Nick D'Aloisio (born November 1, 1995) is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is an automatic summarization algorithm, developed with SRI International.
3. Introduction
D'Aloisio was born in London, England in 1995
Internet entrepreneur
Youngest self-made millionaire
"Innovator of the Year“ Award in 2013
Product Manager and Creator of Yahoo News Digest
4. About D’Aloisio
D'Aloisio was born in London, England in 1995
His Father Lou Montilla is vice president at UK Morgan
Stanley
His Mother Diana D'Aloisio is a lawyer
He along with his family moved to Australia
But when at the age of 7, D'Aloisio got scholarship he
came back to London
He was Student in KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL in
Wimbledon, London
After completing A level exams in 2014 now he is a
student in Oxford University
5. Inspiration
His biggest inspiration was the launch of
app store by Apple in 2008
When Apple launched its iPhone App Store
in 2008 he visited an Apple Store and asked
the staff how he could learn the coding to
make his own apps.
6. Learning
He started learning basic programming and he
succeeded to develop an application for IOS
Finger Mill – a workout for your fingers – at the
end of summer 2008.
It was the only thing available on the web that
a 12-year-old could do.
The first day, He put that app in the store, He
made £79. To him, that was amazing.
7. Social Skills and Personal Behavior
Deterministic Approach
Continuity in Learning
Mature Ideas
Thinking out of the boundary
Luck is for Gamblers
8. Hard work
He developed 3 applications during his self
learning period.
1) SongStumblr - a geosocial music discovery tool
2) 3DUniverse - utilized the Unity game engine to
demonstrate real world environments in space.
3) Facemood - sentiment analysis algorithm that
parsed Facebook status' and deduced mood.
9. Idea Germination
At the age of 15 which was his self learning period
he encountered a problem while reading articles
and books form internet on his mobile phone.
He realized that there was inefficiency while
consuming information on your phone because of
less room for display and it is hard to go through a
lot of text and you don’t have any understanding
and connectivity of what you are reading.
He thought of producing textual summary of
content.
10. Struggle
He started searching the technique of Natural Language
Processing
He found that there was some work done on automatic text
summarization in 1960’s.
He modified those classical approaches and developed a new
paradigm for mobile phones with the name of TRIMIT APP.
Beyond his expectations APPLE recognized it in it TOP 12
Applications of the week.
11. Road to Success
His first International Sponsorship at the age of 15.
It was his brilliant planning that made them interested in
investing on him.
D'Aloisio used the feedback and criticism from Trimit to
completely re-design the application, and re-launched it in
December 2011, as Summly.
In 2011 launched Beta Version of Summly
Li Ka-shing
12. What is Summly?
The Idea Behind Summly was to take a webpage. Copy
and Paste its contents in Summly and quickly it produces
the summary of it.
Beta version of Summly being downloaded by over
200,000 users
It used an analytical tool to condense text content into
1000, 500, or 140-character summary text depending
upon the size of the original content.
13. Mind Mapping
He realized that it would be hard to persuade
people to come and work with him as he was a
teenager.
The major concern was to make an end product
with high precision.(BH)
14. Form Entrepreneur to Corporate
Business Man
A business man joined his venture and taught
him the techniques and tricks to bring Summly
to corporate level.
He started working on same algorithm with his
team and successfully launched Summly on
corporate level.
By working with them he could have access to all
the information, resources and knowledge
required to make his product perfect.
15. Dream Come True
He dreams of the day when every mobile device
features some form of summarization technology,
whether Summly-branded or not.
Summly launched in November 2012 and received
Apple's Award for Best Apps of 2012 for Intuitive
Touch, as well as being featured in over 50
countries as "App of the Week". Over 90 million
summaries were read by Summly's users.
Later in March 2013 Yahoo acquired Summly
reported 30$ million US Dollar
16. Future of Nick D’Aloisio
D'Aloisio has now decided that he is heading back to
academia, taking up a joint honours in Computer
Science and Philosophy at Oxford University's
Hertford College later this month, while continuing to
ferry back and forth to California as Project Manager
at Digest.
"Although a lot of business stuff is fun, at the end of
the day I'm a technologist and I'm passionate about
the subject."