Dr. Deborah McGuinness is co-director and senior research scientist of the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (KSL) at Stanford University. She has been working in knowledge representation and reasoning environments for ontology creation and maintenance for over 20 years. She is best known for her work on description logics, semantic web languages and tools, and explanation technology.

She has built and deployed numerous ontology environments and ontology applications, including some that have been in continuous use for over a decade at AT&T and Lucent. She is the co-editor of the W3C Recommendation Ontology Markup Language (OWL) and co-author of the predecessor languages: the DARPA agent markup language (DAML+OIL), OIL, and CLASSIC. She leads the Stanford Explanation and Ontology Evolution Environment efforts. She has published over 100 papers and has authored five granted patents in knowledge based systems, ontology environments, configuration, and search technology. Many are available from: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/publications.html

Dr. McGuinness also consults helping clients plan, develop, deploy, and maintain semantic web and/or AI applications. Some areas of recent work include: ontology environments, search, e-commerce, e-health, configuration, and supply chain management. She is on the technology advisory board for Cerebra, Katalytik, Radar Networks, Sandpiper Software , and Buildfolio , and recently advised Applied Semantics and Guru Worldwide prior to their acquisitions. Dr. McGuinness was the program chair for the 2004 American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference and program chair for the 2002 International Knowledge Representation and Reasoning conference. She is on the steering board for some other academic organizations including the Semantic Web Science Foundation and the Oregon State Ecosystem Informatics Program. See http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/