Toby Segaran
Data Magnate, Metaweb

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Toby Segaran is the author of the O’Reilly title, “Programming Collective Intelligence”, one of Amazon’s top-selling AI book, and a co-founder of freerisk.org. His upcoming titles “Programming the Semantic Web” and “Beautiful Data” will be on shelves in July. He frequently speaks on the subjects of machine learning, collective intelligence and freedom of data at conferences worldwide.

He currently holds the title of Data Magnate at Metaweb Technologies, where he works on large-scale data reconciliation problems. Prior to Metaweb he founded Incellico, a biotechnology software company, which was acquired in 2003.

Toby holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from MIT and is deemed a “Person of Exceptional Ability” by the USCIS. He loves applying data-analysis algorithms to everything ranging from pharmaceutical trials to online dating to financial risk models.