David Wood is a Partner of Zepheira, LLC which provides solutions to effectively integrate, navigate and manage data across personal, group and enterprise boundaries. David recommends the application of disruptive technologies to maximize business opportunities.
David has been involved with the development of Semantic Web standards, tools, products and services since 1999. He co-chaired the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group at the W3C, and remains a member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is a founding member of the Kowari Metastore and Mulgara Semantic Store Open Source Software projects.
Most recently, David was entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIND Laboratory within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He lead the implementation team for the Policy-Aware Web project, which developed a next generation access control system for the World Wide Web.
David founded Tucana Technologies, Inc., a purveyor of a Semantic Web database purchased by Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2005. Prior to Tucana, David founded Plugged In Software, a successful software services firm in Australia from 1995-2002.
David is an adjunct instructor of Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington and researches the application of recombinant data techniques to software maintenance at The University of Queensland.
David may be reached at david at zepheira dot com or +1.866.725.9033.
Recent news stories related to David:
Zepheira Featured in Talis Podcast on Mulgara
1. 1 May 2007 Zepheira partner David Wood discusses the past, present and future of the Mulgara Semantic Store with Talis.
Making Semantics Work For Business workshop at ESWC 2007
3. 23 April 2007 David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, has been invited to join the program committe for the workshop Making Semantics Work For Business, to be held in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2007. This workshop aims to solicit demonstrations of semantic technologies solving real business problems and is being organized by Lyndon Nixon of Free University Berlin, Roberta Cuel of University of Trento and David de Francisco of Telefonica, Spain.
