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'''Nicholas D'Aloisio''' (born 1 November 1995) is a British [[computer programmer]] and internet [[entrepreneur]]. He is the founder of [[Summly]], a mobile app which automatically summarises news articles and other material, which was acquired by [[Yahoo]] for $30M, according to allthingsd.com, but the price wasn't officially disclosed.<ref name="allthingsd.com">{{cite web|url=http://allthingsd.com/20130325/yahoo-paid-30-million-in-cash-for-18-months-of-young-summly-entrepreneurs-time |title=Yahoo Paid 30 Million in Cash For 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time}}</ref> D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of [[venture capital]] in technology, at the age of 16.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/apps/9954896/Nick-DAloisio-It-was-a-massive-gamble-but-a-good-one.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327033526/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/apps/9954896/Nick-DAloisio-It-was-a-massive-gamble-but-a-good-one.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 March 2013|title=Nick D'Aloisio: 'It was a massive gamble but a good one'|last=Rainey|first=Sarah|journal=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 March 2013|access-date=2020-01-17|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lomas |first=Natasha |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/03/true-ventures-invests-in-brian-wong-teenager-kiip/ |title=True Ventures Invests in 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Brian Wong |work=TechCrunch |date=3 August 2010 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by [[Twitter]] in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from [[Index Ventures]] and [[Mike Moritz]].<ref name="BBC News">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58998315 |date=21 October 2021|accessdate=21 October 2021|title=British entrepreneur sells company to Twitter |work=BBC News }}</ref><ref name="techcrunch.com">{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/20/twitter-acquires-group-chat-app-sphere/ |date=21 October 2021|accessdate=21 October 2021|title=Twitter acquires group chat app Sphere }}</ref><ref name=":2" /> He is also a student at [[Oxford University]], where he graduated from the [[BPhil]] in Philosophy in July 2021 and now is undertaking the PhD ([[DPhil]]) course.<ref name="oxford.academia.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://oxford.academia.edu/nickdaloisio|title=Nick D'Aloisio {{!}} University of Oxford - Academia.edu|website=oxford.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> D'Aloisio has had seven papers accepted for publication or revision & resubmission in peer-reviewed journals.<ref name="oxford.academia.edu"/>
'''Nick D'Aloisio''' (born November 1, 1995)<ref>{{cite web|title=Nick D'Aloisio, Britain's 17-year-old app entrepreneur - Telegraph|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9885632/Nick-DAloisio-Britains-17-year-old-app-entrepreneur.html}}</ref> is a [[British-Australian]] [[entrepreneur]], [[computer programmer]] and [[designer]] who has become known for the creation of [[Summly]] and its technology.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16306742 BBC article (Jane Wakefield)]</ref> D'Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology at just 15 years of age <ref>[http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/world-s-youngest-vc-funded-entrepreneur-.html SmallBiz (Web journal)]</ref><ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/03/true-ventures-invests-in-brian-wong-teenager-kiip/ TechCrunch (Web journal)]</ref>. D'Aloisio's business partners include [[Li Ka-Shing]], [[Rupert Murdoch]], [[Ashton Kutcher]], [[Stephen Fry]], [[Yoko Ono]] and [[Mark Pincus]], among others.
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==Early life and education==
D'Aloisio was born in [[Melbourne, Australia]]. Having spent some years there, D’Aloisio left Australia for the United Kingdom at the age of 7 with his lawyer mother and banker father.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/technology/teens-multimilliondollar-yahoo-payday-before-18th-birthday-20130326-2gqvg.html|title=Teen's multimillion-dollar Yahoo payday before 18th birthday|last=Grubb|first=Ben|date=26 March 2013|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref> When he was seven, they returned to London. D'Aloisio was educated at [[King's College School]], an [[independent school]] for boys in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], south west London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/summly-founder-nick-daloisio-raises-12m-for-new-app-mh7b57l8w|title=Summly founder Nick D'Aloisio raises £12m for new app|last=Frean|first=Alexandra|date=6 October 2017|work=The Times|access-date=16 March 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> In the summer of 2014, he took [[GCE Advanced Level|A-level]] examinations at [[King's College School]], Wimbledon. From 2014, D'Aloisio studied his undergraduate degree in [[philosophy]] and computer science at [[Hertford College]], [[Oxford University]].<ref name="wired.co.uk">{{cite magazine|last=Clark|first=Liat|date=23 September 2014|title=Exclusive: Nick D'Aloisio to combine Oxford studies with Yahoo role (Wired UK)|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-09/24/nick-daloisio-exclusive|magazine=Wired UK|accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> In 2019, he commenced the [[BPhil]] graduate programme in Philosophy at [[Oxford University]], and then advanced onto the [[DPhil]] (PhD) course in 2021.<ref name="oxford.academia.edu"/>


