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 |
| Margie Hlava | Access Innovations | July 19, 2011 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Laurent Simoneau | Coveo Solutions Inc. | March 11, 2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| David Chaplin | Kroll | April 28, 2008 |
| Charlie Hull | Lemur Consulting | July 8, 2008 |
| 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 |
| Per & Susanne Koch | Pandia | February 1, 2011 |
| Ken Ebert | Perfect Search | November 25, 2008 |
| Christopher Ahlberg | Recorded Future | April 5, 2011 |
| Olivier Lefassy | PolySpot | May 19, 2008 |
| Feivi Arnstein | SearchLion | August 2, 2011 |
| Kamran Khan | Search Technologies | March 15, 2011 |
| Richard Padley | Semantico | January 19, 2009 |
| Otis Gospodnetic | Sematext | September 15, 2010 |
| Mats Bjore | Silobreaker | June 12, 2008 |
| Jean Ferré | Sinequa | April 21, 2008 |
| David Patterson | Sophia Search | March 1, 2011 |
| Alex Zivkovic | Sprylogics | August 4, 2008 |
| Søren Pallesen | SurfRay | September 29, 2009 |
| Michael Weiner | Technology Innovations | January 6, 2009 |
| John Turnbull | Thunderstone | April 7, 2008 |
| 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 |
