Watson: Fan or Foe?
Months after the event, experts continue to ponder how and why Watson was able to trump two human competitors on the television game show, Jeopardy. They also muse on the attention this event has brought back to IBM.
June 2011
uniFlow V5 Offers New Functions
By Melody Smith|June 1st, 20112011-06-01T10:41:19-04:00
Panabiz International Limited has introduced the latest Canon uniFlow Version 5 software into the market. This new software claims to provide greater efficiency to copying, scanning, printing, and minimizing waste – therefore reducing costs.
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Google and Bing Back At It
By Melody Smith|June 1st, 20112011-06-01T10:40:23-04:00
Only a few months after accusing Microsoft’s Bing of copying their search results, Google was found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
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May 2011
Digital Library Smackdown
By Melody Smith|May 31st, 20112011-05-31T12:03:50-04:00
The Digital Public Library of America initiative has created a lively debate on the DPLA's discussion listserv about how any such institution should be constituted. David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryCity.org and founder of TeleRead, has been advocating for well-stocked national digital libraries for many years and is an active participant on the listserv.
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The Age of the New Portal
By Melody Smith|May 31st, 20112011-05-31T12:02:23-04:00
Not so long ago, every organization wanted a portal to keep up with The Jones, or the Microsofts, as the case may be. Because of this, the quality of portals went downhill as did their promise results. What you are left with are organizations struggling to provide appropriate access to portlets and organizations with poor taxonomy and metadata practices importing its content only to find illegible titles and search indexes.
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MetaVis Works to Improve Findability
By Melody Smith|May 31st, 20112011-05-31T11:59:54-04:00
MetaVis Technologies has announced the availability of MetaVis Information Manager for SharePoint 2010, which enables users to bulk import, copy and classify content directly from the SharePoint user interface.
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Search as Big Brother, Molding What You See and Think
By Melody Smith|May 30th, 20112011-05-30T16:34:43-04:00
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.
Taxonomy Used to Diagnose
By Melody Smith|May 30th, 20112011-05-30T16:20:57-04:00
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.
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HIGHFLEET’s Latest Release Finds New Uses
By Melody Smith|May 30th, 20112011-05-30T16:19:25-04:00
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.
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Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven
By Melody Smith|May 27th, 20112011-05-27T11:50:34-04:00
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.
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