Autonomy Partners with NetChannel; Web-Enhanced Television Service to License Agentware i3 Products.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1997--Autonomy announced a partnership today with NetChannel, the personalized Web-enhanced television service. Autonomy's Agentware i3 products will be used to help NetChannel deliver Internet content that is personalized for each viewer, playing a key role in NetChannel's personalization strategy. "Autonomy's software will allow us to create a truly personalized Internet television Internet television (or Internet TV) is television distributed via the Internet. Overview In the past, television was only distributed by cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. experience for consumers," said Philip J. Monego, Sr., president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NetChannel. "NetChannel has built a service that uses the Internet as a resource, and Autonomy helps our viewers create their own online television experience with information that they care about." Autonomy's technology automatically organizes the unstructured content of the World Wide Web according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the changing interests of individual viewers. It learns from observing the type of information that is being accessed by a viewer and then searches for more material related to the original concept. As viewer preferences and interests change over time, Autonomy's intelligent software adapts to new concepts. "With Autonomy, NetChannel can automatically present viewers with focused Internet programming that will appeal to their individual tastes and interests," noted Dr. Michael Lynch Michael Lynch or Mike Lynch may mean or refer to:
Autonomy's products are based on technology developed by Neurodynamics, the world leader in intelligent pattern recognition software. Neurodynamics' products have been used for the past six years for large scale British defense and police applications. Agentware i3 NetChannel has integrated Autonomy's Agentware i3 Content Server(TM), Agentware i3 Daily Briefing(TM) and Agentware i3 User Profiling(TM) products into the NetChannel service. The Agentware i3 Content Server is Autonomy's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. and uses pattern matching 1. pattern matching - A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. , statistical probability
"Statistical probability" is a term sometimes used informally as a synonym for frequency probability, which identifies probability with relative frequency over a long series of events or the theorems, and neural network principles to analyze the unstructured data found on the World Wide Web or any online archives. The software identifies key concepts in material that is accessed by a viewer along with the terms most closely associated with the concepts. The software abstracts then are used to identify other material containing the concepts. By partnering with Autonomy and implementing its software, NetChannel will be able to provide its viewers with personalized, continuously updated, live online data and correlated existing information already present on the Web. As a viewer continues to use a NetChannel agent, it will become increasingly effective at identifying and automatically presenting data that is of interest only to that specific viewer. About Autonomy Autonomy was founded in March 1996, by Dr. Michael Lynch, a world-renowned expert in the field of adaptive pattern recognition, and remains a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . Autonomy is headquartered in Palo Alto, with additional offices in Roseland, N.J., and Cambridge, England. Autonomy maintains a World Wide Web site at http://www.agentware.com . About NetChannel NetChannel's award-winning service personalizes, enhances and expands the television experience by using the Internet as a resource to deliver programming, communications and commerce. NetChannel's features include e-mail access, a comprehensive localized Electronic Program Guide, electronic commerce and a service that will facilitate contact among viewers with similar interests. Founded in May 1996, the company employs a staff of 125, with offices in South San Francisco South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Atlanta and London. For more information please see NetChannel's Web site at http://www.netchannel.net . NetChannel is a trademark of NetChannel Inc. CONTACT: Autonomy Inc., Palo Alto Elaine Johnson, 415/463-1569 or Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Worldwide Marivi Lerdo-de-Tejada, John Satterfield or David Parkinson, 415/968-4033 |
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