Vertical Search Works (VSW) utilizes both human and machine intelligence to reach their objectives for advertisers, agencies, and publishers. VSW's Security Integrity Process (SIP) can seriously reduce the risk of ad fraud and malware.
Military intelligence is teaming up with the science and experts of ontology to understand the challenges and solutions for storing big data. An April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo (UB) will explore this big data conundrum, as well as related topics.
It is no secret that Yahoo has purchased the microblogging site, Tumblr. However, it seems confusing to some as to why a small player in the world of search (and getting smaller), invested over a billion dollars in something that has no solid business model. The answer is semantics.
Three more impressive names have been added to the roster for the BLN Internet of Things Forum 2013 (BLN IoT13) scheduled for June 27, 2013. Dr. John Davies, Head of Semantic Technology at BT, Stan Boland, CEO of Neul, and lastly Cees Link, CEO of GreenPeak Technologies.
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search is the evaluation of enterprise search software. A group of analyst evaluate different providers based on criteria such as market penetration, ingenuity, and strength of implementation. Those being evaluated are then placed in one of four categories: Challengers, Leaders, Visionaries, and Niche Players. Mindbreeze was one of those being evaluated and they were categorized as "challengers".
Algebraix Data Corporation has launched an automated implementation of Schema.org. Algebrize is a cost-effective, W3C compliant Software as a Service (SaaS). Website owners can realize increased traffic and conversion rates with semantic technology at work.
The geniuses at the Personal Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University are working to humanize the movements and behavior of a personal-assistant robot. They want their robot to learn to recognize objects all by itself, as "naturally" as humans. Semantic Web brought this news to our attention in their article, "New Robot Has Semantic Learning Capabilities."
This second robot-related story is right out of Star Trek and seems way too fictional to be true, but there are folks working on how to make an android that would look, talk, and respond like the character Dick from the 1982 novel, “We Can Build You.”
This interesting use, or not, of semantic technology caught my attention. Sometimes the accuracy of semantic analysis is in question and the topic in this specific situation could create even more suspicion. The students and professors at Humboldt State University avoided that by reading each of the 150,000 geo-coded tweets to produce a map revealing geographic differences in hate speech regarding, homophobia, racism, and specially-challenged topics.