Thomas Gruber
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Intraspect
Email: gruber@intraspect.com
Tom brings over 15 years experience as
a high tech visionary to Intraspect. Known as a leading innovator
in intelligent systems and knowledge sharing technologies, Gruber
is chief designer and architect for the Intraspect product line
and is responsible for the company's technical direction.
Prior to Intraspect, Gruber was a research
scientist at Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory and
senior project leader for Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT).
As a pioneer in the use of the World Wide Web for widespread knowledge
sharing and collaboration, Gruber created the "ARPA Knowledge
Sharing Library," a WWW-based digital library and public repository
of reusable software and knowledge bases. He led the Stanford team
that invented and deployed the first virtual document applications
on the WWW that generate natural language explanations in response
to questions.
With colleagues at Stanford, EIT, Xerox
PARC, and SRI, he designed systems that provide shared virtual
spaces for collaborative work, agent-based collaborative engineering,
and a proposed national electronic marketplace for collaborative
learning technologies. To support the collaboration involved in
these widely distributed projects, he designed and developed the
widely used "HyperMail," which turns ordinary electronic
mail into a group memory on the WWW. HyperMail was used, for example,
as the web archive for email discussions such as WWW-talk that
would shape the standards and software of the web as we know it
today.
Gruber received a B.S. degree in
psychology and computer science from Loyola University (New Orleans)
in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from
the University of Massachusetts in 1983 and 1988 respectively. |