Melody Smith

Awards for Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2013

Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google’s concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.

Ontologies Ensure Results

By Melody Smith | July 5, 2013

Attivio recently released Version 3.5 of Active Intelligence Engine (AIE). This recent version features a new Ontology Module and event-driven visualization capabilities that allow analysts to monitor the status of larger, multi-node systems.

Speed is a Luxury

By Melody Smith | July 4, 2013

When you are dealing with data measured in terabytes and petabytes, it is difficult to imagine how you manage such a volume. This size of data has its own ecosystem. Signal Online brought this interesting information our direction in their article, “Dealing with Big Data Takes an Ecosystem.”

The Security of Your Data

By Melody Smith | July 4, 2013

Confidentiality of data is always a concern. With the prevalence of the web, it only becomes more of a challenge to keep your data secure. Recently in Australia, this topic was addressed in parliament after an inquiry into why hundreds of highly sensitive Fitzgerald inquiry documents, including those detailing historic investigations into some high-profile Queenslanders, had been accidentally made available to the public. In addition, thousands of others had been inadvertently shredded.

Varonis Expands Capabilities

By Melody Smith | July 3, 2013

Varonis Systems has announced full compatibility with NetApp clustered Data ONTAP 8.2. This expands their range of capabilities in accessibility, governance, and retention to NetApp storage systems.

Professor Recognized for Semantic Contribution

By Melody Smith | July 3, 2013

Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.

New Acquisition Adds Advantage

By Melody Smith | July 2, 2013

Adobe Systems has acquired Neolane, a software platform for managing digital marketing campaigns.

Integrated Management Solutions

By Melody Smith | July 2, 2013

Triveni Digital has released their latest generation of metadata generation platform, GuideBuilder(R) 5. This is the fifth-generation of this technology that delivers key usability and performance. They are demonstrating GuideBuilder 5 for the first time this week at the 2013 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show in Las Vegas. This interesting information was found on TV Technology in their article, “Triveni Digital Announces Next-Generation GuideBuilder(R) 5 Metadata System.”

Marjorie M.K. Hlava’s Name Entered Into Congressional Record

By Melody Smith | July 1, 2013

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President and Chairman of Access Innovations, Inc., has been entered into the Congressional Record by New Mexico Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Managing Data

By Melody Smith | July 1, 2013

Managing data in a content management system presents its own set of challenges. Entering the data is easy. Storing the data is done efficiently. However, finding the data with ease and obvious searches does not always happen with ease. Collaboration between data based on metatagging and indexing is essential to improve this process.