George Wiley Burch is a distinguished mathematician, entrepreneur, and Zen master with a diverse career spanning military service, academia, technology entrepreneurship, and spiritual leadership. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Operatons Research from Johns Hopkins University and has received numerous accolades for his groundbreaking work in various fields.

Education and Military Service (1959-1963)

* Graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, Presidential appointee, in the first graduating class (1959)

* Officer, United States Air Force (1959-1963) – Trans-Pacific Navigator

Operations Evaluation Group (1963-1969)

* Worked as a mathematician at Project MAC, designing and coding queuing processes for time-sharing computers using Lisp.

* Collaborated with renowned professors and researchers, including Prof. McCarthy and Dr. Weizenbaum.

* Awarded the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) best paper at the 16th symposium.

* Graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Operations Research Department, under Prof. Geoffrey Watson, Statistics.

* Mathematician for Commander in Chief Pacific Admiral McCain, created a model of the Vietnam transportation system.

* Awarded a Presidential citation for his work disrupting the NVA supply lines before Tet 1968.

Startup Entrepreneur (1969-Present)

Computer Cartography Company (1969-1980)

* Designed and coded the computational geometric library for the Defense Mapping Agency now called he Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).

* Applied Census Geocoding to multiple business and political projects, including the 1970 reapportionment in multiple states

* Collaborated with Jay Forrester on the Club of Rome Project

* Worked with Ted Taylor modeling the Three Mile Island event

* Designed and applied matching algorithms that automated the Dun and Bradstreet database

* Commercialized the use of raster-to-vector machines to digitize maps, partnering with Boeing Computer Services to digitize maps of the United States waterway systems for the EPA.

* Claritas Corporation – Built the PRIZM marketing data system using clustering algorithms to group zip codes by demographic affinity and developed market models for the launch of Home Box Office (HBO).

Booze Allen and Hamilton (1982-1984)

* Led the team that automated the US Postal Service, utilizing the C programming language in one of its earliest large-scale applications

* Worked with Roger Shank to create an automated postal agent

The Data Doctor (1984-1999)

* Founder and developer of Vality Technology’s data quality management software, Integrity® (Now IBM DataStage), Was known as the Data Doctor as a founder of the ETL Data Quality industry.

* Designed a pattern-matching system that understood the meaning of structured data and corrected data quality issues such as name ambiguity

* Built a 2nd order logic language model called Axion to maintain C and machine code libraries.

Semantic AI Models (2000-Present)

* Filed a patent in 1997 that described automating the build of a knowledge graph using reference corpora like encyclopedias (US Patent 7720799), granted in 2010. This patent describe the construction of a semantic web.

* Developed a website demonstrating the patent concept using World Book encyclopedia aa a directory of topics

* Provided US counter-intelligence agencies after 9/11 with a concept library focused on weapons of mass destruction

* Awarded the Senatorial Medal of Freedom

* Contracted with the world’s leading publishers to supply reference corpora to build an unbounded general knowledge graph

* Implemented NLP algorithms to construct predicate triples from corpora sentences, creating a common-sense fact-based ontology.

* Product manager for the semantic AI software stack and ontology data structure called DeepMeaningAI^TM by Intellisophic

* Product manager of the consumer directory service iKNOWit, an ad-supported knowledge browsing service based on interests as an alternative to keyword search

* Social entrepreneur building a decentralized source of clean knowledge called AICYC, an AI-generated encyclopedia combining LLM-based automatic article writing with fact-checking and sourcing of a semantic AI model

Buddhist Monk and Zen Master (1980-Present)

* Founding Abbot of the Zen Temple at the Air Force Academy chapel.

* 84th generation master in the Japanese Rinzai Zen tradition

George Wiley Burch’s exceptional career showcases his expertise in mathematics, technology, and entrepreneurship, as well as his dedication to driving positive change through innovative solutions and spiritual guidance.

He is the OG of Semantic AI.