Jonathan A. Rees

Last updated 21 November 2011

Jonathan Rees's home page

Email: (You have to prove that you are not a liver damaged heir to a 2.5 million dollar fortune, which you do by constructing my email address as follows: Take the three letters j, a, and r. Follow them by the letter w and the single decimal digit two. Then an at-sign, the word 'mumble', a period, and the word 'net'.)

URI: http://purl.org/NET/jar

Current positions

I am Principal Scientist at Creative Commons.
I'm also treasurer of the Cambridge Entomological Club.

Selected writings

Weblog
2010-03: Recommendations for independent scholarly publication of data sets. Creative Commons working paper.
2009-03-13: Life sciences on the Semantic Web: The Neurocommons and beyond by Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan A. Rees, Matthias Samwald and M. Scott Marshall. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2009.
Resource protection (June 2009)
Metadata on the web (Feb 2009)
Evolution of formal languages (May 2008)
More here

Activities as of April 2011

Experience and areas of interest

What I'm thinking about these days (Oct 2011): All kinds of communication: animal, human (especially rational discourse), computer/computer (protocols), and human/computer (programming languages, logic). What influences the stability of language, including formally specified ones? What is meaning and how does it come about? How does compositional semantics, and reference in particular, arise and how does it work?
From 2005 to 2010 I learned a lot about RDF, linked data, the so-called Semantic Web, and Web standards.
From May 2002 to November 2005 I was a Lead Software Engineer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working on "knowledge management," protein interaction networks, and associated analytical tools.
I have worked in the software industry, first at DEC and then at several high tech startups.
I have been interested in programming languages for a while, with a particular interest in the Lisp family of languages.
I've done some things vaguely related to science.
And a few other things

Software

Credentials

PhD EECS MIT, 1995 (Project MAC). Advisor: Gerald Jay Sussman. Committee: Hal Abelson and Tom Knight.
SM EECS MIT, 1989
BS Computer Science Yale, 1981

Maybe see also my personal home page.

Email:	(You have to prove that you are not a liver damaged heir to a 2.5 million dollar fortune, which you do by constructing my email address as follows: Take the three letters j, a, and r. Follow them by the letter w and the single decimal digit two. Then an at-sign, the word 'mumble', a period, and the word 'net'.)
URI:	http://purl.org/NET/jar