Since 2017, D'Aloisio has published a number of academic papers in peer-reviewed journals.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=https://oxford.academia.edu/nickdaloisio|title=Nick D'Aloisio, Academic Profile}}</ref> One of them'','' titled "Imagery and Overflow: We See More Than We Report", was published in ''[[Philosophical Psychology]]''<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=d'Aloisio-Montilla|first1=Nicholas|year=2017|title=Imagery and overflow: We see more than we report|journal=Philosophical Psychology|volume=30|issue=5|pages=545–570|doi=10.1080/09515089.2017.1298086|s2cid=151734484}}</ref> He presented a second paper at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, [[University of Antwerp]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=d&#39|first1=Nick|title=Two Seeming Successes of Introspection Workshop|url=https://www.academia.edu/33205300}}</ref> A third paper was published in the philosophy journal ''[[Ratio (journal)|Ratio]]'', and three more papers were accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journals ''[[Philosophia]]'', ''[[Disputatio]]'' and ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=d&#39|first1=Nick|title=A Brief Argument For Consciousness Without Access|journal=Ratio |year=2017 |volume=31 |issue=2 |page=119 |url=https://www.academia.edu/34204935}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=d'Aloisio-Montilla|first1=Nicholas|year=2018|title=A Brief Argument For Consciousness Without Access|journal=Ratio|volume=31|issue=2|pages=119–136|doi=10.1111/rati.12183}}</ref>
==Personal life==
D'Aloisio was born in [[London]] in 1995 to parents Diana and Lou. He lived in both Melbourne and Perth.
D'Aloisio grew up in [[London, United Kingdom]], attending [[King's College School]], in Wimbledon where he received an Academic Scholarship. He is still based in London. His mother Diana D'Aloisio (born 1959)<ref>{{cite web|title=Diana D'Aloisio|url=https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/624594/diana-d-aloisio}}</ref> is a lawyer and his father Lou Montilla is vice president at Morgan Stanley.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lou Montilla|url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/loumontilla}}</ref>


==Summly==
==Career==
===Summly===
D'Aloisio received his first computer at 9 and used it to create movies with editing tools such as [[Final Cut Pro]]. D'Aloisio began writing [[application software|apps]] at the age of 12 in 2008.
In March 2011, D'Aloisio launched an iOS app named Trimit, which used an algorithm to condense text such as emails and blog posts into a summary of 1000, 500, or 140-character text.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lomas |first=Natasha |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/trimit-summarizes-emails-blog-posts-and-more-with-a-shake-of-your-iphone/ |title=Trimit Summarizes Emails, Blog Posts, And More with a Shake of Your iPhone |work=TechCrunch |date=15 July 2011 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> With 100,000 downloads,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16306742|title=Teenage app prodigy hits jackpot|last=Wakefield|first=Jane|date=28 December 2011|access-date=16 March 2019|language=en-GB}}</ref> the app was featured as on the Apple [[App Store (iOS)|App Store]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trimit/id446909528?mt=8 |title=trimit for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store |publisher=Itunes.apple.com |date=12 August 2011 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, Trimit attracted the attention of business magnate [[Li Ka-Shing]], who provided 16-year-old D'Aloisio with US$300,000 in venture capital investment.<ref name="huffpo">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/summly-nick-daloisio_n_2065796.html |title=17-Year-Old Summly Founder Nick D'Aloisio's Immodest Goal: Change The Way You Read News |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= 2 November 2012|accessdate=28 October 2013 |first=Dino |last=Grandoni}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/londons-top-25-under-25s-theyre-young-and-successful-deal-with-it-8552037.html|title=London's top 25 under-25s: they're young and successful – deal with it|date=28 March 2013|website=Evening Standard|language=en|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> After gathering feedback, D'Aloisio re-designed the app and renamed it Summly in December 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=Heesun Wee |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/49854407 |title=Meet the 17-Year-Old Who Is Reinventing News |publisher=Cnbc.com |date=16 November 2012 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref>


