Neil McNaughton

After a couple of years with the British Antarctic survey Neil started out as a geophysicist with Total (in 1974). This led to various other jobs with different oil and consulting companies (1). Neil developed an interest in computing early on and after a few job moves ended up writing a monthly newsletter, Oil IT Journal http://www.oilit.com now in its 20th year. Oil IT Journal has had a long time interest and involvement in semantics and has acted as a conduit for information and evaluation of semantic technology for many years. In 2004 Neil was invited to a meeting of the W3C's semantic web interest group (2). In 2008 he was invited to attend a seminal meeting of the industry at Chevron's Houston offices (3). Other semantic/ontological content includes a review of a novel approach to geological earth modeling (4) and review of the state of the industry in 20125. Coverage of this evolving technology continues with regular reports from conferences including the US Fiatech organization and Norway's Semantic Days event. Neil has been a longtime observer of the Ontolog newsgroup.

References

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/neil-mcnaughton/6/498/243

2. A million miles of spaghetti eaten every day! (March 2004) http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/0403_3.htm

3. W3C Workshop on Semantic Web in Oil and Gas - Chevron, Houston, 2008 http://www.oilit.com/1_tw/2008_contents/0816_SemanticWeb_in_Oil&Gas_Houston_contents.pdf

4. Reflections on Shared Earth Modeling and the semantic web (April 2013) http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1304_3.htm

5. From Description Logics, through OWL/RDF to machine reasoning? (February 2012) http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1202_3.htm