Ambjörn Naeve (www.nada.kth.se/~amb) has a background in both mathematics and computer science and received his PhD in computer science from KTH in
1993. With his Garden of Knowledge project (1996-98) he initiated the research on
interactive learning environments at KTH, where he presently heads the knowledge
management research group (http://kmr.nada.kth.se). He is also the coordinator of
research on interactive learning environments at the Uppsala Learning Lab at Uppsala University. The KMR group has been involved in Semantic Web research and
development since 1999. The work of the KMR group focuses on how to make use
of Semantic Web technology in order to enable more efficient forms of technologyenhanced learning and administration, and support the emergence of a public knowledge and learning management environment. Prominent among the KMR tools are
the frameworks SCAM (http://scam.sourceforge.net) and SHAME (http://kmr.nada.
kth.se/shame), the concept browser Conzilla (www.conzilla.org), and the electronic
portfolio system Confolio (www.confolio.org). The KMR-group is active within
several international networks in technology-enhanced learning and Semantic Web,
notably, Prolearn (www.prolearn.eu), SIGSEMIS (www.sigsemis.org), and Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org). Ambjörn Naeve is also a well-known industry consultant
with extensive experience in conceptual modeling for software engineering and
business applications. He is the inventor of Conzilla and has developed a conceptual
modeling technique called unified language modeling (http://kmr.nada.kth.se/cm),
which is specially designed to depict conceptual relationships in a linguistically
coherent way - that is, to “draw how we talk about things.”