Pattern Insight was started in 2006 as an effort to commercialize the
research of its founders at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The initial technology around large scale systems data mining that the
founders developed at the University became the basis of Pattern Insight. I
will describe the challenges and lessons in turning pure academic research
into an established software company with customers some the biggest
technology companies in the world, 100% annual growth and millions of
dollars in revenue. Furthermore, I will present the current state of the
search and analysis technology for IT data that Pattern Insight has
developed along with some open problems in both the technology and the
market it operates.
Turning Academic Research to a Successful High Tech Company

28.06.2011
Ημερομηνία : 28.06.2011
Ώρα : 15:00
Μέρος : Aίθουσα Συναντήσεων "Αλκιβιάδης Χ. Παγιατάκης", ΙΤΕ, Ηράκλειο, Κρήτη
Φιλοξενείται από : Μανόλης Κατεβαίνης
Spiros is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pattern Insight, a
software company based in Mountain View CA that builds search and data
analysis solutions that are used by some of the biggest technology companies
in the world. From 2006 until 2010 he was leading the R&D at Pattern Insight
as its VP of Engineering. Before co-founding Pattern Insight, Spiros
conducted research in systems mining and reliability as a member of the
Opera research group at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that
created the core technology behind Pattern Insight. He has published several
research papers on systems and software engineering. Spiros previously
worked at Google. He has a background on information mining from systems
data, search engines, and large scale software systems development. Spiros
holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois and is
currently on leave from the PhD program. He is also on the Board of
Directors of Openfund, an early stage fund based in Athens Greece and an
advisor to several start up companies.