Miðeind
Vilhjalmur (Villi) Thorsteinsson is the CEO of Miðeind ehf., a software development company and an investment vehicle. Vilhjalmur (Villi) is also the owner and operator of Netskrafl.is, a crossword game website for the Icelandic language. In addition, Vilhjalmur (Villi) has held various board positions in companies such as Virðing, Kjarninn miðlar, DataMarket, CCP Games, and Gogogic. Vilhjalmur has also served as the Treasurer of the Social Democratic Alliance and as the Chairman of the Steering Committee on an Energy Policy for Iceland. Vilhjalmur (Villi) has a degree in Visual Arts and Science/Physics.
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Miðeind
Miðeind is a privately owned startup company based in Reykjavík, Iceland, specializing in Language Technology (LT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for the Icelandic language. The company's mission is to enable Icelandic businesses and the public to benefit from the rapid global progress now happening in the fields of Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to "traditional" LT tools, Miðeind is implementing AI-based services for Icelandic, such as text summarization and question answering. Our products include our voice assistant, Embla, who can answer various questions in Icelandic, a one of its kind spelling and grammar checker for Icelandic (Yfirlestur), and a translation engine that provides machine translations between English and Icelandic.