DJ McCloskey

I work at IBM in the Watson Group, trying to make the world a better place. I've spent my whole career trying to teach computers to read and understand from one perspective or another. Always steeped in the human and cultural aspects, from working on character encodings and locale support in Lotus products, to creating IBM LanguageWare, a component technology for text analysis which powers many of IBM's offerings in this area today.

I'm passionate about architectural elegance, abstraction, optimization and solving the challenge of one day having a computer system which can understand and relate all unstructured information and structured information in whatever form it takes. My area of expertise is in text analysis.