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DAEDALUS, S.A. is an IT company started in year 1998 as a spin-off of UPM. The core competencies of DAEDALUS are:
- Language Technologies: DAEDALUS offers products for multilingual, multimedia, fuzzy and semantic search, automatic information extraction, annotation, classification and summarization, high quality spell, grammar and style checking of text, automatic translation for search applications, etc.
- Semantic Web Technologies: DAEDALUS develops products and services based in W3C standards: web services (SOAP), semantic web (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), business rules (RIF), etc.
- Business Intelligence: DAEDALUS has experience in the areas of modelling, simulation, optimisation, planning and scheduling of complex systems. In particular, DAEDALUS integrates data mining solutions in different industries.
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from twenty European countries are members of ERCIM.
The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint endeavour between the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. The goal of WSRI is to facilitate and produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to inform the future design and use of the World Wide Web. It brings together academics, scientists, sociologists, entrepreneurs and decision-makers from around the world.
WSRI has five Directors: Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Professor at MIT and Professor at the University of Southampton; Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and President of the Association for Computing Machinery; Jim Hendler, Professor and Assistant Dean for IT at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton; and Daniel J. Weitzner, Director of the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group and Technology and Society Policy Director at the World Wide Web Consortium.
Contact WSRI: info@webscience.org
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