Oren Etzioni was born on 1964 and is an American entrepreneur, Professor Emeritus of computer science, and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
10 Facts About Oren Etzioni
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Oren Etzioni was the first student to major in computer science at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1986.
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Oren Etzioni earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in January, 1991, supervised by Tom M Mitchell.
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Oren Etzioni joined the University of Washington faculty in 1991, immediately after receiving his PhD.
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Oren Etzioni's research has been focused on basic problems in the study of intelligence, machine reading, machine learning and web search.
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Oren Etzioni coined the term machine reading and helped to create the first commercial comparison shopping agent.
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Oren Etzioni founded Farecast, a travel metasearch and price prediction site, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for $115 million.
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Oren Etzioni is a venture partner at the Madrona Venture Group.
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In September 2013 Oren Etzioni was selected as the Founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and in January 2014 he took a leave of absence from the University of Washington to serve in that role.
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From inception, Etzioni partnered with late philanthropist Paul G Allen to create one of the most highly respected AI research institutes in the world.