About us
Gnowsis.com is a European startup developing services for personal information management.
We provide solutions for an efficient administration of the daily information flow, including e- mails, documents and web-pages by using processes based on web 2.0.
Founded in 2009 in Vienna, we help you remember.
To obtain more information please contact us.
Awards and Highlights
- Mingo Award for most innovative small and middle enterprises in Vienna 2010
- 3rd Price at the ESTC 2009 Innovation Seed Camp sponsored by AWS
Team
Our management team brings in outstanding experience in the Semantic Web and Semantic Desktop areas.
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Leo Sauermann, Founder
Leo published the first version of a semantic desktop in his diploma thesis in 2003, and since then he did not stop evangelizing it. Together with Stefan Decker and Ansgar Bernardi he initiated the NEPOMUK Project at the DFKI in 2004. Being a respected scientist in the field of the semantic web, Leo Sauermann initiated the RDF conversion toolkit aperture.sourceforge.net, the semantic desktop gnowsis.opendfki.de, and many more. He finished his PhD in computer science and helped explaining what URIs are by editing the Cool URIs for the Cool URIs for the Semantic Web IG note for the W3C's Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) group. |
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Bernhard Schandl, Founder
Bernhard has been a researcher at the University of Vienna since 2004, and has been actively driving development towards the semantic desktop in the SemDAV and MobiSem project. He finished his PhD thesis in the field of semantic desktop infrastructures, for which he won the "Award of Excellence" 2009. He has published numerous papers about semantic technologies and is giving multimedia and semantic web technologies lectures at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences "Technikum Wien". He is also an active musician and enjoys playing drums and violin. |
The company in a video
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Watch a short presentation about Gnowsis we gave at ESTC 2009 |
Partner
Gnowsis.com is partner of a strong knowledge and research network.
| We participate as a project intended to find a spin-off company of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI and continue results of the NEPOMUK European Integrated Project. |   |
Supported by Inits.at
Gnowsis.com is supported and supervised by the incubator of INiTS Universtitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH, a company of the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology and the ZIT as a participant of the AplusB program.
