PaulHoule

Software developer at a major research university and community photographer. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY. Astronaut of science fiction and fantasy. I've given talks on nuclear energy, chatbots, the semantic web and other topics and my publications have been cited in Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Emergency Medicine and Nintendo Power.

Some systems I've worked on: a voice chat service for the Brazilian market, the market leading open access e-Print server, e-business systems for car dealerships, wineries and a pallet recycling company, decision support systems for sales territory assignment, a collaborative visual editor for knowledge graphs, a social network for a secret society, a rich metadata database for the global performing arts with hundreds of Postgres tables that we should have built in RDF, a similarity metric for generic concepts (people, places, creative works, ...), a search engine for patents powered by a neural network, conversion of Freebase to an RDF graph with perfect referential integrity, an automatically curated collection of more than 1 million images of thousands of topics, a study of statistics of the sound of crumpling paper, and two efforts to commercialize foundation models before LLMs.

I served on a committee researching the application of OWL, RDF and other semantic web concepts to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard which culminated in the publication of ISO/TR 22126-2:2025 "OWL representation of the ISO 20022 metamodel and e-repository"

My submissions to Hacker News are chosen by myself working together with YOShInOn, a smart RSS reader that couples a workflow engine with a BERT-based classification, clustering and recommendation engine.

Software-related side projects are going slow while I focus my effort on building up a large stock of photographs to post to my socials. These show up first here:

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/

North American Weaboo.

paul.houle@ontology2.com (607) 821 1243