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 SIS
is pleased to announce that Raul Valdes-Perez, Chief
Executive Officer, Vivísimo, will be the keynote
speaker at the i-fest.pitt.edu luncheon. The luncheon
and presentation will take place on Thursday, November
9th, at 12:00 noon in the Ballroom of the William Pitt
Union. Dr. Valdes-Perez will discuss the successful
company’s founding, innovative information search
products, and the challenges in the search industry.
Vivísimo was originally founded in 2000 by three
Carnegie Mellon University scientists (including Valdes-Perez)
who decided to tackle the problem of information overload
in web searches by developing new technology to organize
unwieldy search results in a completely innovative way.
They used a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic
knowledge to find relationships between search terms
and bring them to light. Over the years, the company
has built upon the original technology of document clustering
with the same guiding principle of using technology to
help users conquer information overload and harness the
true power of search.
Dr. Valdes-Perez has led Vivísimo since its inception.
During his tenure, he has been recognized as a top ten
reader favorite for entrepreneur of the year by Inc.
magazine, a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh
Technology Council, and three times as one of the fifty
most important Hispanics in business and technology by
Hispanic Engineer magazine. Before Vivísimo, Valdes-Perez
was on the Carnegie Mellon University computer science
department faculty since 1991; he is now an adjunct associate
professor. His research on new methods and applications
of knowledge discovery led to publishing nearly 50 journal
articles in natural, social and computer science. He
was a principal investigator on six grants from the National
Science Foundation, served on its advisory committee
for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and was
an action editor of the journal Machine Learning. Raul
received a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon
and B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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