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Monica L. Anderson

Accomplishments and Work History

Principal Researcher

• Launched an exploration of the idea of Artificial Intuition as an approach to Document understanding.
• Created artificial-intuition.com as an introuction to the idea.
• Designed and implemented versions 1-2 and 4-12 of experimental software to evaluate and explore these ideas. Co-designed version 3 which was implemented by Soren Tirfing.
• Designed and implemented all debugging, analysis and visualization tools for all versions.
• Incorporated Syntience Inc. in Feb. 2004.

• Researched automated syntax-based page quality evaluation methodologies
• Provided support for language-specific web search algorithm development in multiple non-english languages
• Developed internal-use class materials and lectured about Genetic Algorithms
• Java programming

Systems Design and Java Programming Consultant

• Created a system to manage entire British Shire horse registry since 1889 using Java, Swing, and MySQL
• Extracted information from OCR scans of the registry books using parsers created by writing a grammar for the ANTLR parser-generator.
• Invented a genetic algorithm to untangle directed acyclic graphs of interrelated horses.
• Invented a string comparison algorithm that is resilient to errors (OCR or data entry errors) in horse, owner and breeder names and addresses

• Systems design and Java programming

Kanisa Inc., 1998 - 2000:

Member of AI group, Toolsmith, and Knowledge Engineer

• Developed knowledge-base software and supporting tools.
• Created the prototype for a tech support self-help (tier-zero CRM) system for Apple Computer, Inc. Was technical lead in project for the full implementation at Apple's website.
• Participated in a corporate effort to extract meta-knowledge from previous implementations. Created a catalog of patterns, in the spirit of "Design Patterns" by Gamma et al., for knowledge map and customer dialog design. Taught classes to, and mentored, corporate knowledge engineers.
• Initiated an inquiry into the efficacy of a certain methodology, and as a result, recommended a change in corporate strategy that was adopted by corporate management.
• Cooperated with consultants from CYCorp on vertical-domain knowledge base layer for CYC. Took one-week class at CYCorp.
• Initiated and created modular framework for testing natural language processing modules.
• Adapted a parts-of-speech (POS) tagger to this workbench, added CYC access, and wrote other modules such as a super-fast term scanner (implementing an algorithm I developed for the purpose).
• Suggested, then developed with two others an implementation language that became a corporate standard, replacing several other ad-hoc efforts. Introduced ANTLR parser generator to the company, wrote a grammar for the language, and created parsers in Java and C++.
• Initiated, designed, implemented, and documented a graphical browser and editor for taxonomical datasets, the Kanisa Knowledge Factorizer. Added JDBC/ODBC connectivity to access Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases and XML export and import of knowledge maps. Added graphical reporting capabilities including a small report specification language interpreter. Although originally an internal tool, the Factorizer became so popular with customers that it was made part of the product offering.

Systems Designer and Java Programmer

• Designed and developed software for a distributed virtual world platform, written in Java. Maintained, redesigned, and re-implemented an Object Persistence Repository developed in-house. Created tools for managing these.
• Initiated, designed, implemented, and documented a Java Object Inspector using the object serialization created for the Repository.
• Initiated, designed, implemented, and documented an event debugging tool capable of single-stepping the virtual world, integrated with the Object Inspector.
• Designed and implemented a peer-to-peer Java object publishing and downloading scheme that uses MD5 CryptoHashes as globally unique keys and caches downloaded objects in the Persistence Repository.

Programmer

Genetic Algorithms Research

• Successfully attacked an intractable set-theoretical problem using a genetic algorithm written in Macintosh Common Lisp. Previously, it had taken 3 days on a Cray supercomputer to solve the problem by brute force. My GA code produced the same answers in 20 minutes on a Macintosh Quadra.

Software Design Consultant

• Independently designed and implemented three generations of order entry front-end systems and rule-based product configuration verifier expert systems, using C and Common Lisp. Created a version using Macintosh Common Lisp/CLOS for field use, pioneering Field Force Automation.
• Analyzed product line and manufacturing processes and built computer models to do verification of product configurations. Invented concept of "Order Expansion" – Adding required parts to order based on major parts and pseudoproducts called "Flavors" acting as high-level specifications. Expansion became VERY popular.
• Invented a novel legacy system interface module to Cisco's MRP/ERP system.

Manager, Systems Support

• Maintained all networks, SUN servers and clients, and Macintosh systems on site.
• Managed five people who maintained Lisp machines, email, backups, and other systems.
• Planned, budgeted, purchased, and implemented 5 SUN servers and other infrastructure.

Teaching Assistant

• Taught Artificial Intelligence Lab courses (students analyzed SOPHIE and other AI systems)
• Taught algorithms and data structures, programming project lab, and other courses.
• Worked on various research and maintenance projects at the CS department, some using Interlisp.
• Discussed TMS, KR, NLP, LISP, and other AI topics with CS department researchers.
• Started and participated in student projects – porting LISP interpreters, building computers using microcomputer chips, writing CRT emulation software (which became a commercial product), and maintaining vintage computers.

Education

• Master of Science, Computer Science. Linköping University, Sweden.

Other

• Born in Sweden; U.S. citizen since 1995.
• Multilingual: English, Swedish, Finnish, German, and reads some French.