Ora Lassila

Ora Lassila is a Finnish computer scientist who lives in the U.S. and works as an Associate Director of Data Engineering and Governance at Accenture. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area. His early work in this area included proposing the original RDF Specification with Ralph R. Swick and he was an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board from 1998 to 2013. He was also a member of the steering committee of the Semantic Web Science Association.