Press Release
Turning Global Discovery Vision into Reality
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Feb. 17, 2006 -- Deep Web Technologies,
LLC (http://www.deepwebtech.com), a leading provider of
high-performance federated search technology software and
solutions, announces today that Abe Lederman, President/CTO,
is a featured speaker at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
Mr. Lederman is speaking at a symposium entitled "Global
Discovery on the Internet: A Grand Challenge."
Symposium Synopsis:
"The Internet's power is also its challenge - the
information may be there, somewhere, but how to find it? For
the scientist, this challenge takes many forms, but the
grandest is to know if someone has solved a critical problem
that is blocking progress, especially when the problem is
about cross-cutting methods like mathematics,
instrumentation, or basic theory. Meeting this grand
challenge is called "global discovery," which promises to
increase the pace of science by searching all scientific
communities at once for data, information, or methodological
advances."
Mr. Lederman's presentation follows the speeches of Dr.
Walter Warnick and Eleanor Frierson. Dr. Warnick, the
Director of the Department of Energy, Office of Scientific
and Technical Information, is the driving force in the quest
for Global Discovery. Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director of
the National Agricultural Library and Co-Chair of the
Science.gov Alliance, presents an overview of Science.gov
(http://www.science.gov).
Mr. Lederman describes the capabilities of
ResearchAssistant(TM), the state-of-the-art federated search
engine that powers Science.gov, providing one-stop access to
the output of most of the R&D of the Federal government.
Science.gov is sponsored by the Science.gov Alliance, a
collaborative effort of 12 Federal government agencies.
Mr. Lederman's talk covers technical challenges of turning
Global Discovery into reality. These challenges include
finding, cataloging, configuring and searching thousands of
data sources. More specifically, Mr. Lederman will describe
how the ResearchAssistant(TM), a scalable,
grid-computing-based federated search engine that employs a
sophisticated Search Conductor, multi-tier relevance ranking
and a Source Selection Optimizer can provide the technical
foundation for Global Discovery.
Abe has 25 years of software engineering experience. He was
a co-founder of Verity, a market leader in search engine
technology. At Los Alamos National Laboratory he developed a
number of the first web-based search and retrieval
applications. Abe went on to pioneer federated searching in
the Federal government in 1999. Realizing the enormous
potential for federated searching, he started Deep Web
Technologies (DWT) in 2002. Abe holds B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
About Deep Web Technologies:
Deep Web Technologies, based in Los Alamos, NM, is a leading
developer of software that mines, aggregates and ranks
content from difficult-to-access regions of the web, known
as the "deep web," containing the best scientific and
technical content. In addition to Science.gov, DWT's
technology powers major sites such as the E-Print Network
(http://www.osti.gov/eprints), and the Science Conferences
portal (http://www.osti.gov/ScienceConferences). In June
2005 DWT launched ScienceResearch.com
(http://www.scienceresearch.com), a free, publicly available
Internet web portal allowing access to numerous scientific
journals and public science databases.
Contact:
Latimer Epps
Director of Sales and Marketing
505-672-0007
lepps@deepwebtech.com
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