François Schiettecatte

Bio:I was formerly co-founder and Chief Scientist at Feedster Inc.
While at Feedster Inc, I built the search engine, scaling it up to handle very large number of documents and searches. The search engine featured load-balancing, distributed searching, redundancy, automatic discovery, self-repair and self-administration. It was built around unicode from the outset, and included support for many european and asian languages.
I also worked on the crawler, writing the first one which was rightly dumped as soon as something better came along and worked on evolving the data schema from its monolithic roots to something scalable.
I also handled a large part of the MySQL adminstration.
Prior to co-founding Feedster, I ran, for ten years, FS Consulting, Inc. a consulting firm focused on specialized information retrieval applications. My clients ran the gamut with companies such as Xerox, Orion Scientific, Elsevier Science and Endeavor Information Systems.
While consulting, I developed a search engine and a web-based electronic journal system called ScienceServer. This product was later sold to Elsevier Science.
Prior to creating FS Consulting, Inc, I worked for three years on the Human Genome Project at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
I have a Bachelors of Science in Systems and Management from the City University of London, and later for a Fellowship at the Center for Interactive Systems Research at the City University of London.