Summly aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on [[smartphones]],<ref name="huffpo" /> with the initial version of Summly being downloaded by over 200,000 users.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/336224 |title=Teenager receives $1 million for creating app |publisher=Digitaljournal.com |date=5 November 2012 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> He hired a team from [[Israel]], including a scientist named Inderjeet Mani, who specialised in natural language processing, to improve the app.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-teen-nick-d8217aloisio-has-changed-the-way-we-read-1383785217 |title=How Teen Nick D'Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Seth |last=Stevenson |date=11 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/03/26/what-does-30-million-buy-you |title=What Does $30 Million Buy You? | work=The Wall Street Journal | date=26 March 2013}}</ref> With corporate support,<ref>{{cite web|last=Bradshaw |first=Tim |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3904bc10-28d5-11e2-b92c-00144feabdc0.html |title=The savvy network behind Summly |publisher=FT.com |date=8 November 2012 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> in November 2012, D'Aloisio received US$1 million in new venture funding from celebrities such as [[Yoko Ono]], [[Ashton Kutcher]] and [[Stephen Fry]], in addition to [[Li Ka-shing|Li Ka-Shing]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Lomas |first=Natasha |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/summly-app-nick-daloisio-video-interview/ |title=Backed With $1M in Fresh Funding, Summly's 17-Year-Old Founder Shows Off His App's New Look [TCTV |work=TechCrunch |date=1 November 2012 |accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> In March 2013, D'Aloiso sold Summly to [[Yahoo!]] for approximately US$30 million, according to allthingsd.com, but price wasn't officially disclosed.<ref name="allthingsd.com"/><ref name="stuff">{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8474218/Teens-multi-million-dollar-Yahoo-payday|title=Yahoo acquires mobile news start-up Summly|date=26 March 2013|work=Stuff.co.nz|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> He joined Yahoo! as a product manager the same month.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://business.time.com/2013/03/29/qa-with-the-17-year-old-who-sold-an-app-to-yahoo-for-30-million/|title=Q&A With the 17-Year-Old Who Sold an App to Yahoo for $30 Million|last=Luckerson|first=Victor|magazine=Time|access-date=16 March 2019|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
D'Aloisio created the '''Trimit''' application for iOS in March 2011, which used an analytical tool to condense text content into 1000, 500, or 140-character summary text.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/trimit-summarizes-emails-blog-posts-and-more-with-a-shake-of-your-iphone/ Trimit (news)]</ref> The app caught the attention of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] who featured ''Trimit'' as a new and noteworthy application on the [[App Store]] in July 2011.<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trimit/id446909528?mt=8 Apple Announcement 2011]</ref> The potential of Trimit attracted the attention of [[Hong Kong]] based billionaire Li Ka-shing, who provided D'Alosio with US$300,000 in venture capital funding.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/summly-nick-daloisio_n_2065796.html Venture Capital from HK]</ref> D'Alosio used the feedback and criticism from ''Trimit'' to completely re-design the application, and re-launched it in December 2011, as '''Summly'''.<ref>[http://www.cnbc.com/id/49854407 Summly launch (CNBC)]</ref> As of March, 2013 Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars.<ref>[http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8474218/Teens-multi-million-dollar-Yahoo-payday Summly Sale(Stuff)]</ref>


