Elias Torres

Elias Torres is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM’s CIO office (WebAhead). His current research focus areas include the Semantic Web and Social Software. He’s very active in the Open Source community at the Apache Software Foundation and works as a member in two W3C working groups: SPARQL and RDF-in-XHTML Task Force. He earlier developed, deployed and evangelized two key collaborative services inside IBM called Blog Central and Wiki Central. These services provide online journals for all IBM employees as well as collaborative spaces, more commonly known as Wikis. IBM views these as core to their current efforts to transform IBM. These two services have rapidly evolved into thriving, global productivity-enhancing communities with exponential growth in their first year of deployment.

Elias has influenced IBM products and development efforts and is partly responsible for the new blog content on developerWorks and the inclusion of Blog capabilities in IBM Lotus Connections. With Semantic Web technologies, he continues this role as technology evangelist and is working with IBM organizations including the Life Sciences and IBM research organizations.

Elias earned a BA in Business Administration at University of South Florida and an MS in Computer Science from Harvard University.

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