Nic Fulton

Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters (New York, London, Sydney)
 
Nic Fulton is the Chief Scientist of Reuters Media with a responsibility for designing and architecting multi-media products and investigating how the company can take advantage of new and emerging technologies in its product line.

One of Nic's key responsibilities is heading up Reuters Labs which is a public showcase of early product features and concepts.
 
Recent projects Nic has led include: use of mobile phones for professional news reporting; the role of social networks in news; cross-medium news consumption and personalization; and the use of music as a medium to deliver news to gen-Y.
 
Nic has been instrumental in the design and development of Reuters interactive TV , mobile and web products and has expertise across the media technology space. He has been an active agent for change in his ten years with Reuters, bringing the web, Java, XML and a number of other key technologies into the company. He led the application of XML in Reuters finance and media content products, and was actively involved with the W3C as XML was developing with involvement in standards consortia including FpML, NewsML and XBRL.
 
Nic has also been a long term member of Reuters core Research and Standards group in which he acted as an internal consultant to many key Internet projects, including Reuters Foundation's AlertNet site.
 
Nic acts as an ad-hoc advisor to a number of start-ups in new-media and finance, and is an active member of several business networking groups.
 
Nic has a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of London.