The Summly algorithm first decides whether a document is summarizable by using a classifier model that is trained on a dataset of summarizable documents and unsummarizable documents (such as works of fiction). Then, a scoring system is used to identity and prune uninformative and incoherent sentences until the summary drops below the word limit. The coherence score is obtained by assigning weights to the presence of features in the sentence. For short summaries, the informativeness score of a sentence is determined by language-independent features such as its position or length. For longer summaries, a [[support vector machine]] learns to detect sentences with the highest [[ROUGE (metric)|ROUGE-1 scores]]. For other summaries, a random walk is used to determine salient nodes in a graph (a la [[PageRank]]) where sentences are represented as nodes with exponentially decreasing weights for those that appear later.<ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=10599721B2|title=Method and apparatus for automatically summarizing the contents of electronic documents|status=patent|pubdate=2018-03-08|fdate=2018-07-12|pridate=2011-10-14|gdate=2020-03-24|invent1=Mani, Inderjeet|invent2=Ciurana, Eugenio|invent3=D'Aloisio-Montilla, Nicholas|invent4=K. Swanson, Bart}}</ref>
''Summly'' aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones,<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/summly-nick-daloisio_n_2065796.html ''Summly'' (Huffington Post)]</ref> with initial version of Summly being downloaded by over 200,000 users.<ref>[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/336224 Digital journal]</ref> As a result of the corporate support,<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3904bc10-28d5-11e2-b92c-00144feabdc0.html Financial Times of London]</ref> in November, 2012, D'Alosio received US$1,000,000 in new venture funding for ''Summly'' from several international celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry, in addition to Hong Kong business mogul Li Ka-shing.<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/summly-app-nick-daloisio-video-interview/ D'Alosio receives $1 M in new VC funding]</ref>


===Yahoo News Digest===
Summly's cover page images were created by world-renowned visual artist/photographer [[Kevin Abosch]].<ref>[http://summly.com/about.html]</ref>
In January 2014, D'Aloisio announced the launch of Yahoo News Digest at the [[Consumer Electronics Show]] in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=McCracken |first=Harry |url=http://techland.time.com/2014/01/08/yahoos-news-digest-app-the-least-overwhelming-news-source-ever/ |title=Yahoo's News Digest App: The Least Overwhelming News Source Ever &#124; TIME.com |magazine=Time |date=8 January 2014 |accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> An evolution of Summly, Yahoo News Digest provides mobile users with a summary of important news of the day in the form of a twice-a-day digest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72587474725/yahoo-news-digest-get-in-the-know-in-no-time |title=Yahoo News Digest: Get in the Know in No Time &#124; Yahoo |publisher=Yahoo.tumblr.com |date=7 January 2014 |accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> The articles are automatically and manually curated, as well as summarised into key units of information, known as "Atoms", which include [[map]]s, [[infographic]]s, quotes and Wikipedia extracts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/90356211451/science-powering-product-yahoo-news-digest |title=Science Powering Product: Yahoo News Digest &#124; Yahoo Labs |publisher=Yahoolabs.tumblr.com |date=30 June 2014 |accessdate=16 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030052705/http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/90356211451/science-powering-product-yahoo-news-digest |archivedate=30 October 2015 }}</ref> [[The Verge]] praised the app, stating, "Yahoo! News Digest is the boldest and most visually impressive app the company has released since Yahoo! Weather last year."<ref>{{cite web|last=Newton |first=Casey |url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/7/5284300/yahoos-sleek-news-digest-app-swims-against-the-stream |title=Yahoo's sleek News Digest app swims against the stream |website=The Verge |date= 7 January 2014|accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> It was the winner of the 2014 Apple Design Award.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/02/yahoo-wins-another-apple-design-award-for-news-digest-app/ |title=Yahoo Wins Another Apple Design Award For News Digest. |work=TechCrunch |date=2 June 2014 |accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> D'Aloisio resigned from Yahoo! in October 2015.


