Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google.
Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation langua...
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Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google.
Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system.
Leaving what became Cycorp, Guha founded Q Technology, which created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish. In 1995, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to Alan Kay, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape Corporation where together with Tim Bray, he created a new version of MCF that used the XML language and which became the main technical...
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