Kurt Bollacker

Kurt Bollacker is an American computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling.

Bollacker spent time as a biomedical research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center where worked on electro-cardiography.

During his tenure as Technical Director of the Internet Archive, Bollacker lead the work to create The Wayback Machine.

While Chief Scientist at Metaweb Technologies he was key contributor to the development of Freebase.

He serves on the Advisory Board of The Common Crawl Foundation [9] For several years he has pursued research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the non-profit Long Now Foundation.