN 1-58113-680-3.
- ^ a b Ramanathan V. Guha at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ Ramanathan V. Guha author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
- ^ Ramanathan V. Guha's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Post by R. Guha on LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ a b c d Guha, R.V. "CV". Guha.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
- ^ Andreessen, Marc (1999-01-08). "Innovators of the Net: R.V. Guha and RDF". Netscape. Archived from the original on February 5, 2008. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ^ Baldazo, Rex (1998-04-15). "The 1st annual Web Innovator Awards - R. V. Guha: Resource Description Framework (RDF)". Builder.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 1999. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ Skrenta, Rich. "About Rich Skrenta". Retrieved April 20, 2014.
- ^ Hines, Matt (1999-03-15). "Netscape Broadens Portal Content Strategy". Newsbytes.
- ^ Afzali, Cyrus (1999-03-15). "Netscape Launches Publishing Program". Internet News. Archived from the original on April 20, 2003. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ Zaret, Elliot (2000-08-18). "The rise and fall of Netscape". ZDNet News. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
- ^ Guha, R.; McCool, R. (August 2003). "TAP: A Semantic Web platform". Comput. Netw. 42 (5): 557–577. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.58.2546. doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00225-1.
- ^ "IIT-M announces awards for distinguished alumni". The New Indian Express. Jan 28, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved Feb 4, 2013.
- ^ "ACM Fellows named for Computing Innovations that are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age" (PDF). Retrieved Dec 9, 2015.
