About Us
President
Beth Huffer
Beth is the founder and President of Lingua Logica. She is a philosopher and a lover of logic, semantics, ontology and data. She has been working in the semantic technology field since 1998, when she joined the Cyc Project in Austin, Texas. Beth has worked on knowledge representation, formal logic modeling, and implementation of semantic technologies for U.S. Government agencies including the FAA, DOD, DHS, NASA, and NOAA, and in the private and academic sectors at Cyc, HIGHFLEET, Microsoft, and the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has extensive experience in ontology-supported applications for semantic search and data analytics.
Beth is a former chair and current member of the Semantic Technology Committee of the Earth Science Information Partners, a member of the American Geophysical Union, and the Research Data Alliance. She is the principal investigator for AMP: An Automated Metadata Pipeline, a project of NASA’s Advanced Information Systems Technology Program.
Chief Technology Officer
Matt Rutherford
Matt is an interdisciplinarian with a wide-ranging technical skillset covering backend, middleware, ops, UI/UX, web design, and Agile along with fine art, music, and long-distance hiking. This allows him to seamlessly translate between diverse sets of stakeholders and distill complex, cross-domain requirements into elegant, actionable, sustainable solutions.
Matt received an M.S. in Computer Science from Christopher Newport University in 2014. His thesis work focused on designing and training an expert system that used fuzzy matching and parser combinators to interpret, correct, and standardize millions of raw, highly incongruous NASA atmospheric data files produced by various airborne and satellite-based scientific campaigns.
Soon after receiving his Master's, Matt joined Lingua Logica as one of its first employees and has since worked as an engineer with the company on multiple NASA contracts across multiple tenures. In his time with Lingua Logica, he’s designed and implemented systems to manage the ASDC's vast atmospheric science data offerings across multiple databases, maintained the ODISEES web application, and designed org-wide project management workflows. He now manages MAIA Surface Monitor data fetch, processing, and publication operations.
Matt has also worked for Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company, FireEye, as the primary engineer for the modular PX UI, which provided users with a suite of intuitive visual tools to control and analyze packet capture across their networks, enabling enterprise forensics and in-depth threat analysis.