==Investment==
=== Sphere ===
In late 2015, D'Aloisio co-founded a new startup called Sphere Knowledge. Whilst yet to be made public, Sphere is said to be knowledge-sharing service where users can swap information via instant messaging.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/43a05ff4-45b0-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3|title=Tech prodigy Nick D'Aloisio stumbles with secretive Q&A app |website=Financial Times|date=15 March 2019 |language=en-GB |access-date=16 March 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200418031646/https://www.ft.com/content/43a05ff4-45b0-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3 |archive-date=2020-04-18|last1=Bradshaw |first1=Tim }} {{subscription required}}</ref> As of March 2019, the [[Financial Times]] reports that the company has raised US$30 million.<ref name=":2" /> In October 2021, multiple news outlets including [[TechCrunch]], [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]], [[The Times]] and [[BBC]] reported that Sphere had been acquired by [[Twitter]], and that the majority of the 30-person team would be joining the company.<ref name="BBC News"/><ref name="techcrunch.com"/><ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nick-daloisio-the-british-tech-whizz-kid-whos-sold-two-apps-to-silicon-valley-drz0gfbbw |date=21 October 2021|accessdate=21 October 2021|title=Nick d'Aloisio, the British tech whizz kid who's sold two apps to Silicon Valley |last1=Odell |first1=Michael }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Field |first=Matthew |date=21 October 2021 |title=Meet the tech prodigy who’s sold a second app to Silicon Valley |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/10/22/meet-nick-daloisio-british-tech-prodigy-has-sold-second-app/ |accessdate=21 October 2021}}</ref>
At the age of 15 he completed a first round of venture capital funding for Summly from Li Ka-Shing's investment firm, [[Li Ka-Shing|Horizons Ventures]]; he is the youngest person in the world to raise [[venture capital]].<ref>[http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/11/youngest-funded-entrepreneur-raises-1-million-by-age-16.html Small Biz Trends web article]</ref>


== Awards and recognition ==
==Reception==
D'Aloisio has been covered by several major publications, including ''ReadWrite.com'',<ref>[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_read_all_your_bookmarked_links_in_minutes.php readwriteweb.com]</ref> BusinessInsider.com,<ref>[http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-19/tech/30533236_1_iphone-app-twitter-and-facebook-flipboard businessinsider.com BusinessInsider.com]</ref> [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]],<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/summly-app-summarization/ Wired.com]</ref> [[Forbes]],<ref>[http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/12/13/teenage-programmer-backed-by-hong-kong-billionaire-li-ka-shing/ forbes.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.forbes.com/sites/coelicarr/2011/09/15/10-tips-from-a-15-year-old-app-developer-on-the-vc-fast-track-how-parents-can-nurture-their-teenage-tech-prodigies/ forbes.com]</ref> The Huffington Post<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/summly-nick-daloisio_n_2065796.html Huffington Post Tech]</ref> and [[TechCrunch]].<ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/16-year-old-programmer-raises-seed-round-from-billionaire-li-ka-shing-to-summarize-the-web/ techcrunch.com]</ref> D'Aloisio has also made numerous television appearances on [[CNBC]], [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]], [[BBC]], [[ITV]], been written about in the British [[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro newspaper]], and been interviewed on [[BBC Radio Five Live]].{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} D'Aloisio also appeared on CBS This Morning in an interview with Charlie Rose, CNBC Squark Box, Bloomberg and appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight in December 2012. Summly has had critical acclaim in receiving Apple's Best Apps of 2012 award for "Intuitive Touch" and currently has a 4.5/5 star rating on the App Store.
D'Aloisio garnered media attention for being a young entrepreneur. He has been covered by major publications, including ''[[ReadWrite]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_read_all_your_bookmarked_links_in_minutes.php|title=Summly: New App Helps You Read All Your Bookmarked Links in Minutes – ReadWrite|publisher=Readwriteweb.com|accessdate=28 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905085342/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_read_all_your_bookmarked_links_in_minutes.php|archive-date=5 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[Business Insider]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/this-16-year-old-genius-scored-funding-from-a-hong-kong-billionaire-for-an-iphone-app-2011-12|title=This 16-Year-Old Genius Scored Funding From A Hong Kong Billionaire for an iPhone App – Business Insider|author=Boonsri Dickinson|date=19 December 2011|publisher=Articles.businessinsider.com|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/summly-app-summarization/|title=Teen's iOS App Uses Complex Algorithms to Summarize the Web &#124; Gadget Lab|last=Bonnington|first=Christina|date=13 December 2011|accessdate=28 October 2013|website=Wired.com}}</ref> ''[[Forbes]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/12/13/teenage-programmer-backed-by-hong-kong-billionaire-li-ka-shing/|title=Teenage Programmer Backed By Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka Shing|last=Olson|first=Parmy|date=13 December 2011|accessdate=28 October 2013|work=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/coelicarr/2011/09/15/10-tips-from-a-15-year-old-app-developer-on-the-vc-fast-track-how-parents-can-nurture-their-teenage-tech-prodigies/|title=10 Tips From A 15-Year-Old App Developer on the VC Fast Track: How Parents Can Nurture Their Teenage Tech Prodigies|last=Carr|first=Coeli|date=15 September 2011|accessdate=28 October 2013|work=Forbes}}</ref> ''[[The Huffington Post]]''<ref name="huffpo" /> and [[TechCrunch]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/16-year-old-programmer-raises-seed-round-from-billionaire-li-ka-shing-to-summarize-the-web/|title=16-Year-Old Programmer Raises Seed Round From Billionaire Li Ka Shing To 'Summarize The Web'|last=Lomas|first=Natasha|date=13 December 2011|work=TechCrunch|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> D'Aloisio has also made numerous television appearances.<ref name="cochlearium-argentum">[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/29/summly-creator-nick-daloisio-interview Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 29 March 2013, retrieved 29 March 2013</ref>


