Daniel Tunkelang is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Endeca, a leading enterprise search vendor. He studied math and computer science at MIT, and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. Before joining Endeca's founding team, he worked at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and AT&T Bell Labs. Daniel is a passionate advocate of dialog-oriented, exploratory approaches to search, and he blogs about these subjects at The Noisy Channel. Daniel has also spearheaded annual workshops on Human Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR), and is organizing the Industry Track at the upcoming ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference.

He blogs at http://thenoisychannel.com/.