The Google Knowledge Graph is one of the most recognizable sources of contextually-linked facts on people, books, organizations, events, and more. Access to all of this information — including how each knowledge graph entity is linked — could be a boon to many services and applications. On this front Google has developed the Knowledge Graph […]
The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a student to meet people from all walks of life and learn about different industries. We interviewed to be warehouse […]
Diffbot’s Approach to Knowledge Graph
Google introduced to the general public the term Knowledge Graph (“Things not Strings”) when they added the information boxes that you see to the right-hand side of many searches. However, the benefits of storing information indexed around the entity and its properties and relationships are well-known to computer scientists and have been one of the […]
The Diffbot Master Plan (Part One)
Our mission at Diffbot is to build the world’s first comprehensive map of human knowledge, which we call the Diffbot Knowledge Graph. We believe that the only approach that can scale and make use of all of human knowledge is an autonomous system that can read and understand all of the documents on the public […]
Analyzing the EU – Data, AI, and Development Skills Report 2019
Given how popular our 2019 Machine Learning report turned out to be with our community, we wanted to revisit the question both with a more specific geography and a broader set of questions. For this report, we focused on the EU. With Brexit still looming large, we took a look at the EU (Britain […]
Welcome Tomer Balan – Senior Software Engineer
Hi there! My name is Tomer, and I’m a new Senior Software Engineer at Diffbot! I am from Tel Aviv, Israel, a city with beautiful beaches, restaurants, bars, and a lot of technology. As far back as I can remember, I have always been passionate about identifying and solving business problems using technology. For that […]
Welcome Priya Venkateshan – Senior Software Engineer
Hi, my name is Priya, and I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Diffbot. I grew up in Bangalore, India, and since everyone around me was getting into programming, I did too; though I secretly wanted to be in medicine or journalism. However, thanks to the professors and peers at NITK Surathkal, I discovered machine learning, got […]
Welcome Rick Deininger – Technical Support Engineer
Hello! My name is Rick Deininger and I am the newest member of the technical support team at Diffbot. I began working with computers when I was very little. However, as I grew up, I had less access to computers so I was not able to pursue those interests as much. After graduating high school, […]
Welcome Joone Hur – Software Engineer
Hello everyone! My name is Joone, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot where I own the renderability and performance of the rendering farm here. For many years, I worked on web engines such as Gecko, WebKit and Chromium at Samsung and Intel Open Source Technology Center. Currently, I am pursuing a new adventure with […]
Welcome Dimitris Kontokostas – Software Engineer
Hello there! I am Dimitris, and I am a new Software Engineer at Diffbot! As the name implies, I am Greek. In particular, I am from the northern part of the mainland (far away from the beautiful beaches). I hold a degree in Electronics & Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, a MSc in Web Science from Aristotle University […]