2b:null 2c:["$","title",null,{"children":"digitization | datagenous | Observable"}] 31:T8c5,md`## __ Ivan Labra__ Ivan originally studied art criticism, aesthetic philosophy, and semiotics at [Pomona College](https://www.pomona.edu/). Ivan began his career in technology working for IBM in Seattle, Washington in the mid 1990s in on a project that became the [world’s largest Java development effort](https://www.drdobbs.com/ibms-san-francisco-project/184415597). During this time period, Ivan worked on teams developing commercial solutions for distributed systems and commercializing Object Orientation. Ivan used his free time to help start an online [digital arts collective](http://www.bornmagazine.org/about.html) focused on experimentation in emerging Web technologies and the modalities they afforded. Ivan moved back to California in the late 90’s where he worked at a start-up in Silicon Valley as a product architect in research and development, at one of the first application service providers or ASPs (now known as SaaS). In 2003 Ivan moved to Europe and worked for the US Department of Defense leading a Research and Development Program on Transformational Command and Control, developing decentralized generative technologies for complex distributed disaster response scenarios. In 2006 Ivan accepted a position to join the Research Faculty at the [Cebrowski Institute](https://nps.edu/web/cebrowski) Naval PostGraduate School under [Peter Denning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Denning) focused on the study of generative networks. In 2017 Ivan returned to his product design and development roots joining datagraph and helping it develop datageno.us, a combination of advanced data technologies and expert services designed to enable generative symbolic systems. During this time Ivan also served as an advisor to early stage startup [Reduct](https://app.reduct.video/lapd/walk-the-talk/) specialising in the collaborative use of AI and video. In 2020 Ivan launched labra.studio as a cybernetic studio and discovery space for the cultivation of imaginative and generative work based in symbolic systems and their many manifestations. Working with datgeno.us at his studio, Ivan currently enjoys pursuing his lifelong interests in blurring the line between the useful, coherent, elegant, and evocative.`32:T753,md`## James Anderson James studied architecture, graduated with degrees in architectural design and architectural history, and taught, as a professor at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://web.mit.edu/). He taught computer assisted design there in addition to researching the work of [Hans Scharoun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Scharoun) and his approach to reconciling organic and modernist methods. Prior to founding Datagraph, James was a contributing developer of a financial markets prediction application for a group of private investors in the United States and Germany. The system, which derives market predictions from sentiment-based analysis, was employed by [Dow Jones](https://www.dowjones.com/). Most recently James’ work has focused on distributed streaming semantic data publishing papers with Fraunhofer: RDF Rule Streams - A Position Paper, and on RDF Graph Stores as Convergent Datatypes, as well as developing new symbolic representation technologies based on [Category Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory). A "drop out" from [Bronx Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_High_School_of_Science), James began taking computer science classes while in high school at [Columbia University](https://www.columbia.edu/). Whilst studying architecture at MIT his weekend job was managing the second Internet connected node on the east coast for [BBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies). With over five decades of development experience, one can say he has been around distributed systems for a while. He has been playing squash for almost as long as he has been coding and is usually up for a game if you care to step on the court. Other interests include panoramic photography, clarks, and krav maga. 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