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Powerset Welcomes Ronald Kaplan as Chief Technology and Science Officer
Natural Language Expert to Lead Commercialization of Three Decades of Groundbreaking Research
Powerset, March 13, 2007
Excerpts from the press release:
Powerset, the natural language search company, today formally announced it has added world-renowned natural language expert Ron Kaplan to its executive team. Kaplan, luminary in the linguistic community, will serve as the company’s Chief Technology and Science Officer, effective immediately.
Kaplan joins Powerset from Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (PARC), a leading R&D organization that collaborates with various businesses and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation. While at PARC, he created and led the Natural Language Theory and Technology research group. Under Kaplan’s leadership, Powerset will further develop and commercialize leading-edge consumer search solutions based on natural human language.
“We’re extremely pleased to have Ron on board with Powerset,” said Barney Pell, Founder and CEO of Powerset. “Ron’s computational linguistic expertise is widely respected, and his decision to join our team gives us a clear competitive advantage over today’s keyword-based search offerings. In addition, our ongoing exclusive right to the technology that Ron and his former team at PARC are developing comprises a core part of our aggressive business strategy.”
"Having worked closely with Ron Kaplan over the past 20 years, I can speak for PARC when I say that we're happy for him, however deeply he'll be missed," commented Mark Bernstein, PARC's President. "That said, we are pleased with the organization that he's joined--one of our close partners, Powerset. We expect PARC's continued work with Ron and the team at Powerset to create a number of significant new developments in the field of natural language research that impact the application of search."
As Chief Technology and Science Officer with Powerset, Kaplan’s multiple roles will include serving as company representative to the technology and science communities (particularly those related to computational linguistic technology); investigating new technologies in the marketplace for potential use by Powerset; directing internal scientific strategy and direction; and acting as liaison with the PARC natural language theory and technology group.
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