In 2013, [[The Wall Street Journal]] awarded D'Aloisio "Innovator of the Year" in New York City for his work on Summly and at Yahoo.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-teen-nick-d8217aloisio-has-changed-the-way-we-read-1383785217|title=How Teen Nick D'Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read|last=Stevenson|first=Seth|date=11 November 2013|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=16 March 2019|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> He was included in [[Time (magazine)|Time]] magazine's Time 100 as one of the world's most influential teenagers.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=12 November 2013|title=Nick D'Aloisio, 18 &#124; The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013 &#124; TIME.com|url=http://time100.time.com/2013/11/12/the-16-most-influential-teens-of-2013/slide/nick-daloisio/|magazine=Time|accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref> He also appeared in the 30 Under 30, an annual list of top entrepreneurs by ''[[Forbes]],'' and appeared in GQ magazine's 100 Most Connected Men of 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/100-most-connected-men-2014|title=GQ and ei's 100 Most Connected Men 2014|last=GQ|website=British GQ|date=8 December 2014|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> D'Aloisio was placed No. 30 on the 2014 Silicon Valley 100 by [[Business Insider]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-silicon-valley-100-2014-2014-1|title=THE SILICON VALLEY 100: The Coolest People in Tech Right Now|last=D'Onfro|first=Megan Rose Dickey, Jillian|website=Business Insider|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> He won a [[Spirit of London Award]] in December 2012 as Entrepreneur of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/meet-nick-daloisio-the-17-year-old-entrepreneur-yahoo-just-made-a-millionaire|title=Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old entrepreneur Yahoo! just made a millionaire – Companies {{!}} siliconrepublic.com – Ireland's Technology News Service|last=Burke|first=Elaine|date=26 March 2013|website=Silicon Republic|language=en|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> In addition, he was placed No. 1 in London's [[Evening Standard]] Top 25 under 25 for 2013.<ref name=":1" /> D'Aloisio also received 2013's Entrepreneur of the Year by Spear's Wealth Management, as well as a Merton Business Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spearswms.com/news/winners-announced-of-spears-wealth-management-awards-2013#.VD-r4xaBV8E|title=Winners Announced of Spear's Wealth Management Awards 2013 – Spears|date=31 October 2013 |publisher=Spearswms.com|accessdate=16 October 2015}}</ref>
D'Aloisio was named a Top 1000 Influential Londoner by Evening Standard 2012, appeared in the 30 under 30 list for Forbes Magazine, and the Mail on Sunday Top 100 things to watch in 2013. D'Aloisio also won a Spirit of London Award in December 2012 as Entrepreneur of the Year.


