Ora Lassila

Ora Lassila, Ph.D

I am a technology strategist at the Nokia Services and a member of Nokia's CEO Technology Council. Prior to joining Nokia Services I worked on Semantic Web and its applications to mobile and ubiquitous computing. I have been involved in various Semantic Web activities since 1996, and worked on various complex applications involving KR for a good 10 years prior to that. For more biographical notes, see here.

I am the author of NRC's Semantic Web toolkit (dubbed "Wilbur"), written in Common Lisp. The toolkit provides a main-memory triple store (with RDFS reasoning), a path query language ("WilburQL"), and means of loading and parsing RDF/XML. My current Wilbur-related work focuses on OINK, a browser for RDF data.

A list of my publications is available. Occasionally, I also write something in my blog.

I participate in various committees, boards and working groups:

I am an elected member of the W3C's Advisory Board (and Nokia's former representative to W3C's Advisory Committee).
I was a member of the technical advisory boards of ILOG, IntelliSeek (subsequently BuzzMetrics, acquired by Nielsen), Cerebra (formerly Network Inference, acquired by WebMethods) and Eizel (now part of Nokia).
I was a member of the Steering Committee of the Semantic Web Science Association