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Tim Berners-Lee on semantic technologies

Tim Berners-Lee discusses the importance of "giving meaning to" / making sense of data. Fascinating as always. 

The W3C published new version of OWL 2

The W3C issued a new version of OWL 2, part of the semantic toolkit. It's quite important since OWL 2 allows people to represent knowledge domains. At Synergiums we're obviously following closely such events since they have direct bearing on both of our flagship technologies, SemSense and Vodis. And one of the things we're particularly interested to ensure is to provide for maximum flexibility in the use, reuse, merger and splitting of domains of knowledge transcribed in semantic systems for specific applications.

Great event

The event organized by Synergiums today is about to end and everything went really well, from the tests we set-up for participants, to the presentation, to the demos and to the informal contacts during lunch and coffee. Below are the slides used during the presentation. Videos with the demos are coming up soon (we still have some work to do to prepare them for YouTube).

Synergiums conference

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Ready for our first demo day

Tomorrow is a big day for Synergiums because we're running a presentation at Technoport to show the relevance of speech controlled services and to demo of what we can do. Given it's a first iteration of this kind of events we're a bit nervous and hopeful at the same time. The challenges we are tackling are to show our audience how to:

1. dynamically manage the interaction between human users and machines
2. make sense of what the human user needs by processing natural language without using keywords
3. identify the user's needs and match them to existing online services
4. contact relevant services and allow the human user to simply speak to activate those services in order to obtain content (e.g. finding a video and viewing it through a VoD service or identifying relevant content on a television electronic programming guide) or to execute actual transactions (e.g. buying tickets for a tourist attraction or booking a hotel room)
5. record and statistically process the usage data to gain insights into how people actually use services

More tomorrow, keeping our fingers crossed :)

Synergiums at innovation event in Luxembourg

Synergiums took part to Luxembourg's week of creativity and innovation and the company's CEO presented some of the company's breakthroughs. Below are his slides.

CarLink: transforming car traffic

Synergiums is very active in R&D projects. CarLink was a fascinating project for us, both because of its ambition and because of the host of partners from very different corners of Europe, Finland and Spain. We certainly enjoyed working with them during the project and are very proud of the award we received, not to mention how excited we are at how the results could be translated for business. But, we'd better let you watch the video.

The founder of Radar Networks on semantic tech

As part of our ongoing exploration and monitoring of the wonderful world of semantic technologies we're often coming across interesting content that we like to share. Here's a great interview of Nova Spivack (see also his public Twine and his profile on LinkedIn) by Robert Scoble. Spivack is the fascinating founder and CEO of Radar Networks, the maker of Twine. Enjoy!

New site for Synergiums

We're building our new site to start telling the full story of Synergiums as the company is now moving to the next stage of its development. Having spent quite some time and done a lot of work developing core semantic technologies in internal as well as public research projects, we are now bringing to market some exciting applications like vodisTV. So with this new site, we'll be communicating on products, partnerships, research project, interesting stuff we find in the world and on the day-to-day life of our team. Stay put!