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David Wood is a Principal at Software Memetics, LLC, a software engineering consultancy specializing in disruptive technologies, and entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIND Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park. He has founded two companies; Plugged In Software, a successful outsourced software development company in Australia and Tucana Technologies, Inc, a venture-backed product company sold to Northrup Grumman Corporation. A Semantic Web expert, David is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Coordination Group.Dave lead the development of the popular Open Source Software project the Kowari Metastore (http://kowari.org) and contributes to its fork, Mulgara (http://mulgara.org). Dave holds degrees in engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and the US Naval Postgraduate School and is a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Queensland. | 