Ora Lassila

Ora Lassila

Hollis, New Hampshire, United States
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I am a senior software architect and researcher, with many years of experience in all…

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Experience

Education

  • Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan Graphic

    Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

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    Thesis: "Programming Semantic Web Applications: A Synthesis of Knowledge Representation and Semi-structured Data"

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    Thesis: "The Design and Implementation of a Frame System" - knowledge graphs in the 1990s!

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Academy for Science and Design Graphic

    Adjunct advisor/tutor

    Academy for Science and Design

    - 3 years

    Teaching middle and high schoolers about Web technologies and design.

  • Information Technology Advisor

    NH Aviation Museum

    - Present 4 years 11 months

    Science and Technology

Publications

Patents

  • System and method for Information and Computation Closures account management

    Issued US 8,401,934

    An approach is provided for enabling the accounting of closures to support query requests established by a device. A computation processing and accounting infrastructure determines one or more closures based, at least in part, on a query request. One of the one or more closures based, at least in part, on one or more predetermined policies is selected to generate a response to the query.

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  • Method and apparatus of dynamic rules insertion by agents

    Issued US 8,290,891

    An approach is provided for dynamic modification of inference rules and deduction engines in an information base. Authorized agents are allowed to insert, delete or modify inference rules and deduction engines dynamically by signing their input using an authorized signature. Additionally, the functionalities of dynamic modification of inference rules and deduction engines can be provided through a direct application programming interface (API).

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  • Apparatus, method and computer program product for processing resource description framework statements

    Issued US 8,190,643

    A method is provided that includes receiving a first triple including a subject, predicate and object, where the object is of a literal-type. For the first triple, then, the method includes identifying a subtype of the object; semantically marking the object with the identified subtype, including generating second and third triples; and storing the second and third triples in a triple store. In this regard, the second triple includes the subject and predicate of the first RDF triple as the…

    A method is provided that includes receiving a first triple including a subject, predicate and object, where the object is of a literal-type. For the first triple, then, the method includes identifying a subtype of the object; semantically marking the object with the identified subtype, including generating second and third triples; and storing the second and third triples in a triple store. In this regard, the second triple includes the subject and predicate of the first RDF triple as the subject and predicate thereof, and the third RDF triple includes the object of the first RDF triple or a representation of the object of the first RDF triple as the object thereof.

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Honors & Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    SCAI

    Juha Hynynen and Ora Lassila: "On the Use of Object-Oriented Paradigm in a Distributed Problem Solver", in: Hannu Jaakkola and Seppo Linnainmaa (eds), Proceedings of the Second Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI'89), Tampere (Finland), 657-669.

  • Grand Prize, Usenix Obfuscated C Code Contest

    Usenix

Languages

  • Finnish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Swedish

    Professional working proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

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