Ashmanov Igor Stanislavovich

Igor Ashmanov

Igor Ashmanov is a CEO "Ashmanov and Partners", the chairman of the board of directors of Nanosemantika company. Candidate of Technical Sciences, the famous specialist in the field of artificial intelligence, software development, project management. Graduated from the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

Career

Igor Ashmanov is engaged in information technologies since 1983. He directed development of a spell checker of ORTHO in Information science, was a co-owner and the CEO of the MediaLingua company publishing the MultiLex dictionaries, the chief executive of Rambler Internet holding.

Quote^[1]: "When Anton Borisovich Nosik "headed Rambler" on May 15, 2001, I left in 20 minutes after to me it was announced by Victor Huako, the head of holding of that time. Huako was absolutely enraged by my sharp dismissal, having seen in it mistrust not only to Nosik, but also to himself personally. Quite deservedly, of course. Only absolutely the innocent in Internet business the Peruvian from hollow club could employ Nosik. To convince of anything Huaka, having deliberately slammed the door, I, of course, could not. And I such after dismissal - had no purpose. What for the sake of - still to borrow on the old place of my people who were necessary to me in new business on development of an antispam? In a month, in July, 2001, I already had an AIP home company, through two - in it all main technical top managers of Rambler, including the technical director, the chief of the search engine and other worked".

During this time it produced several tens of projects among which:

• the linguistic module ORFO (a spell checker and style, the thesaurus, the module of transfers) in the Russian version of Microsoft Office whom millions of people across all Russia use;
• the electronic dictionaries MultiLex which are still remaining the best professional tool of the translator in Russia;
• the modern version of the search engine of Rambler in 2001 and the majority of the websites and services working now at the Rambler portal.
• spam filter of "Spamtest" protecting tens of millions of users (now is on sale under the Kaspersky's Antispam brand).
• the news search engine "Novoteka" aggregating and news klasterizuyushchiya from hundreds of sources.
• national search Fleksum is service for creation of thematic searchers.

Quotes

On December 23, 2014 in the press center of RBC there took place the press conference "Management of a media field and reputation of business during crisis and information wars", organized by Ashmanov and Partners company. Igor Ashmanov noted that Facebook and Twitter as uncontrollable by the state of the platform really can be in the future closed if there is a real threat of their use as tool of the organization of violent change of authorities in power. In terms of monitoring and reputation management on social networks loss of Twitter will be significant as this platform is most convenient for prompt response on a negative, tracking of dynamics of interests of audience of the Internet and also the analysis of propagation vectors of information now.

Family

Igor Ashmanov's spouse is Natalya Kasperskaya.

Igor and Natalya have two children.

Awards

Igor Ashmanov is a participant of the International union of Internet figures "HEDGEHOG", won against two times the Person of Year nomination in the network tender ROTOR (in ROTOR 2004 and in POTOP-2006).

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