Bands
Clamp your claws - microVM agent function execution with declarative capabilities
banded.ai ↗
encyclical.ai
Tools and skills for humans and agents to review things through the frame of the Magnifica Humanitas.
encyclical.ai ↗
deshitif.ai
Build the web you want. Make and share simple, static sites to replace bloated incumbents.
deshitif.ai ↗
nonperson.ai
Taking the "I" out of AI
nonperson.ai ↗
LiteCat
A simple list of what's happening IRL in your area.
lite.cat ↗
Crane
Verified code migration in small agentic steps.
githubnext.com ↗
Agent Functions
Reusable function structure for agentic work.
githubnext.com ↗
Continuous AI
The vision piece for reactive, passive AI that has become the norm.
githubnext.com ↗
Autoloop
An agentic loop for issue-driven code changes.
githubnext.com ↗
Agentic Workflows
Patterns for delegating software tasks to AI agents.
githubnext.com ↗
Agentic Workflows Can Use Local Inference
Think Global, Run Local
githubnext.com ↗
Copilot Next Edit Suggestions
Predictive code edits surfaced directly in the editor.
githubnext.com ↗
SpecLang
A language for describing and testing software behavior.
githubnext.com ↗
Commit to the Future
GitHub Universe activation - see you future commits on a giant flipflap board!
TextPAIR
Text alignment and similarity tools for humanities research.
artfl-project.uchicago.edu ↗
Poemify
A journal for found and mined poetry.
poemify.comGitHub
2018 — PresentStaff AI Researcher, GitHub Next (2023 — Present) · Staff & Senior Security Analyst, Platform Health (2018 — 2023)
Inventing and prototyping large-scale agentic code generation; championing Continuous AI. Built and shipped GitHub’s ML service and models for abuse classification. GitHub Responsible AI Champion.
Verizon Labs · IPTV
2015 — 2017Lead Data Scientist · Data Scientist
Led a team building a recommender system for TV and movies from the viewing data of millions of customers. Spark, Scala, Python.
EcoHealth Alliance
2014 — 2015Senior Data Scientist
Led a cross-functional team on a DTRA-funded emerging-disease detection dashboard. Built Annie, a Python NLP annotation framework.
Reverb · Wordnik
2008 — PresentBoard Member (2020 — Present) · Computational Linguist (2008 — 2014)
Built the entity / concept disambiguation framework at the core of the recommender system for news and web content. Scala, Python.
The University of Chicago
2004 — 2009Programmer Analyst
Machine learning and text mining. Built Philomine, an early application for machine learning on natural-language text for humanities research.
MA Linguistics
UC San Diego · 2012
AB Linguistics
University of Chicago · 2002
Honors · Phi Beta Kappa
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2008 ↗
Deconstructing Machine Learning: A Challenge for Digital Humanities
Cooney, Horton, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · Digital Humanities 2008
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2010
Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections
with Olsen, Roe · Digital Studies / Le Champ numérique, Vol 2 No 1
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2010
Plundering Philosophers: Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie
with Allen, Douard, Cooney, Morrissey, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · J. Assoc. for History and Computing, Vol 13 No 1
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2009
Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature
with Argamon, Goulain, Olsen · Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol 3 No 2
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2009
Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie
with Morrissey, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol 3 No 2
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2015
Automatic Media Summary Creation Systems and Methods
with Hu, Medapati · US Patent 20150300
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2011
Data Mining for Free Range Definitions
with Allen, McKean · US Patent WORD 1000-1