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Vivisimo Gets NSF Data Contract For Homeland Security
Pittsburgh - June 12, 2003 Vivisimo, Inc., a global provider of advanced document clustering and content integration software, announced it has recently been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to develop additional capabilities for homeland security and intelligence gathering. The value of the Supplemental and Phase IIB grants is $350,000, which brings Vivisimo's total SBIR grant funds to more than $960,000. "With this grant we will enhance and modify our on-the-fly document clustering products to help intelligence analysts easily recognize patterns and identify trends from large amounts of unstructured data in many different languages," said Raul Valdes-Perez, President, Vivisimo. "Recent meetings with various federal agencies and new corporate and government clients have revealed excellent commercial and patriotic opportunities for our products. We look forward to introducing this new functionality for the intelligence community." Vivisimo is best known for its innovative document clustering and meta- search products that it showcases on the award-winning site, vivisimo.com. This site integrates search results from several leading search engines and automatically integrates and organizes the results. It was recently called a cool alternative to Google in the June 2003 issue of PCWorld Magazine. According to the article "Vivisimo breaks down search results into category clusters, enabling users to quickly choose the most valuable URLs. For example, if you search on 'scuba' Vivisimo builds a left pane with subcategories such as magazines, equipment, and islands." NSF's SBIR program funds high-risk, high-payback innovations that are tied to NSF's mission of advancements in science, engineering and education. Vivisimo was chosen to receive these highly competitive grants based on the technical merit of its research and development, as well as its technology impact and commercial potential. Each year, NSF receives about 30,000 requests for funding. Vivisimo, Inc. provides intelligent software that helps enterprises to organize information from anywhere, any time, in any language. Its breakthrough clustering and meta-search products retrieve textual information from one or multiple sources and automatically organize the combined results on the fly into meaningful folders. This dynamic approach allows for rapid integration and categorization of content and significantly improves end-user access to relevant information. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Vivisimo was founded by research computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and has been funded by grants from the NSF's SBIR program and investments by Innovation Works. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Vivisimo SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express The Long War - Doctrine and Application
Protein Engineered To Detect Nerve Gas
Durham NC (SPX) Jun 04, 2004Duke University Medical Center biochemists have used computational design to engineer and construct a protein that could sense the nerve agent soman. They said their achievement constitutes a proof-of principle that such engineered proteins can be made to detect nerve agents such as sarin and other toxic substances. |
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