Semantic Web Creator Honored
Two members of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute science faculty have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Read MoreNew Kid on the Block
There are many competitors in the world of enterprise search. Add one more. Q-Sensei has an upgraded search platform tailored to cash in on big data and a new office in New York.
Read MoreReplacing Data Warehouses
Pneuron Corporation has released the Pneuron Platform. This new software suite distributes key applications, analysis, models, rules or functions directly to source systems where data resides.
Read MoreOptimizing Semantic Search
If you haven’t applied for a job in the past few years, things have changed – significantly. Almost everyone requires that you apply online, which is fine by me. I am all about online. However, I recently learned that this reliance on computers extends to scan resumes for key words using “proprietary algorithms”, “advanced semantic search”, “computational linguistics”, and “statistical inference.”
Read MoreNew Proposed Deadline for ICD-10 Transition
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finally announced a proposed rule to postpone the compliance date for ICD-10 by one year to Oct. 1, 2014.
Read MoreDoes Email Have an Expiration Date?
As technology advances and social media becomes even more prevalent in our day-to-day lives, where does that leave email? There are many people I know who say they don’t use stand alone email for anything. They rely completely on Facebook to communicate with friends, family and business associates. Personally, I do find myself having more conversations on the social media guru’s site than using my personal email account. The relationships are different and therefore the communication is different. So in the battle of social vs. email, who will win? And what will be the results of that win?
Read MoreMovie Indexing Application Released
A new application has been released that can serve as your own personal video librarian. Move Explorer by Anlarke scans the files and adds data from both IMDb and MOVIEmeter. With titles, descriptions, artwork, and even user ratings, this makes a very manageable library for the movie buff.
Read MoreFoodie Search Engine
Vertical Search Works has launched their new VS4Food search offering for publishers. This vertical search engine resides on a publisher’s site where users can enter a query using a toolbar, and the search engine returns results from both the publisher and from other web sites relevant to the query.
Read MoreCataloging with SharePoint
Concept Searching has released conceptClassifier for SharePoint for Perkins+Will, an integrated design firm. Providing a solution for their cataloging challenge, they provided a way to organize the information stored on its intranet. They previously had multiple taxonomies. In the end, they had a logical collection of managed metadata that allowed the information to be found in a comprehensive way.
Read MoreMetadata Limitations
OpenSFS is a non-profit organization committed to maintaining the Lustre file system as a viable, open technology for the entire high performance computing (HPC) community. Three Lustre vendors were asked about the future of this open source file system.
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