This afternoon, I put aside an hour from yet another hectic day to read Dr. Walter Warnick’s article, “Federated Search as a Transformational Technology Enabling Knowledge Discovery: the Role of WorldWideScience.org.” This article by Dr. Warnick–or Walt to me–presents a wonderful overview of OSTI’s mission dating all the way back to 1947. OSTI (Department of Energy [...]
Last night, I treated myself … no, I indulged myself … to a 30 minute hot tub under the stars. Alone, in my backyard, I stood looking up at the moon, and I was really struck by the contrast sitting in front of me: The moon, sitting motionless above me and my hot tub, travels [...]
By now most of us are pretty familiar with the “information overload” problem parodied in Bing’s current advertising campaign. In case you’re not, information overload happens when you naively use a popular search engine expecting to find some specific information, like the real-world fuel economy of a used car you’re thinking of buying, and some [...]
UPDATE: Due to weather restrictions, Abe has delayed his trip to the week of March 8th. Please let us know if you are interested in meeting with him during his visit. Abe Lederman, Deep Web Technologies’ president, will be visiting the D.C. area next week from Monday the 8th through Thursday the 11th. Along with [...]
I liked reading the DaVinci code, Dan Brown’s fictional mystery novel, so thought I’d give his newest bestseller a try. The Lost Symbol deals with codes and puzzles as you’d expect, but much to my surprise one of the main characters in the book, Katherine Solomon, asks Trish Dunne, a “metasystems” programmer, to do a [...]
A couple of months ago I was having a conversation with my brother Sol, main author of the Federated Search Blog, and suggested that he do some research and see if he could determine when the term federated search was first used and write a blog post on it. Well, so far Sol hasn’t taken [...]
Prior to joining Deep Web Technologies, I managed to make a small name for myself in the web hosting and ISP (Internet Service Provider) industry. Aside from helping grow a very successful company in that industry, I nurtured a small but consistent consulting practice. As a consequence, I am (from time-to-time) invited to speak and [...]
Adam Trujillo worked with Deep Web Technologies for only a few summer months this year as an intern, but is leaving to attend the University of New Mexico as a freshman this fall. We asked him what he thought of his job at Deep Web Technologies and his answer was so good, we wanted to [...]
