An Interview with Amit Sheth: The Information Systems Perspective on Semantic Web

Sheth is an educator, researcher and entrepreneur. He joined the UGA and started the LSDIS lab in 1994. For nine years before that, he served in R&D groups at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. In August 1999, Sheth founded Taalee, Inc., a Venture Capital funded enterprise software and internet infrastructure startup based on the technology developed at the LSDIS lab. He managed Taalee as its CEO until June 2001. Following Taalee's acquisition/merger, he serves as the CTO and co-founder of Semagix, Inc (formerly Voquette, Inc). His research has led to two companies, several commercial products and many deployed applications. He has published over 150 papers and articles, given over 130 invited talks and colloquia including 19 keynotes, (co)organized/chaired ten conferences/workshops, served on 90 program committees, etc.