Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni is an American entrepreneur, professor of Computer Science, and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1991, where he became the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In May 2005, he founded and became the director of the University's Turing Center. The Center investigates problems in data mining, natural language processing, the Semantic Web and other web search topics. He coined the term machine reading and created the first commercial comparison shopping agent.