Dr. Benjamin Grosof
Benjamin Grosof & Associates - President
Coherent Knowledge Systems - Co-Founder
RuleML - Co-Founder

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Benjamin is an industry leader in knowledge representation, reasoning, and acquisition. He has pioneered semantic technology and industry standards for rules, the combination of rules with ontologies, the applications of rules in e-commerce and policies, the acquisition of rules and ontologies from natural language, courteous defeasibility, and restraint bounded rationality.  He co-founded RuleML and has had driving roles in W3C RIF and OWL-RL.  He has experience in a wide variety of application areas as well as in machine learning and probabilistic reasoning. 

Previously, he led a large research program in rule-based AI at Vulcan Inc. for Paul G. Allen (2007-2013), was an IT professor at MIT Sloan (2000-2007), and was a senior software scientist at IBM Research (1988-2000). His background includes 4 major industry software releases, a Stanford PhD in computer science, a Harvard BA, and over 50 refereed publications.

Janine Bloomfield
Coherent Knowledge Systems - Director of Operations & Marketing, and Co-Founder

We present a novel application of advanced logic-based business rules (Rulelog) and natural language processing (Textual Logic):  to automatically generate detailed explanations for business decision making and education.  Business users need to deeply understand the critical knowledge that underlies organizational decisions.  Students at all levels want to understand the "why" not just the "what", and benefit from automated support for developing higher cognitive and critical thinking skills.  Our approach is domain-neutral, and its generated explanations are interactively navigable. We give two case studies:

·         Regulations & policies in financial compliance.  A key challenge in compliance is the ever-growing amount and complexity of regulations & policies.  Our approach aids compliance professionals to interpret the results of automated decision support systems and to contribute more rapidly and effectively to evolving the implemented business rules that underlie those systems.

·         Review and test prep in college-level science.   A key challenge in education is the high cost of personalizing the learning experience.  Our approach reduces that cost, deepens the learning experience, and empowers the student.