Posts by Stefan Wess

• Can Computers Cook? Yes They Can!

  August 31st, 2009 • Author: Stefan Wess • No Comments

  Tags: Empolis, Information Access, Search, Semantic, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

  We are Champions – World Champions to be precise. Not in an athletics discipline but in computer cooking. This year, the 2nd International Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) took place in Seattle, Washington at the annual Case-Based Reasoning Conference. And the winner is: CookIIS. CookIIS is an intelligent Computer Cooking application built on top of  Empolis’ Information Access Suite [...]

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• Yes, We Do Open Source!

  August 23rd, 2009 • Author: Stefan Wess • No Comments

  Tags: Open Source, Product Release, Semantic, Theseus

  Some people probably noticed that we are engaged in an Open Source (OS) project calledSMILA: SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture. Although, the name tells its own tale it does not tell why and how we arrived at the decision to do Open Source. The latter tale is an opportunity to share some bits of history. In [...]

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• What is Theseus?

  August 4th, 2009 • Author: Stefan Wess • No Comments

  Tags: Empolis, Information Access, Theseus, Web 2.0

  Anybody out there who receives Google News Alerts? Ok, I do too. Sunday, the following one popped up in my Mailbox: Myths meet modern music, Wilkes Barre Times-Leader – Wilkes Barre, PA,USA, ‘Ancient Greek Idol’ actors include Stephen Bauder as Theseus, Meg Halcovage as Persephone, Violet Race as Arachne and Dante Green as King Midas….. It [...]

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• Empolis Executive Forum 2009

  July 17th, 2009 • Author: Stefan Wess • No Comments

  Tags: E-Service, Empolis, Semantic, Web 2.0

  This year, Empolis arranged its 6th Executive Forum in Berlin, Germany. An event actually worth writing home about. 200 professionals and executives from business, research and public authorities took the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas on handling unstructured information. The two days were themed “All data under control? Information management in the age of [...]

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