Bill MacCartney

Bill MacCartney

Palo Alto, California, United States
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About

I'm taking a break, learning, and exploring. Until the end of 2022, I served as VP of…

Experience

  • SignalFire Graphic

    SignalFire

    San Francisco, California, United States

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    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    San Francisco

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Education

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    Stanford University

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    Activities and Societies: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), Stanford Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group

    Ph.D. in Computer Science. Focus in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). Published 12+ NLP research papers. Cited 4,600+ times. Won Best Paper Award at COLING-08. Co-authored the Stanford typed dependency parser, which has been cited 2,900+ times.

  • Awarded Fulbright scholarship for graduate work in philosophy of language. Mastered German.

  • B. A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude. Focus in philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics. GPA: 4.0 in major, 3.9 overall. GRE: 800/800/800. LSAT: 180.

Patents

  • Social search engine

    Issued US 9,098,808

    Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the…

    Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an answer to a question from an answerer; identifying an entity in the answer, in which the entity refers to a product, a service, a company, or a merchant; obtaining permission from the answerer to provide an interactive link for the entity in the answer to a resource from which the entity can be obtained; receiving a user submitted query and determining that the query is related to the entity; and responsive to determining, providing the answer, including the link to the resource, as part of search results that are responsive to the query.

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Cantonese

    Elementary proficiency

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