Search Wizards Speak
Conference presentations about search and retrieval, text mining, and content processing are often little more than sales pitches. In the last 30 years, I've met a number of people who have made significant contributions to information retrieval. What I want to do is periodically interview some of the more interesting "search wizards". Most of these people do not think of themselves as "wizards". Most work dilligently to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Search is a complicated discipline, and it is a full-time job to keep up with developments.
Check this page for new interviews or watch for postings on the Beyond Search Web log.
Sort: By Date | By Company
| Interview Subject | Company | Date of Interview |
| Mark Brandon | Qbox | July 2, 2014 |
| Oleg Rogynskyy | Semantria | October 22, 2013 |
| Andrew Smith | Leximancer | July 23, 2013 |
| Jean-Luc Marini | Search'XPR | June 18, 2013 |
| Chen Li & Dev Bhatia | SRCH2 | June 4, 2013 |
| Antonio S. Valderrábanos | Bitext | March 20, 2013 |
| Mark Bennett | LucidWorks | March 4, 2013 |
| Luc Manigot | Sinequa | February 25, 2013 |
| Tom Reamy | KAPS Group | February 19, 2013 |
| Miles Kehoe | LucidWorks | January 29, 2013 |
| Jerry Lucas | Telestrategies | January 15, 2013 |
| Russ Couturier | Cybertap | December 4, 2012 |
| Mike Sorah | Rosoka | November 21, 2012 |
| Christopher Westphal | Visual Analytics | November 6, 2012 |
| Runar Buvik | Searchdaimon | October 9, 2012 |
| Franz Kögl | IntraFind AG | July 10, 2012 |
| Bjørn Laukli | Comperio | May 31, 2012 |
| Paul Doscher | LucidWorks | April 16, 2012 |
| Jerry Lucas | Telestrategies | November 14, 2011 |
| Raphael Perez | OpenSearchServer | October 31, 2011 |
| Ric Upton | Digital Reasoning (3) | September 20, 2011 |
| Feivi Arnstein | SearchLion | August 2, 2011 |
| Margie Hlava | Access Innovations | July 19, 2011 |
| Laurent Couillard | Dassault Exalead | June 28, 2011 |
| François Bourdoncle | Dassault Exalead | May 3, 2011 |
| Christopher Ahlberg | Recorded Future | April 5, 2011 |
| Kamran Khan | Search Technologies | March 15, 2011 |
| David Patterson | Sophia Search | March 1, 2011 |
| Per & Susanne Koch | Pandia | February 1, 2011 |
| Dinesh Vadhia | Xyggy | January 25, 2011 |
| Sam Brooks | EBSCO Publishing | January 18, 2011 |
| Brian Pinkerton | LucidWorks | December 21, 2010 |
| Stefan Andreasen | Kapow Software | December 14, 2010 |
| Tim Estes | Digital Reasoning (2) | December 7, 2010 |
| Craig Bassin | EasyAsk | November 16, 2010 |
| Fernando Lucini | Autonomy | November 15, 2010 |
| Oleg Shilovitsky | Inforbix | November 3, 2010 |
| Quentin Gallivan | Aster Data | September 22, 2010 |
| Otis Gospodnetic | Sematext | September 15, 2010 |
| Mike Horowitz | Fetch | July 14, 2010 |
| Bill Dimm | Hot Neuron | March 23, 2010 |
| Tim Estes | Digital Reasoning | February 2, 2010 |
| Benno Nieswand | Exorbyte | November 10, 2009 |
| William Bushee | BrightPlanet | October 6, 2009 |
| Søren Pallesen | SurfRay | September 29, 2009 |
| Emeka Akaezuwa | Gaviri Technologies | September 8, 2009 |
| Daniel Fallmann | Mindbreeze | September 3, 2009 |
| François Schiettecatte | FS Consulting | June 2, 2009 |
| Bjørn Laukli | Comperio | May 28, 2009 |
| Nicolas Maquaire | EntropySoft | March 25, 2009 |
| Marc Krellenstein | LucidWorks | March 17, 2009 |
| Guy Mounier | BA-Insight | February 2, 2009 |
| Richard Padley | Semantico | January 19, 2009 |
| Norbert Weitkämper | Weitkämper Technology | January 12, 2009 |
| Michael Weiner | Technology Innovations | January 6, 2009 |
| Luca Scagliarini | Expert System | December 18, 2008 |
| Hans-Christian Brockmann | Brox IT-Solutions GmbH | December 5, 2008 |
| Scott Coles | ISYS Search Software | December 1, 2008 |
| Ken Ebert | Perfect Search | November 25, 2008 |
| Andrew Kanter | Autonomy | November 18, 2008 |
| Martin White | Intranet Focus | November 10, 2008 |
| Riza C. Berkan | Hakia | August 12, 2008 |
| Alex Zivkovic | Sprylogics | August 4, 2008 |
| David Hawking | Funnelback | July 28, 2008 |
| Miles Kehoe | New Idea Engineering | July 21, 2008 |
| Charlie Hull | Lemur Consulting | July 8, 2008 |
| Sergei Ananyan | Megaputer | June 23, 2008 |
| Dave Kellogg | Mark Logic | June 17, 2008 |
| Mats Bjore | Silobreaker | June 12, 2008 |
| Abe Lederman | Deep Web Technologies | June 10, 2008 |
| David Seuss | Northern Light | June 2, 2008 |
| Ali Riaz | Attivio | May 26, 2008 |
| Olivier Lefassy | PolySpot | May 19, 2008 |
| Iqbal & Zubair Talib | Intelligenx | May 12, 2008 |
| Johannes Scholtes | ZyLAB | May 5, 2008 |
| David Chaplin | Kroll | April 28, 2008 |
| Jean Ferré | Sinequa | April 21, 2008 |
| Antonio S. Valderrábanos | Bitext | April 14, 2008 |
| John Turnbull | Thunderstone | April 7, 2008 |
| James Zubok | Brainware | March 31, 2008 |
| Raul Valdes-Perez & Jerome Pesenti | Vivísimo | March 24, 2008 |
| Pete Bell | Endeca | March 17, 2008 |
| Laurent Simoneau | Coveo Solutions Inc. | March 11, 2008 |
| Ian Davies | ISYS Search Software | March 5, 2008 |
| François Bourdoncle | Exalead | February 25, 2008 |
| Alan Feuer, Ph.D. | Blossom Software | February 18, 2008 |