Jack Park
Jack Park
is a computer scientist working in the fields of artificial
and collective intelligence. He created, edited, and coauthored the
book
XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web,
was a
Ph.D. student researching the topic of knowledge federation applied to
hypermedia discourse, and designs and builds software platforms for
knowledge gardening.
Jack was a research scientist at SRI
International
working on their Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO)
project, and authored and coauthored several conference papers on the
subjects of topic mapping and semantic desktop applications for
collective intelligence. He is an avid player of Jane McGonigal’s IBIS
card games. He is now a cofounder of TopicQuests, a foundation
dedicated to the support and evolution of open source knowledge
gardening.
He coauthored
Hypotheses, evidence and relationships: The HypER approach for
representing scientific knowledge claims and
IRIS: Integrate. Relate. Infer. Share.
Read his
LinkedIn profile and his
Meetup profile.
Read his
blog.