Kurt Bollacker is an American computer scientist with a research background in the areas of

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s, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The

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. Bollacker spent time as a biomedical research engineer at the

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Medical Center where worked on electro-cardiography. He is co-creator of the

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research tool which was produced while he was a visiting researcher at the NEC Research Institute. During his tenure as Technical Director of the

Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...

, Bollacker lead the work to create The Wayback Machine. While Chief Scientist at Metaweb Technologies he was key contributor to the development of Freebase. After Metaweb, Bollacker worked at Applied Minds and as a consulting Data Scientist. Bollacker is a dedicated activist who is involved with multiple non-profit organizations. He serves on the Advisory Board of The

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Foundation For several years he has pursued research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the non-profit

Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is an American non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to start and promote a long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster ...

References

External links

U.T. Austin student page for Kurt Bollacker

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Bollacker's article in American Scientist "Avoiding a Digital Dark Age"
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