Catherine Havasi

Catherine Havasi
Born 1981
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Fields Computer science
Artificial intelligence
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.B., 2003)
(M.Eng, 2004)
Brandeis University (Ph.D, 2009)
Thesis Discovering Semantic Relations Using Singular Value Decomposition (2009)
Doctoral advisor James Pustejovsky
Known for Artificial intelligence
Influences Marvin Minsky
Website
luminoso.com
conceptnet5.media.mit.edu

Catherine Havasi is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab.[1] She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso.[2] Havasi co-created MIT’s Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and led the MIT team that created the natural language AI programme ConceptNet.[3][4] Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing.[2]

Early life and education

Catherine Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence and how the brain works from an early age after reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind.[5] Havasi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied under Minsky. She became involved in the MIT Media Lab while still an undergraduate.[5] She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University.[4]

Career

A Concept Cloud visualization of related themes in a data set

In 1999, Havasi became involved in Open Mind Common Sense as cofounder with Marvin Minsky and Push Singh, also serving as its director.[3] Havasi then led a team at MIT Media Lab to create ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS database.[5]

In 2010, Havasi was among the team that founded Luminoso, a text analytics software company to build on the work of ConceptNet.[6] The company has raised $8 million in financing.[7] Luminoso clients include Sony, REI, Intel, Autodesk and Scotts.[8][9][10][11]

Havasi was named among Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40", of business and civic leaders making a major impact in their respective fields in 2014.[4]

She is co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on AI and language.[12]

Partial bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Campbell, MacGregor (23 July 2013). "AI scores same as a 4-year-old in verbal IQ test". New Scientist. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 Titlow, John Paul (June 2015). "The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015: Catherine Havasi". Fast Company. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 Havasi, Catherine (9 August 2014). "Who’s Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Harris, David (16 October 2014). "40 Under 40: Catherine Havasi of Luminoso". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Cline, Keith (25 June 2014). "Dr. Catherine Havasi – From the MIT Media Lab to Co-Founder & CEO". Venture Fizz. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Alba, Davey (12 February 2015). "The Startup That Helps You Analyze Twitter Chatter in Real Time". Wired. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Miller, Ron (2 July 2014). "Luminoso Lands $6.5M In Series A To Keep Building Cloud Text Analytics Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Lohr, Steve (27 June 2014). "The U.S.-Germany Match Through a Social Media Lens". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Rusli, Evelyn (14 April 2014). "Firms Use Artificial Intelligence to Tap Shoppers' Views". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  10. ↑ Darrow, Barb (11 February 2015). "Luminoso brings its text analysis smarts to streaming data". GigaOm. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. ↑ Noyes, Katherine (11 February 2015). "Luminoso to enterprises: Here's what all that chatter really means". PC World. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  12. 1 2 "Catherine Havasi". scholar.google. Google Scholar. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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