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Automatic summarization]]
* [[News aggregator]]
* [[News aggregator]]
* [[Multi-document summarization]]
* [[Multi-document summarization]]
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.sphere.me/ Sphere.me]
* http://summly.com
* [http://www.quora.com/Nick-DAloisio Nick D'Aloisio] on [[Quora]]
* [http://many.at/nickdaloisio/ Nick D'Aloisio's profiles]


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Nick D'Aloisio
Nick D'Aloisio in his offices, 2021
Born
Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla

(1995-11-01) 1 November 1995 (age 28)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationKing's College School, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, philosopher, student (Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Known forSummly

Nicholas D'Aloisio (born 1 November 1995) is a British computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of Summly, a mobile app which automatically summarises news articles and other material, which was acquired by Yahoo for $30M, according to allthingsd.com, but the price wasn't officially disclosed.[1] D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16.[2][3] D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by Twitter in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from Index Ventures and Mike Moritz.[4][5][6] He is also a student at Oxford University, where he graduated from the BPhil in Philosophy in July 2021 and now is undertaking the PhD (DPhil) course.[7] D'Aloisio has had seven papers accepted for publication or revision & resubmission in peer-reviewed journals.[7]

Early life and education[edit]

D'Aloisio was born in Melbourne, Australia. Having spent some years there, D’Aloisio left Australia for the United Kingdom at the age of 7 with his lawyer mother and banker father.[8] When he was seven, they returned to London. D'Aloisio was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon, south west London.[9] In the summer of 2014, he took A-level examinations at King's College School, Wimbledon. From 2014, D'Aloisio studied his undergraduate degree in philosophy and computer science at Hertford College, Oxford University.[10] In 2019, he commenced the BPhil graduate programme in Philosophy at Oxford University, and then advanced onto the DPhil (PhD) course in 2021.[7]

Since 2017, D'Aloisio has published a number of academic papers in peer-reviewed journals.[11] One of them, titled "Imagery and Overflow: We See More Than We Report", was published in Philosophical Psychology[11][12] He presented a second paper at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.[13] A third paper was published in the philosophy journal Ratio, and three more papers were accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journals Philosophia, Disputatio and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.[14][15]

Career[edit]

Summly[edit]

In March 2011, D'Aloisio launched an iOS app named Trimit, which used an algorithm to condense text such as emails and blog posts into a summary of 1000, 500, or 140-character text.[16] With 100,000 downloads,[17] the app was featured as on the Apple App Store.[18] Shortly afterwards, Trimit attracted the attention of business magnate Li Ka-Shing, who provided 16-year-old D'Aloisio with US$300,000 in venture capital investment.[19][20] After gathering feedback, D'Aloisio re-designed the app and renamed it Summly in December 2011.[21]

Summly aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones,[19] with the initial version of Summly being downloaded by over 200,000 users.[22] He hired a team from Israel, including a scientist named Inderjeet Mani, who specialised in natural language processing, to improve the app.[23][24] With corporate support,[25] in November 2012, D'Aloisio received US$1 million in new venture funding from celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry, in addition to Li Ka-Shing.[26] In March 2013, D'Aloiso sold Summly to Yahoo! for approximately US$30 million, according to allthingsd.com, but price wasn't officially disclosed.[1][27] He joined Yahoo! as a product manager the same month.[28]

The Summly algorithm first decides whether a document is summarizable by using a classifier model that is trained on a dataset of summarizable documents and unsummarizable documents (such as works of fiction). Then, a scoring system is used to identity and prune uninformative and incoherent sentences until the summary drops below the word limit. The coherence score is obtained by assigning weights to the presence of features in the sentence. For short summaries, the informativeness score of a sentence is determined by language-independent features such as its position or length. For longer summaries, a support vector machine learns to detect sentences with the highest ROUGE-1 scores. For other summaries, a random walk is used to determine salient nodes in a graph (a la PageRank) where sentences are represented as nodes with exponentially decreasing weights for those that appear later.[29]

Yahoo News Digest[edit]

In January 2014, D'Aloisio announced the launch of Yahoo News Digest at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.[30] An evolution of Summly, Yahoo News Digest provides mobile users with a summary of important news of the day in the form of a twice-a-day digest.[31] The articles are automatically and manually curated, as well as summarised into key units of information, known as "Atoms", which include maps, infographics, quotes and Wikipedia extracts.[32] The Verge praised the app, stating, "Yahoo! News Digest is the boldest and most visually impressive app the company has released since Yahoo! Weather last year."[33] It was the winner of the 2014 Apple Design Award.[34] D'Aloisio resigned from Yahoo! in October 2015.

