Timboy at Powerset
June 10, 2007
Congratulations to Powerset for snagging Timboy! We came to Silicon Valley more than 7 years ago to do startups, and although the big search engines have been very good to Tim I’m happy that he’s finally found the right opportunity to lure him to a smaller place.
June 10, 2007 at 5:30 pm
[...] Tim Converse: Working at Powerset – “If all this sounds computationally expensive to try to apply to the entire web, well … it is. There’s a big double bet here, on a couple of decades-long trends: that NLP technology keeps getting ever faster and more mature, and that Moore’s Law continues making computation ever cheaper, and that the historic moment when NLP meets Moore’s Law in the middle at web-scale search is …. 2007. Or maybe 2008.” – Via TroutGirl. [...]