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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.


Mihai Nadin's interests and professional life combine engineering, mathematics, digital technology, semiotics, mind theory, and anticipatory systems. He holds advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a post-doctoral degree in Philosophy, Logic and the Theory of Science. Since 1985, his research has focused on anticipation/anticipatory systems. His book Mind – Anticipation and Chaos (1991) advanced a dynamic systems perspective of anticipatory processes. Research in dynamic systems at Stanford University and UC–Berkeley led Nadin to further probe anticipatory systems: “Anticipation – A Spooky Computation,” “Anticipating Extreme Events: the need for faster-than-real-time models,” and the book, Anticipation – The End Is Where We Start From (which set a foundation for the field in lay terms). He established the Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems (2002) as a research, “think tank”, and consulting entity (for technical innovation, business, policy development, game-based simulations, medicine). It became part of the University of Texas at Dallas (2004), when Dr. Nadin accepted its invitation to become Ashbel Smith University Professor. Recent publications on anticipation include: Quantifying Anticipatory Characteristics (2013); The Intractable and the Undecidable – Computation and Anticipatory Processes (2013); G-Complexity, Quantum Computation and Anticipatory Processes (2014), Can Predictive Computation Reach the Level of Anticipatory Computing? (2015). He was named Honorary Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (Germany), where he initiated Anticipation Across Disciplines. This study group (with support from the Thyssen Foundation and the German Science Foundation/DFG) organized two international conferences in 2014. The third, “Anticipation and Medicine,” will take place in September 2015).
References


Ontology is an implicit subject of his research.
1. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/neil-mcnaughton/6/498/243 


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


http://www.nadin.ws/
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


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


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

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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

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