Founders

Dr. Tomasz Imielinski

Dr. Tomasz Imielinski is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ, USA. He received his PhD from Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw) in 1982.

Since that time, he has been pursuing innovations in computer science, database mining and mobile wireless computing, publishing nearly 100 papers and two books on these subjects. In 1991, jointly with Rakesh Agrawal, he co-invented association rule mining, which became one of the key data mining techniques which is included in every major commercial software database package. His joint paper with Agrawal (SIGMOD 1993) is the most cited paper in machine learning and databases in the last ten years. Imielinski's wireless work, supported by industry through Wireless Information Networks Lab (WINLAB) and governmental agencies (DARPA, through the GLOMO program and NSF) includes location dependent information services for mobile users and the higher-level communication protocol support for mobile and wireless environments.

Dr. Imielinski is a coeditor of the book "Mobile Computing" (Kluwer, 1996). He is currently an associate editor for ACM/Baltzer Nomad — Journal of Wireless and Mobile Communications and Computing and editor of journal of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. In 1999, he was Program co-Chair for ACM/IEEE Mobicom 99, the primary conference in the area. He was also a founding chair of Voice browser working group at W3C at MIT.

Dr. Donald Smith

Dr. Donald Smith is a co-founder of Connotate Technologies, the Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science Research, and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University.

He has a PhD in Computer Science, an MS in Fluid Mechanics, and an ScB in Aeronautical Engineering. Dr. Smith has published over two dozen articles in areas including optimizing compilers, automated AI-search techniques, intelligent tutoring systems, the design of parallel architectures, automated tools for VLSI design, optical computing, and the design of supersonic inlets. He has been a PI or Co-PI responsible for grants totaling over one million dollars from DARPA, NSF, NASA, ATT and the State of New Jersey.

Dr. Smith was a co-founder of Spruce Technologies; a company which in the early 1980's developed and marketed a syntax directed editor similiar to what is now included with Visual Basic.

Vincent Sgro

CTO and Co-Founder

Vincent Sgro - guides the development of Connotate's core technology, particularly the patented XML-by-example™ and PDCM™ technologies, which combines compiler and machine learning techniques, developed over years of research at Rutgers University. Prior to Connotate Technologies, Mr. Sgro served as Research Programmer for the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University. Mr. Sgro also served as the Internet evangelist at Rutgers University, developing key Intranet and Internet sites to wire the University students, professors, researchers and alumni. Mr. Sgro is a published researcher with a focus in compiler optimization technologies. He holds an MS and BS in Computer Science (Cum Laude) from Rutgers University.