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Alexandre Passant | |
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| Born | Alexandre Passant 15 June 1980 |
| Died | 2 January 2021 (aged 40) |
Alexandre Passant (15 June 1980 – 2 January 2021) was a pioneer in semantic web research and application, particularly in the areas of music similarity ranking and user recommendation engine design. With John Breslin and Stefan Decker, Passant co-authored the seminal book, The Social Semantic Web,[3] which synthesized and expanded upon many themes of his research and career.
Education
[edit]Passant obtained his Engineering Degree, Master of Engineering and Master of Science, all in Computer Science, from Université Paris Dauphine. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2009; his dissertation is titled Technologies du Web Sémantique pour l'Entreprise 2.0.[4]
Research
[edit]Passant led a research team at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway[5][6][7] where he managed projects with Cisco, Google,[8][9] and others.[10] Passant and the DERI team developed the Common Tag for the semantic web with Yahoo,[11] AdaptiveBlue, Faviki, Freebase, Zemanta, and Zigtag in 2009.[12] This technology allowed for user tagging and classification of web content. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mashup Challenge award for developing and building an innovative web-based music recommendation system called dbrec, which relied on DBpedia to explain recommendations to users.[13]
Entrepreneurial work
[edit]Passant was a prolific entrepreneur. Some examples of his work include:
- In 2011,[6] with Julie Letierce, Peter O'Shea, and Niall Ryan, founded Music & Data Geeks.[14]
- With Julie Letierce, started the music discovery company Seevl.,[15][16][17] which was developed out of DERI.[18][19] and later incubated at DogPatch labs.[20]
- With Stan Massueras and Charles Alix, co-founded the technology start-up, YapMe.[21][22][23]
- Launched The Long Tail in 2014.[24][25][26]
- With Stan Massueras and Charles Alix, founded Pulp in 2016.[27]
References
[edit]- ↑ "matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès". deces.matchid.io.
- ↑ "Death Notice of Alexandre PASSANT (Booterstown, Dublin) | rip.ie". rip.ie.
- ↑ "NUIG experts solve on-line problems in new book". Galway City Tribune. 1 January 2010.
- ↑ Passant, Alexandre (9 June 2009). "Technologies du Web Sémantique pour l'Entreprise 2.0". Paris 4.
- ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
- 1 2 "Alexandre Passant | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com.
- ↑ "Alexandre Passant Research Gate".
- ↑ "Google funds semantic web researcher - Innovation | siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service". Silicon Republic. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "Google to fund NUIG research into the next generation of mobile social networking". Galway City Tribune. 24 December 2010.
- ↑ "Alexandre Passant". NEXT Conference.
- ↑ "Yahoo! and DERI develop Common Tag for semantic web - Innovation | siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service". Silicon Republic. 26 June 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "Galway research link to development of new way to enhance web content". THE CONNACHT SENTINEL. 7 July 2009.
- ↑ "Galway researcher wins top award for web-basd music information system". Galway City Tribune. 10 September 2010.
- ↑ Degeler, Andrii (16 July 2014). "Ireland Becomes a Major Destination for European Founders". TNW | Insider.
- ↑ "Hey @Seevl, Be My Twitter DJ". Fast Company. 15 September 2014.
- ↑ Kennedy, John (5 January 2014). "Tech start-up of the week: Music & Data Geeks (Seevl) - Start-ups - siliconrepublic.com - Ireland's Technology News Service". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ "DERI spin-out will help music lovers down the path to new discoveries". THE CONNACHT TRIBUNE. 10 June 2011.
- ↑ "NUIG company spins out new knowledge experience for music lovers of all genres". Galway City Tribune. 17 June 2011.
- ↑ Connolly, Philip (17 June 2012). "Technology service is music to fans'ears". The Sunday Business Post.
- ↑ "Seevl". The Sunday Evening Post. 30 December 2012.
- ↑ "YapMe - 2026 Company Profile & Team - Tracxn". tracxn.com. 12 March 2026.
- ↑ Keogh, Olive. "New innovators: YapMe". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ Griffin, Joe. "Sound and vision: in tune on social media". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ Russell, Jon (6 July 2014). "Discover Your Favorite Artists' Least-Known Music". TNW - Media. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ Passant, Alexandre. "The Long Tail, with Spotify and Polymer". Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ DUPIN, Eric (7 July 2014). "Connaissez-vous les titres les plus obscurs de vos artistes préférés ? Voici comment les découvrir facilement". Presse-citron (in French). Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ↑ Hughes, Matthew (13 September 2016). "Pulp lets you create your own short music videos straight from your iPhone". TNW | Apps.