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Connotate Co-Founder Boasts Prestigious Data Mining Award,
Turning Theory into Long-Lasting Practice
New Brunswick, NJ — October 27, 2003 - As the recent recipient of the highly coveted, ACM SIGMOD Test of Time award, Co-Founder of New Jersey-based, Connotate Technologies, a leader in Web mining solutions, further distinguishes himself as a significant innovator among his peers. Tomasz Imielinski received the award for the principles espoused in his paper, "Data Mining Association Rules." Issued at the Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) annual conference in San Diego in June, the award, which honors data management research with the most impact over the past 10 years, recognizes Imielinski for the various methods he introduced. These methods paved the way for leading edge companies like bookseller Amazon.com. to build associations among customers' buying patterns to better recommend books and other merchandise.
The honor follows another award Imielinski received less than a year ago for his 1992 paper on Querying in Highly Mobile Distributed Environments," written with Badri R. Nath, Rutger's computer science professor. Called the Ten Year Best Paper award and issued at the 2002 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) in Hong Kong, it presents solutions for data management problems in the early stages of the mobile computing field. The methods it presents relating to ambulances, trucks and such, and a wide range of wireless networks set the stage for serious work in mobile databases.
"These awards demonstrate a combination of practical staying power and futuristic thinking, which have captured the imagination of the computer industry in turning technical concepts into major business value," says Connotate Technologies' Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Molloy. "We join these societies in congratulating him, and are delighted that this same spirit of foresight is evident today in the technical principles he continues to establish for the company."
As Director of Rutger's Division of Information and Computer Science, Tomasz Imielinski formed Connotate Technologies in the year 2000 with fellow Rutgers professor, Donald Smith and alumni, Vincent Sgro who serves as Chief Technology Officer. Imielinski developed the company for the purpose of turning academic principles of Web data mining and artificial intelligence into practical and useful business solutions. Imielinski celebrates his 20th year at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and his seventh as chair of the computer science department, which became part of Rutger's division of information and computer sciences in 2001
About Connotate Technologies, Inc.
Connotate is changing the way people and organizations use the web.
Connotate’s premium solution goes far beyond search to allow users to create personalized, actionable insights and intelligence from the Web. Its personalizable machine-intelligent Agents can do anything a human can do to monitor, mine, analyze, and deliver high value content. Agents operate on a fully-automated, 24 x 7 basis. Connotate’s Information Agent Suite™ is a robust and scalable platform; Agents are created using an intuitive GUI that supports fast and easy configuration by end-users without programming experience and content is delivered over any number of media, including XML, RSS, email, text messaging, and direct feeds to SQL and Excel databases.
Connotate’s clients include many of the largest global publishers and online media companies; major hedge funds and financial services firms; pharmaceutical, energy and internet companies; and federal and state government agencies. Connotate has been named one of the "100 Firms That Matter" in Knowledge Management by KMWorld for the third consecutive year.
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