Connotate Co-Founder Boasts Prestigious Data Mining Award, Turning Theory into Long-Lasting Practice.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 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' CEO, 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.

As a leader in data mining, Connotate Technologies specializes in developing systems that convert the World Wide Web into a clean, organized, reliable, and repeatable source of information extraction. Connotate's Information Agent Suite(TM), which includes the Web Mining Server(TM) and the Information Agent Library(TM), can reformat and convert web pages into databases, spreadsheets, and emails using Information Agents. These Agents can keep a constant watch on important web sites, notifying a user or a database when new information is presented, and extracting this information for review. Connotate services customers in the financial, publishing, real estate, energy, and manufacturing segments for needs such as market data, competitive intelligence, market research, competitor and partner pricing and product alerts, and supply chain integration. Connotate's users, which include analysts, researchers, and executives, can benefit from the Information Agent Suite's ease of use, "no programming" approach to describing the information needed from a web page, and "user self-service" approach encouraging users to identify, configure, and schedule the information sources they need quickly and easily, without the need for technical training or technical support. Connotate is privately held with venture funding from the equity firm of Trautman-Wasserman, Inc. For more information, visit Connotate's web site at www.Connotate.com.