Sphere[edit]

In late 2015, D'Aloisio co-founded a new startup called Sphere Knowledge. Whilst yet to be made public, Sphere is said to be knowledge-sharing service where users can swap information via instant messaging.[6] As of March 2019, the Financial Times reports that the company has raised US$30 million.[6] In October 2021, multiple news outlets including TechCrunch, The Telegraph, The Times and BBC reported that Sphere had been acquired by Twitter, and that the majority of the 30-person team would be joining the company.[4][5][35][36]

Awards and recognition[edit]

D'Aloisio garnered media attention for being a young entrepreneur. He has been covered by major publications, including ReadWrite,[37] Business Insider,[38] Wired,[39] Forbes,[40][41] The Huffington Post[19] and TechCrunch.[42] D'Aloisio has also made numerous television appearances.[43]

In 2013, The Wall Street Journal awarded D'Aloisio "Innovator of the Year" in New York City for his work on Summly and at Yahoo.[44] He was included in Time magazine's Time 100 as one of the world's most influential teenagers.[45] He also appeared in the 30 Under 30, an annual list of top entrepreneurs by Forbes, and appeared in GQ magazine's 100 Most Connected Men of 2014.[46] D'Aloisio was placed No. 30 on the 2014 Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider.[47] He won a Spirit of London Award in December 2012 as Entrepreneur of the Year.[48] In addition, he was placed No. 1 in London's Evening Standard Top 25 under 25 for 2013.[20] D'Aloisio also received 2013's Entrepreneur of the Year by Spear's Wealth Management, as well as a Merton Business Award.[49]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Yahoo Paid 30 Million in Cash For 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time".
  2. ^ Rainey, Sarah (26 March 2013). "Nick D'Aloisio: 'It was a massive gamble but a good one'". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  3. ^ Lomas, Natasha (3 August 2010). "True Ventures Invests in 19 Year Old Entrepreneur Brian Wong". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
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  5. ^ a b "Twitter acquires group chat app Sphere". 21 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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  8. ^ Grubb, Ben (26 March 2013). "Teen's multimillion-dollar Yahoo payday before 18th birthday". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  9. ^ Frean, Alexandra (6 October 2017). "Summly founder Nick D'Aloisio raises £12m for new app". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  10. ^ Clark, Liat (23 September 2014). "Exclusive: Nick D'Aloisio to combine Oxford studies with Yahoo role (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  11. ^ a b "Nick D'Aloisio, Academic Profile".
  12. ^ d'Aloisio-Montilla, Nicholas (2017). "Imagery and overflow: We see more than we report". Philosophical Psychology. 30 (5): 545–570. doi:10.1080/09515089.2017.1298086. S2CID 151734484.
  13. ^ d&#39, Nick. "Two Seeming Successes of Introspection Workshop". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ d&#39, Nick (2017). "A Brief Argument For Consciousness Without Access". Ratio. 31 (2): 119.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  17. ^ Wakefield, Jane (28 December 2011). "Teenage app prodigy hits jackpot". Retrieved 16 March 2019.
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  20. ^ a b "London's top 25 under-25s: they're young and successful – deal with it". Evening Standard. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
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  23. ^ Stevenson, Seth (11 November 2013). "How Teen Nick D'Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read". The Wall Street Journal.
  24. ^ "What Does $30 Million Buy You?". The Wall Street Journal. 26 March 2013.
  25. ^ Bradshaw, Tim (8 November 2012). "The savvy network behind Summly". FT.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  26. ^ Lomas, Natasha (1 November 2012). "Backed With $1M in Fresh Funding, Summly's 17-Year-Old Founder Shows Off His App's New Look [TCTV". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
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  28. ^ Luckerson, Victor. "Q&A With the 17-Year-Old Who Sold an App to Yahoo for $30 Million". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  29. ^ US patent 10599721B2, Mani, Inderjeet; Ciurana, Eugenio & D'Aloisio-Montilla, Nicholas et al., "Method and apparatus for automatically summarizing the contents of electronic documents", published 2018-03-08, issued 2020-03-24 
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  49. ^ "Winners Announced of Spear's Wealth Management Awards 2013 – Spears". Spearswms.com. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2015.

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