Consulting PartnershipsKitenga® has worked with consultants from academia and industry in engagements for commercial and government R&D projects. Academic consultants from leading universities have contributed analysis and experimental design for next-generation user interfaces and information design, as well as executed on large-scale user evaluations of developing technologies. These partnerships remain a critical part of the Kitenga R&D life cycle. AdvisersKitenga advisers have included leading technologists and business advisers in the Bay Area technology community, as well as mentors from the government sector. Through these relationships, Kitenga has extended its reach and the impact of its technologies and offerings. Current advisers include Dr. Ted Dunning, CTO of DeepDyve, who also serves as a technology consultant on government projects. Dr. Dunning has held leadership roles at HNC/Fairisaac spin-out, Aptex, ID Analytics, and was Chief Scientist at Musicmatch (now Yahoo! Music). Dr. Dunning also advises Lucid Imagination, an open source search integration startup. Management  Anil Uberoi is Chief Executive Officer at Kitenga. A Silicon Valley veteran, Anil has held leadership positions at Lucid Imagination (Chief Marketing Officer), Levanta (Chief Marketing Officer), Backflip Software (President), Amdocs (VP Global Marketing), and a host of other major corporations, including Sun, Netopia, and National Semiconductor. During his tenures, he has built early stage firms into thriving enterprises, driven billion dollar product lines, and worked with proprietary and open source startups. Most recently, at Lucid Imagination, Anil lead the launch of the company including go-to-market strategy, corporate communications, partnerships and OEM relationships.
 Mark Davis is Founder and Principal Technologist at Kitenga. Mark has 17 years experience in computational linguistics, information retrieval, business development in text analytics, information access and related areas. Mark founded Inventix Software in 1998, delivering some of the earliest information management and visualization technologies for web use, and featured in Mathematical Excursions (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), Strategic Internet Marketing by Dann and Dann (Wiley, 2001), and American Scientist (1999). He also has served as Principal Engineer at InXight Software (acquired by Business Objects in '07), helping spin InXight out of Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and engineering much of the core technology to product-level reliability. Prior to that, Mark was a Program Manager at Microsoft in the Knowledge Management product group and designed core technology for Sharepoint Server and SQL Server. Mark was also a DoD/Intelligence Community researcher at Computing Research Lab in New Mexico for 7 years and was author or co-author on over 20 papers, book chapters and journal articles in cross-language text retrieval, evolutionary optimization, machine learning, user interfaces for information access, and cognitive science. Mark served as a US Peace Corps volunteer between 1989 and 1992, teaching physics, math and economics in the Republic of Fiji. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from New Mexico State University, with specializations in information theory and pattern recognition, and spent time at Santa Fe Institute studying complex systems theory. Mark is an avid mountain biker and enjoys writing, computer-based music composition, visual arts and spending time with his family when a spare moment is available. His first novel, Teleology, will be published in Fall of 2010. Mark lives in Northern California.
