Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni
Born 1964 (age 53–54)
New York
Residence Seattle, WA
Citizenship American
Alma mater Harvard University (BA 1986)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD 1991)
Awards AAAI Fellow (2003)
Scientific career
Fields computer science
Institutions Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
University of Washington
Doctoral advisor Tom M. Mitchell

Oren Etzioni (born 1964 in New York City, N.Y.)[1] is an American entrepreneur, professor of Computer Science, and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.[2][3][4][5] He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1991, where he became the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In May 2005, he founded and became the director of the University's Turing Center.[6] The Center investigates problems in data mining, natural language processing, the Semantic Web and other web search topics.[7] He coined the term machine reading[8] and created the first commercial comparison shopping agent.

Education

Etzioni was the first student to major in computer science at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. He earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in January, 1991, supervised by Tom M. Mitchell.[6]

Research

Etzioni's research is focused on basic problems in the study of intelligence, machine reading, machine learning and web search.[6] Past projects include Internet Softbots---the study of intelligent agents in the context of real-world software testbeds. In 2003, he started the KnowItAll project for acquiring massive amounts of information from the Web.[6] In 2015, he helped to create the Semantic Scholar Scientific Search Engine.

Business

Etzioni is an entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded several business ventures, including MetaCrawler (bought by Infospace), Netbot (bought by Excite), and ClearForest (bought by Reuters). He founded Farecast, a travel metasearch and price prediction site, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. He co-founded Decide, a company whose website Decide.com helped consumers make buying decisions using previous price history and recommendations from other users. Decide.com was bought by eBay in September, 2013. He is also a venture partner at the Madrona Venture Group.[9]

Awards and recognition

In 1993, Etzioni received a National Young Investigator Award.[6]

In 2003, Etzioni was elected as AAAI Fellow.[6]

In 2005, Etzioni received an IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award for "A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction".[6]

In 2007, he received the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award.[6]

In January 2012, Etzioni was featured as GeekWire's "Geek of the Week".[10]

In May 2013 Etzioni was voted "Geek of the Year" through GeekWire.[11]

Selected publications

  • Etzioni, Oren (August 4, 2011). "Web Search Needs a Shakeup" (PDF). Nature. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (December 9, 2014). "AI Won't Exterminate Us – It Will Empower Us". Backchannel. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (April 8, 2016). "Quora Session with Oren Etzioni". Quora. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (June 15, 2016). "Deep Learning Isn't a Dangerous Magic Genie. It's Just Math". Wired. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (July 6, 2017). "Artificial intelligence: AI Zooms in on highly influential citations". Nature. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (September 1, 2017). "How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence". The New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (November 2, 2017). "Workers Displaced by Automation Should Try A New Job: Caregiver". Wired. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (March 14, 2018). "A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners". Tech Crunch. Retrieved March 29, 2018.

Academic Publications

  • Etzioni, Oren (July 1994). "A Softbot-based Interface to the Internet" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Etzioni, Oren (December 2008). "Open Information Extraction from the Web" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  • Zamir, Oren; Etzioni, Oren (1998). "Web document clustering: a feasibility demonstration". SIGIR '98 Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. ACM: 46–54. doi:10.1145/290941.290956. ISBN 1-58113-015-5.
  • Zamir, Oren; Etzioni, Oren (May 1999). "Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results". Computer Networks. Elsevier. 31 (11–16): 1361–1374. doi:10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00054-7.
  • Popescu, Ana-Maria; Etzioni, Oren (2005). "Extracting product features and opinions from reviews". HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. ACM: 339–346. doi:10.3115/1220575.1220618.
  • Etzioni, Oren; Cafarella, Michael; Downey, Doug; Popescu, Ana-Maria; Shaked, Tal; Sonderland, Stephen; Weld, Daniel; Yates, Alexander (June 2005). "Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study". Artificial Intelligence. Elsevier. 165 (1): 91–134. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2005.03.001.
  • Downey, Doug; Etzioni, Oren; Sonderland, Stephen (July 2010). "Grouper: Analysis of a probabilistic model of redundancy in unsupervised information extraction". Artificial Intelligence. Elsevier. 174 (11): 726–748. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2010.04.024.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180807001518/https://www.washingtonjewishmuseum.org/he-does-what-he-wanted-to-do-when-he-grew-up-kind-of/
  2. ↑ "Team — Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence". allenai.org. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  3. ↑ Romano, Benjamin (September 4, 2013). "Paul Allen Hires Oren Etzioni for New Artificial Intelligence Push". Xconomy. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ "UW Professor Oren Etzioni To Lead Paul Allen's New Artificial Intelligence Institute". KUOW. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Deep Learning And Artifical [sic] Intelligence - The Diane Rehm Show". The Diane Rehm Show. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Oren Etzioni". University of Washington. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Turing Center at University of Washington". University of Washington. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Etzioni, Oren; Banko, Michelle; Carafella, Michael (2006). "Machine Reading" (PDF). AAAI: 1517–1519.
  9. ↑ "oren etizoni: Venture Partner". Madrona.com. Madrona Venture Group. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ Bishop, Todd (January 19, 2012). "Geek of the Week: Oren Etzioni on Siri, Burning Man and the promise of algorithms". GeekWire. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ Soper, Taylor (May 9, 2013). "Revealed: The winners of the 2013 GeekWire Awards". GeekWire. Retrieved November 12, 2013.

Further reading

  • Clifford, Stephanie (November 24, 2011). "Friday's Deals May Not Be the Best". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  • Lohr, Steve (August 4, 2011). "A Call to Rethink Internet Search". Bits. The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  • Sivitz, Larry (October 15, 2005). "UW Professor Oren Etzioni, inventor of Metacrawler, NetBot, and now Hamlet, is a Virtual PhD of Webology". Seattle 24x7. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  • Tompa, Rachel (February 19, 2009). "UW Computer Scientist Oren Etzioni on Startups, Venture Capital, and the Future of Web Search". Xconomy. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  • Wingfield, Nick (July 7, 2012). "A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
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