Wizards Index

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 diligently 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.

Last updated January 29, 2013

Interview Subject	Company	Date of Interview
Seth Grimes	Alta Plana	June 9, 2010
Quentin Gallivan	Aster Data	September 22, 2010
Ali Riaz	Attivio	May 26, 2008
Andrew Kanter	Autonomy	November 18, 2008
Fernando Lucini	Autonomy	November 15, 2010
Guy Mounier	BA-Insight	February 2, 2009
Antonio S. Valderrábanos	Bitext	March 20, 2013
Antonio S. Valderrábanos	Bitext	April 14, 2008
Alan Feuer, Ph.D.	Blossom Software	February 18, 2008
James Zubok	Brainware	March 31, 2008
William Bushee	BrightPlanet	October 6, 2009
Hans-Christian Brockmann	Brox IT-Solutions GmbH	December 5, 2008
Bjørn Laukli	Comperio	May 28, 2009
Bjørn Laukli	Comperio	May 31, 2012
Laurent Simoneau	Coveo Solutions Inc.	March 11, 2008
Russ Couturier	Cybertap	December 4, 2012
Laurent Couillard	Dassault Exalead	June 28, 2011
François Bourdoncle	Dassault Exalead	May 3, 2011
Abe Lederman	Deep Web Technologies	June 10, 2008
Tim Estes	Digital Reasoning	February 2, 2010
Tim Estes	Digital Reasoning (2)	December 7, 2010
Ric Upton	Digital Reasoning (3)	September 20, 2011
Craig Bassin	EasyAsk	November 16, 2010
Sam Brooks	EBSCO Publishing	Januaryr 18, 2011
Pete Bell	Endeca	March 17, 2008
Nicolas Maquaire	EntropySoft	March 25, 2009
François Bourdoncle	Exalead	February 25, 2008
Benno Nieswand	Exorbyte	November 10, 2009
Luca Scagliarini	Expert System	December 18, 2008
François Schiettecatte	FS Consulting	June 2, 2009
David Hawking	Funnelback	July 28, 2008
Emeka Akaezuwa	Gaviri Technologies	September 8, 2009
Riza C. Berkan	Hakia	August 12, 2008
Bill Dimm	Hot Neuron	March 23, 2010
Oleg Shilovitsky	Inforbix	November 3, 2010
Iqbal & Zubair Talib	Intelligenx	May 12, 2008
Franz Kögl	IntraFind AG	July 10, 2012
Martin White	Intranet Focus	November 10, 2008
Ian Davies	ISYS Search Software	March 5, 2008
Scott Coles	ISYS Search Software	December 1, 2008
Stefan Andreasen	Kapow Software	December 14, 2010
Tom Reamy	KAPS Group	February 19, 2013
David Chaplin	Kroll	April 28, 2008
Charlie Hull	Lemur Consulting	July 8, 2008
Mark Bennett	LucidWorks	March 4, 2013
Miles Kehoe	LucidWorks	January 29, 2013
Paul Doscher	LucidWorks	April 16, 2012
Brian Pinkerton	LucidWorks	December 21, 2010
Marc Krellenstein	Lucid Imagination	March 17, 2009
Dave Kellogg	Mark Logic	June 17, 2008
Sergei Ananyan	Megaputer	June 23, 2008
Daniel Fallmann	Mindbreeze	September 3, 2009
Miles Kehoe	New Idea Engineering	July 21, 2008
David Seuss	Northern Light	June 2, 2008
Raphel Pereze	OpenSearchServer	October 31, 2011
Ken Ebert	Perfect Search	November 25, 2008
Olivier Lefassy	PolySpot	May 19, 2008
Christopher Ahlberg	Recorded Future	April 5, 2011
Mike Sorah	Rosoka	November 21, 2012
Runar Buvik	Searchdaimon	October 9, 2012
Feivi Arnstein	SearchLion	August 2, 2011
Kamran Khan	Search Technologies	March 15, 2011
Jean-Luc Marini	Search’XPR	June 18, 2013
Richard Padley	Semantico	January 19, 2009
Oleg Rogynskyy	Semantria	October 22, 2013
Otis Gospodnetic	Sematext	September 15, 2010
Mats Bjore	Silobreaker	June 12, 2008
Luc Manigot	Sinequa	February 25, 2013
Jean Ferré	Sinequa	April 21, 2008
David Patterson	Sophia Search	March 1, 2011
Ana Athayde	Spotter	August 16, 2011
Alex Zivkovic	Sprylogics	August 4, 2008
Chen Li & Dev Bhatia	SRCH2	June 4, 2013
Søren Pallesen	SurfRay	September 29, 2009
Michael Weiner	Technology Innovations	January 6, 2009
Jerry Lucas	Telestrategies	November 14, 2011
Jerry Lucas	Telestrategies	January 15, 2013
John Turnbull	Thunderstone	April 7, 2008
Christopher Westphal	Visual Analytics	November 6, 2012
Raul Valdes-Perez & Jerome Pesenti	Vivísimo	March 24, 2008
Norbert Weitkämper	Weitkämper Technology	January 12, 2009
Dinesh Vadhia	Xyggy	January 25, 2011
Johannes Scholtes	ZyLAB	May 5, 2008

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.