Selected Publications
M. Davis and W.C. Ogden. "QUILT: Implementing Cross-language Text Retrieval Systems for Large-Scale Text Collections" in Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR, August 1997. Philadelphia, PA M. Davis. "On the Effective Use of Large Parallel Corpora In Cross-Language Text Retrieval" Cross-Language Information Retrieval. G. Grefenstette, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 11-23. 1998. M. Davis and T. Dunning. "Query Translation using Evolutionary Programming for Multilingual Information Retrieval," in McDonnell, J., Reynolds, R, and Fogel, D. (Ed.). Evolutionary Programming IV. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Pp. 175-185. 1995. M. Davis and Ogden, W. C., "Toward Universal Text Retrieval: Tipster Text Retrieval Research at New Mexico State University" Information Retrieval. 3:339-356, 2000. W.C. Ogden and Davis, M. "Improving Cross-Language Text Retrieval with Human Interactions" in Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33). January 4-7, 2000. Maui, Hawaii. W.C. Ogden, Cowie, J., Davis, M., Ludovik, Y., Molina-Salgado, H., Shin, H. "Getting Information from Documents You Cannot Read: An Interactive Cross-Language Text Retrieval and Summarization System" in Joint ACM Digital Library/SIGIR Workshop on Mulitlingual Information Discovery and Access (MIDAS). August 14, 1999. Berkeley, CA. W.C. Ogden, Cowie, J., Davis, M., Ludovik, Y., Nirenburg, S., Molina-Salgado, H., and Sarples N. "Keizai: An Interactive Cross-Language Text Retrieval System" in Machine Translation Summit VII, Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval. September 17, 1999. Singapore. M. Davis. "URSA: The UNICODE Retrieval System Architecture for Multilingual and Translingual Information Retrieval" UNICODE Conference proceedings. March 1999. Cambridge, MA. M. Davis and F. Ren. "Automatic Japanese-Chinese Parallel Text Alignment" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Information Processing (ICCIP 98). November 1998. Beijing. W.C. Ogden, M. Davis and S. Rice. "Document Thumbnail Visualization for Rapid Relevance Judgments: When do They Pay Off?" in NIST Special Publication: Proceedings of the Seventh Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference. November 1998. Gaithersburg, MD. M. Davis and P. Foltz. "Learning Via Compact Data Representation" in Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. August, 1998. Madison, Wisconsin. M. Davis and W.C. Ogden. "Free Resources and Advanced Alignment for Cross-Language Text Retrieval" in NIST Special Publication: The Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-6), D.K. Harman, Ed., Computer Systems Laboratory. November 1997. Gaithersburg, MD. M. Davis. "Graphical Models and Networks for Monolingual, Multilingual and Translingual Text Retrieval and Visualization" Presented to the SIGIR97 Workshop on Crosslingual Information Retrieval. August 1997. Philadelphia, PA. J. Cowie, M. Davis and R. Zajac. "Les Text Retrieval Evaluation Conferences, TREC-Un point de vue multilingue" in Actes des 1-ières Journées Techniques et Scientifiques. FRANCIL. Avignon. 1-4. 1997 M. Davis. "Complexity Formalisms, Order and Disorder in the Structure of Art" in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, March 1997. Indiannapolis, Indiana. M. Davis and W.C. Ogden. "Implementing Cross-language Text Retrieval Systems for Large-Scale Collections and the World Wide Web" in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Cross-language Text Retrieval. March, 1997. Stanford University. M. Davis. "New Experiments in Cross-linguistic Text Retrieval at Computing Reseach Lab, NMSU" in NIST Special Publication: The Fifth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5), D.K. Harman, Ed., Computer Systems Laboratory, NIST. 1996 M. Davis and T. Dunning, "Query Translation using Evolutionary Programming for Multilingual Information Retrieval II" In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, March 1996. T. Dunning and Mark W. Davis. "Evolutionary algorithms for natural language processing" in John R. Koza (ed.), Genetic Programming 1996 Conference, Stanford University July 28-31, 1996, pages 16-23, Stanford University, CA, USA. M. Davis and T. Dunning. "A TREC Evaluation of Query-Translation Methods for Multi-Lingual Text Retrieval" in NIST Special Publication: The Fourth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-4), D.K. Harman, Ed., Computer Systems Laboratory, NIST. 1995. M.Davis and T. Dunning. "Query Translation using Evolutionary Programming for Multilingual Information Retrieval" in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, March 1995. M. Davis, T. Dunning and B. Ogden. "Text Alignment in the Real World: Improving Alignments of Noisy Translations Using Common Lexical Features, String Matching and N-gram Comparisons", in Proceedings of the The Seventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Dublin, March 1995. M. Davis. "The Natural Formation of Gaussian Mutation Strategies in Evolutionary Programming" in Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, Evolutionary Programming Society. San Diego, CA. 1994. T. Dunning and M. Davis. "A Single Language Evaluation of a Multi-Lingual Text Retrieval System" in NIST Special Publication 500-207: The First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1). D.K. Harman, Ed., Computer Systems Laboratory, NIST. 1993. T. Dunning and M. Davis. "Multi-lingual Information Retrieval" Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-93-252, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, 1993. Patents 7,107,266 Method and apparatus for auditing training supersets 7,089,238 Method and apparatus for incremental computation of the accuracy of a categorization-by-example system
|
