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David Racz
Principal Scientist
Context, Content, Community
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Background

I have been working in the Nokia Research Center since 1999 primarily focused on the advanced development of web technology and distributed systems including browsers, servers, middleware and platforms, as well as experimental web systems for P2P, blogging, podcasting, discovery, and communications.

I am now leading the Context, Content, Community team in NRC Palo Alto where we are looking for breakthroughs in information storage, discovery, and retrieval by developing large-scale systems and services that consider the context and communities in which content is created and consumed.

Research Interests

I have a broad range of interests from cognitive science and evolutionary systems, to market technology and distributed systems. The central theme of my current work is the development of large scale distributed services that empower people, solve real human problems, leverage the network effect, and harness the collective intelligence.

Personal Information

I'm from New Jersey, lived in Boston for many years, then San Diego, and now live in Palo Alto with my wife and 4 children. I enjoy hacking, boardsports, music, politics, and thought.

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Education

M.B.A with focus on Communcations and Information Technology (2006) from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego
M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering (2000) from Boston University
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (1997) from Boston University

As an undergraduate I worked in the Intelligent Systems / Brain and Vision Research Lab. There I researched human and artificial vision systems, MRI and fMRI imaging and image processing technology, psychophysics, neural networks, and neuronal modeling.

As a graduate student I began to explore cognitive science, then software systems and networking technology. My thesis project work involved the design and implementation of distributed object systems for E-Commerce and Ad-Hoc networking. I spent two years as a Graduate Teaching Fellow and lectured and designed coursework/labwork for courses in Computational Vision, Software Systems Design, Biomedical Electronics, Medical Imaging, and Human Brain Mapping.