Archive for 2011
Search as Big Brother, Molding What You See and Think
A recent TED presentation is by Eli Pariser. He is the author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You.” A new and very interesting book. His talk is a synopsis of how the Google personalization algorithms effect search results. Google results are influenced by your own search history and other online activity. Any system such as Amazon, Yahoo, Bing ebay shopping systems depend heavily on personalization to serve you results. Traditional databases do not use profiles (yet) but they are often based on Verity, Vivisimo, Autonomy, Fast and other mathematically based search software so they could and they do serve up different results whenever the vectors are reset – that is every time additional data is added to the system with updates or metadata enrichment.
Read MoreTaxonomy Used to Diagnose
The American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH) and the ASH Specialist Program Inc. has announced the approval of an official health care taxonomy code for Designated Specialists in Clinical Hypertension from the American Medical Association National Uniform Claims Committee.
Read MoreHIGHFLEET’s Latest Release Finds New Uses
HIGHFLEET has announced the release of the latest version of its eXtensible Knowledge Server (XKS) ontology-based deductive database. This new release professes to have the only advanced, scalable first order logic-based deductive database that continues to find new uses.
Read MoreStandards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven
Manually wading through unstructured, textual data archives to find documents to answer questions can be slow and expensive. New SAS Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits recently announced by SAS, improve the time to value from the automatic classification of unstructured, textual data and from text analytics efforts as a whole.
Read MoreLike It Or Not
Social media and privacy have never been friends. The advance of semantic technology has only made this more relevant. For example, Microsoft’s Bing search engine can now tell you what your friends “Like”. And some think that isn’t very nice.
Read MoreAutonomy’s Latest Purchase Maximizes Data
Autonomy plans to purchase certain assets of Iron Mountain Digital which, when combined with Autonomy’s operations, has the potential for building a very large data cloud.
Read MoreOntology Systems Goes Rogue
Ontology Systems, best known for their semantic search technology, has released Ontology 3. Previously known as OSS/CAD and now in its third generation, the new release focuses on the user experience.
Read MoreCanadian Government Embracing Social Media
The Canadian Government will combine Identity technologies with social media to enable their Open Government 2.0 strategy – Enterprise 2.0 – and it will be available to the public.
Read MoreIntelliChief Releases V3.2
IntelliChief has released the biggest enhancement to its paperless process management (PPM) software since the company and the product separated itself from Quadrant Software last year. IntelliChief version 3.2 has enhanced optical character recognition (OCR) functionality, new workflow capabilities, and improved archival features.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used to Improve Mobile Phone Experience
Researchers in Spain are promising a better mobile telephone user experience by applying semantic technology to customize the application related to user tastes and preferences, social relations, services and environment.
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