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.

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Interview Subject	Company	Date of Interview
Alan Feuer, Ph.D.	Blossom Software	February 18, 2008
François Bourdoncle	Exalead	February 25, 2008
Ian Davies	ISYS Search Software	March 5, 2008
Laurent Simoneau	Coveo Solutions Inc.	March 11, 2008
Pete Bell	Endeca	March 17, 2008
Raul Valdes-Perez & Jerome Pesenti	Vivísimo	March 24, 2008
James Zubok	Brainware	March 31, 2008
John Turnbull	Thunderstone	April 7, 2008
Antonio S. Valderrábanos	Bitext	April 14, 2008
Jean Ferré	Sinequa	April 21, 2008
David Chaplin	Kroll	April 28, 2008
Johannes Scholtes	ZyLAB	May 5, 2008
Iqbal & Zubair Talib	Intelligenx	May 12, 2008
Olivier Lefassy	PolySpot	May 19, 2008
Ali Riaz	Attivio	May 26, 2008
David Seuss	Northern Light	June 2, 2008
Abe Lederman	Deep Web Technologies	June 10, 2008
Mats Bjore	Silobreaker	June 12, 2008
Dave Kellogg	Mark Logic	June 17, 2008
Sergei Ananyan	Megaputer	June 23, 2008
Charlie Hull	Lemur Consulting	July 8, 2008
Miles Kehoe	New Idea Engineering	July 21, 2008
David Hawking	Funnelback	July 28, 2008
Alex Zivkovic	Sprylogics	August 4, 2008
Riza C. Berkan	Hakia	August 12, 2008