Philip M. Parker Explained

Philip M. Parker
Birth Date:20 June 1960
Birth Place:U.S.
Nationality:American
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]

Early life

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]

Work

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.

Books on economics

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.

Online reference works

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]

Automatically generated books

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]

Digital poetry

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]

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  1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,266,767.PN.&OS=PN/7,266,767&RS=PN/7,266,767 Method and apparatus for automated authoring and marketing
  2. Web site: Cohen . Noam . He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) . . 2008-04-14 . 2010-08-03 . https://archive.today/20230323065617/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all . 2023-03-23 . live.
  3. http://www.ftd.de/lifestyle/outofoffice/353773.html Ein Mann sieht Code
  4. Web site: Philip M Parker . INSEAD.edu . 17 September 2015 . 13 December 2022.
  5. Web site: The Editor – Philip M. Parker is the instigator behind Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition (www.websters-online-dictionary.org). websters-online-dictionary.org. Icon Group International, Inc. 2010-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20100802120110/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/credits/editor.html. 2010-08-02. dead.
  6. Web site: EdgeMaven Media – Case Studies – Web Site Creation – World's largest multilingual dictionary: Webster's Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).. 2010-08-31. 2010. Edgemaven.com. Icon Group International, Inc. San Diego. https://web.archive.org/web/20100705093227/http://www.edgemaven.com/Case_Studies.html. 2010-07-05. live.
  7. Web site: Fascinating facts about Philip Parker inventor of the W-O-D Project in 1999.. Ideafinder.com. Vaunt Design Group. 2010-08-31. 2006-11-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20100825144534/http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/parker.htm. 2010-08-25. dead.
  8. Web site: Webster's Online Dictionary. Definition: dictionary. websters-online-dictionary.org. Icon Group International, Inc. 2010-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20110110022513/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/dictionary?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=dictionary&sa=Search#922. 2011-01-10. dead.
  9. Heather Zeiger, "Search engines: Closing the gap for minority languages", Mind Matters News, November 17, 2021
  10. Book: The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Spinal Stenosis . 2002. 978-0597831942. James N. Parker . Philip M. Parker .
  11. 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.01.050. 0016-5085. 126. 3. 929. Heneghan. Michael A.. McFarlane. Ian G.. Book review. The Official Patient's Sourcebook on autoimmune hepatitis: Edited by James N. Parker and Philip M. Parker. 192 pp. $28.95. Icon Health Publications, San Diego, California, 2002. ISBN 0-597-83418-0. Gastroenterology. 2010-08-28. March 2004. https://www.webcitation.org/5sJWVI05C?url=http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0016-5085/PIIS0016508504001337.pdf. 2010-08-28. live.
  12. Book: Icon Health Publications. 0-597-83977-8. James N.. Parker. Philip M.. Parker. Hemoglobin – A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References. San Diego. The 3-in-1 Medical Reference. 2004. https://www.webcitation.org/5sKCyhj5U?url=http://203.172.120.45/homelibrary/EBook_data/Hemoglobin%20A%20Medical%20Dictionary%2C%20Bibliography%2C%20and%20Annotated%20Research%20Guide%20to%20Internet%20Reference.pdf. 2010-08-28. 2010-08-29. dead.
  13. Web site: Fromage Frais wins odd title prize. Thebookseller.com. The Bookseller Media Group. London. 2009-03-27. 2009-03-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20100327194426/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/81144-fromage-frais-wins-odd-title-prize.html. 2010-03-27. dead.
  14. Web site: Gibson. Joel. Puzzled publisher at a loss for words. smh.com.au. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2010-08-06. 2008-12-19. https://www.webcitation.org/5rnOOcU5C?url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/puzzled-publisher-at-a-loss-for-words/2008/12/18/1229189804499.html. 2010-08-07. live. And: Web site: Publisher at a loss for words. Brisbane Times. 2008-12-19. 2008-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20081219185228/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/publisher-at-a-loss-for-words/2008/12/18/1229189864019.html. 2008-12-19. live.
  15. Book: Icon Group International, Inc. Ducking: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Inc. 978-0-546-69470-3 . ii . 2009-11-27. 2008-11-26 .
  16. Book: Royle, Nicholas . Veering: A Theory of Literature . Edinburgh . Edinburgh University Press . 2011 . 978-0-7486-3654-9 . 2014-10-19 . 11 .
  17. http://totopoetry.com/credits/graphtheoreticpoetry.htm An Introduction to "graph theoretic poetry"
  18. http://totopoetry.com/poetry/poeticforms.htm "Graph theoretic" Poetic Forms