New Management Team at Sprylogics

Sprylogics has a new Chief Executive Officer after Michael Frank stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company in order to pursue other interests. Marvin Igelman has accepted the role. Two additional members have been added to the management team – Brad Marks and Bhavuk Kaul have joined as the VP of Product Development and VP of Product Marketing, respectively.

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Natural Language Processing Only Goes So Far

The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.

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Traveling Semantically

We often talk about how semantic technology has changed the IT world, the search world, and even the healthcare world, but how has it affected the retail world of travel? The product of travel is about price, time and place; not much different than buying seasonal produce. Shopping the experience means using customer benefits, words, and concepts to wrap the travel product in advance – to anticipate customer needs.

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New Academic Publishing Platform Being Built

Publishing Technology has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.

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US Army & AI

Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army’s Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.

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New Start-Up Using Semantic Search

Locu is a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers that plan to create the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data. Their goal is that this data source will increase the efficiency of local search.

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Is Semantic Search Trendy?

Semantic search and extraction of data from natural language and pictures are continuing to increase in popularity. As evidence of that trend, Hewlett-Packard recently confirmed rumors that it would acquire Autonomy, a semantic technology company. Media Post’s Search Blog brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Semantic Search And Raw Data On Rise.”…

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What Drives Web 3.0?

Some think the next generation of the Internet, i.e. Web 3.0, has not progressed as fast as originally predicted. Is this delay caused by lack of technology or lack of business ventures? I think we can all agree that business models and marketing within the Web 3.0 environment will need snazzy, dramatic changes to be received by the new culture and technology. The openness of the web and the dynamic semantic search capabilities have changed the landscape, and expectations.

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Rearden Commerce Launches Deem

Rearden Commerce will be combining the company’s business, consumer and merchant applications onto one smart commerce platform – Deem™. This move will connect buyers and sellers by bringing together new analytics and semantic data tagging technology.

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