Mike Dean (162M)
Michael Dean August 7, 1961 - November 19, 2014 (4EWM)
Previously, Principal Scientist Raytheon BBN Technologies Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (162N)
Among other roles, Mike was (4EWN)
- a Member of the ONTOLOG_BoT - ONTOLOG_BoardOfTrustees (2014) (4EWO)
- Chair of the DARPA DAML Program* Joint Committee (Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee) (*2000~2006) (4EWP)
- a member of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group (2002-2004) (4EWY)
- this is the working group that developed the OWL Web Ontology Language, for which Mike was a co-editor (4EWZ)
- a Member of the Steering Committee of the annual Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security (STIDS) (since the steering committee's founding in 2010) (4EWT)
- the STIDS Conference organizers have established an annual "Michael Dean Best Paper Award" to reward the paper that best exemplifies the qualities that made Mike such a productive and respected member of the semantic technology community. See: http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/award2014.php (4EWU)
- Symposium Co-Chair for OntologySummit2013: Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle (4EWR)
- ... he has made key contributions, and took on leadership roles in the semantic web, ontology and artificial intelligence communities - in the Ontolog SemanticWiki, EarthScienceOntolog & RulesReasoningLP mini-series'; SOCoP (Spatial Ontology CoP); W3C/RIF Working Group; and the OntologySummit program. (4EWS)