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Founder: Jacek R. Ambroziak, Ph.D.
Jacek has over 20 years of practice in addressing software challenges with innovation.
His interests has always circled around computational treatment of knowledge
(AI, Expert Systems) and structured documents (Information Retrieval,
Natural Language Semantics, XML). A common theme to all the systems he authored
has always been high performance. Performance has the power of turning valuable
functionality into practically relevant solutions: underperformers become
history.
- Recent history: XSLT optimization and compilation to Java bytecodes since early 2000 at Sun
Microsystems' XML Technology Center. System architecture, XML data model
representations, exploration of the boundary between the compiler and its
runtime, taking XML/XSLT wireless. Companies: Sun (XSLTC), Crossgain/BEA,
Ambrosoft (Gregor XSLT Framework).
- Sun Microstystems Labs: Conceptual Indexing project led by Bill
Woods. 6 years of ConceptStore classifier programming and continuous
refactoring: LISP, then C++. Java search engine (used in JavaHelp), XML
search engine. ConceptStore is a great example of a system where lack of
adequate performance would mean the death of a beautiful idea. Also a good
example of a system where performance 'tricks' do not occur naturally but
are hard won over a course of many experiments. 4 US Patents for the
innovative search engine, BrowseGuide ("Conceptually Assisted
Web Browsing"), and XSLT-directed indexing of XML documents.
- Polish Academy of Sciences and Cornell University: a 5-year investment
into small, fast and portable C implementation of an expert system toolkit
utilizing the blackboard architecture and other most advanced AI techniques
of the day. The system now screams on the Sharp Zaurus PDA: it's second
youth is coming: intelligent mobile applications.
- Prehistory: Artificial Intelligence, symbolic logic: several years
of LISP programming.
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