We are actively seeking additional board members and developers.
Keith A. Pray
President & CTO
Keith is the primary author of Kapstone technology.
He has a Master of Science in Computer Science from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. His master's thesis was in the field of Data
Mining from complex temporal data.
Kapstone was in part inspired by the notion of providing a platform to
easily mine complex data.
Additionally Keith has over 7 years experience in Software
Development, Performance Analysis, and Research.
Benjamin Fischer
CEO
Ben holds a degree in Management Engineering and has managed the
development of various large-scale software projects and is focused on
developing the business.
Dharmesh Thakkar
Director of Development
Dharmesh is completing his master's thesis at WPI in the field of Data
Mining. He is an experienced SQL software developer and performance engineer.
Andrew Stone
Director of Information Technology
Education
M.S., Computer Science, WPI, Expected May 2006
B.S., Computer Science, WPI, 2001
Responsibilities
Systems support and management
Memberships & Affiliations
Association of Computing Machinery Professional Member
Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services, SIGUCCS
Certifications
Currently pursuing the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
certification
Areas of Interest
New technologies
Operating systems
Relational and object-oriented databases
Software engineering
Computer graphics
James W. Matthews
Board of Directors
Administrative/Research Scientist, Office of the Provost, WPI
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Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute liaison, represents WPI's interests
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Former Research Professor of Electrical Engineering at WPI
Carolina Ruiz
Board of Advisors
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park
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Secondary author of Kapstone technology
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Co-director of the Center for Research in Exploratory Data and
Information Analysis (CREDIA)
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Founder and coordinator of WPI's Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Research Group (KDDRG)
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Research Interests
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Deductive Databases
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Knowledge Discovery
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Data Mining
William R. Michalson
Board of Advisors
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at WPI
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Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Secondary author of Kapstone technology
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Research interests include:
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Global positioning systems performance prediction in distributed,
real-time, multiprocessor systems
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Performance optimization of highly parallel computer systems
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Computer Architecture