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Philip M. Parker | |
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Born | U.S. | June 20, 1960
Nationality | American |
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Institution | INSEAD |
Alma mater | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
Philip M. Parker (born June 20, 1960) is an American economist and academic, currently the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template that is filled with data from databases and Internet searches. [1] He claims that his programs have written more than 200,000 books. [2] [3]
Born dyslexic, Parker early on developed a passion for dictionaries. [3] He gained undergraduate degrees in finance and economics. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has master's degrees in finance and banking from Aix-Marseille University and managerial economics from Wharton. [4]
He was a professor of economics and business at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to INSEAD, where he has been a professor of marketing since 1988. His work focuses primarily on macroeconomics. [4] He introduced the idea that physical sciences (physics and physiology) should be directly integrated into microeconomics.
Parker has written six books on national economic development and economic divergence. His books argue that consumer utility and consumption functions should be bounded by physical laws and against economic axioms that violate laws of physics, such as the conservation of energy.[ clarification needed]
Parker is also involved—as an entrepreneur publisher and editor—in new media reference work projects. He is the creator of Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition, a multilingual online dictionary created in 1999. [5] [6] [7] It uses the " Webster's" name, which is now in the public domain. This site compiles different online dictionaries and encyclopedias including Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Wiktionary, and Wikipedia. [8]
In 2021, Parker was reported to be working on a multilingual "content engine" project named Botipedia, designed to use natural language learning and algorithmic search engine sifting to fill the translation gap for web content. This would enable speakers of minority languages to view web content in their own language. [9]
Most of Parker's automatically generated books target niche markets (the " long tail" concept). Examples include:
All books are self-published paperbacks. Ninety-five percent of the ordered books are sent out electronically; the rest are printed on demand. [3] Parker plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels. [2]
Using a collection of automation programs called "Eve", Parker has applied his techniques within his dictionary project to digital poetry; he reports posting over 1.3 million poems, aspiring to reach one poem for each word found in the English language. [17] He refers to these as "graph theoretic poems" since they are generated using graph theory, where "graph" refers to mathematical values that relate words to each other in a semantic web. He has posted in the thesaurus section of his online dictionary the values used in these algorithms. The poems are in a wide variety of styles, including some invented by Parker himself. His poems are didactic in nature, and either define the entry word in question or highlight its antonyms. He has stated plans to expand these to many languages and is experimenting with other poetic forms. [18]
This article contains content that is written like
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Philip M. Parker | |
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Born | U.S. | June 20, 1960
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Institution | INSEAD |
Alma mater | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
Philip M. Parker (born June 20, 1960) is an American economist and academic, currently the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template that is filled with data from databases and Internet searches. [1] He claims that his programs have written more than 200,000 books. [2] [3]
Born dyslexic, Parker early on developed a passion for dictionaries. [3] He gained undergraduate degrees in finance and economics. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has master's degrees in finance and banking from Aix-Marseille University and managerial economics from Wharton. [4]
He was a professor of economics and business at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to INSEAD, where he has been a professor of marketing since 1988. His work focuses primarily on macroeconomics. [4] He introduced the idea that physical sciences (physics and physiology) should be directly integrated into microeconomics.
Parker has written six books on national economic development and economic divergence. His books argue that consumer utility and consumption functions should be bounded by physical laws and against economic axioms that violate laws of physics, such as the conservation of energy.[ clarification needed]
Parker is also involved—as an entrepreneur publisher and editor—in new media reference work projects. He is the creator of Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition, a multilingual online dictionary created in 1999. [5] [6] [7] It uses the " Webster's" name, which is now in the public domain. This site compiles different online dictionaries and encyclopedias including Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Wiktionary, and Wikipedia. [8]
In 2021, Parker was reported to be working on a multilingual "content engine" project named Botipedia, designed to use natural language learning and algorithmic search engine sifting to fill the translation gap for web content. This would enable speakers of minority languages to view web content in their own language. [9]
Most of Parker's automatically generated books target niche markets (the " long tail" concept). Examples include:
All books are self-published paperbacks. Ninety-five percent of the ordered books are sent out electronically; the rest are printed on demand. [3] Parker plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels. [2]
Using a collection of automation programs called "Eve", Parker has applied his techniques within his dictionary project to digital poetry; he reports posting over 1.3 million poems, aspiring to reach one poem for each word found in the English language. [17] He refers to these as "graph theoretic poems" since they are generated using graph theory, where "graph" refers to mathematical values that relate words to each other in a semantic web. He has posted in the thesaurus section of his online dictionary the values used in these algorithms. The poems are in a wide variety of styles, including some invented by Parker himself. His poems are didactic in nature, and either define the entry word in question or highlight its antonyms. He has stated plans to expand these to many languages and is experimenting with other poetic forms. [18]