Ambjörn Naeve has a background in both mathematics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in computer science from KTH in 1993. With his Garden of Knowledge project (1996-98) he initiated the research on interactive learning environments at CID at KTH, where he presently heads the Knowledge Management Research group. 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 technology-enhanced learning and administration, and support the emergence of a Public Knowledge and Learning Management Environment. Prominent among the KMR tools are the frameworks SCAM and SHAME, the concept browser Conzilla, and the electronic portfolio system Confolio. The KMR-group is active within several international networks in technology-enhanced learning and Semantic Web, notably, Prolearn, SIGSEMIS and Sakai.
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, which is specially designed to depict conceptual relationships in a linguistically coherent way - i.e. in order to “draw how we talk about things”.