[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Event: Next-Generation Search Systems Lecture Series

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at rgs.uci.edu
Wed Apr 5 16:00:15 PDT 2006


Event:                           Four-Part Lecture Series:
Next-Generation Search Systems

 

Title:                             Lecture No. 1- The Web You Trust: The
Next Generation of Vertical Search

 

Speakers:                     Claude Vogel and Paul Gardner, Convera 

                                    Convera is a leading provider of
search technologies to commercial enterprises and government agencies.

 

Time:                            9:30 a.m.

 

Date:                            Wednesday, April 12, 2006

 

Location:                       Calit2 Building, Room 3008, UC Irvine

 

Abstract:                       Professional search, whether it is
research, analysis or open discovery, is an important trend of Web
search. Current search engines provide horizontal access to multiple
sources, but the burden of sorting out these sources remains a concern.
Transforming the Web into an "authoritative Web" is an interesting way
to solve these issues: Semantic indexing provides a semantic signature
for Web documents, which can be verticalized to fit with a specific
professional perspective. Additional mining tools leverage this semantic
added value and provide an even more rewarding search experience.  Dr.
Claude Vogel, CTO of Convera, will explain how this new search
technology works, and Paul Gardner, who supervised most of the technical
solution, will present the architecture and the key innovations.

 

Bio:                              Claude Vogel is Convera's chief
technology officer. In this role, he is broadening the core indexing,
categorization and dynamic classification capabilities of Convera's
search, retrieval and categorization technology. Prior to joining
Convera, Vogel was the founder and former chief technology officer of
Semio Corp. He has a background in anthropology, semiotics and
artificial intelligence, and has published more than 70 pieces,
including nine books on the subjects of software engineering, cognitive
design, social organizations and semiotics.

 

Paul Gardner has a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the
University of Rochester. He has spent the past 19 years producing
commercial software for visual pattern recognition and search, and has
more recently overseen the design of Convera's Excalibur web search
engine and developed its distributed filesystem and large-scale crawler.

 

Additional Information:    Faculty sponsor: Ramesh Jain


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