Semantic fingerprinting: Democratising natural language processing

Francisco took an interest in information technology as a medical student specializing in genetics and serology at the University of Vienna. He participated in various research projects at the Vienna Serological Institute and was heavily involved in medical data processing. He took part in such projects as establishing and organizing Austria's dialysis register database and creating a patient documentation system for the university clinic. In the mid-1990s, he worked with Konrad Becker to found Vienna's Institute for New Culture Technologies and Public Netbase - at that time Austria's only free public-access internet server - thus establishing an international competency platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies. In 2005, Francisco founded Matrixware Information Services, a company that developed the first standardised database of patents under the name of Alexandria, where he acted as a CEO. He also initiated the foundation of the Information Retrieval Facility in 2006, a not-for-profit research institute, with the goal to reduce the gap between science and industry.