Convera Multimedia Search Technology Powers Honeywell's National Defense Archive.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Convera RetrievalWare(R) and Visual RetrievalWare Play Key Roles in Large Scale Digital Asset Management System Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) today announced that Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T), a business unit of Honeywell International (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HON), has selected Convera to supply intelligent search technology for its digital asset management system. Honeywell FM&T has licensed Convera RetrievalWare(R) and Convera Visual RetrievalWare as the core technologies for a dynamic U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) archive of photographs, x-ray images, weapons materials standards and other information. As the management and operating contractor for the DOE's Kansas City Plant The Kansas City Plant is National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies. The facility is part of the larger Bannister Federal Complex. , Honeywell manufactures sophisticated electronic, manufacturing and engineered material components for national defense systems. Convera RetrievalWare currently powers the search functionality for a database of over 10,000 weapons materials standards documents. Each material used in weapons construction has well-defined specifications for its use. Using the RetrievalWare-powered system, weapons engineers can quickly and easily find information critical to the development of weapons, replacing an inefficient paper-based system. RetrievalWare also is used to search across an archive of over 400,000 pages of accounting information, records of retirement and other information. Building on its use of RetrievalWare, Honeywell also has licensed Convera Visual RetrievalWare to allow the addition of images to the digital asset management system. A five-year legacy inventory of over 13,000 hi-resolution photographs of the people, weapons and facilities of Honeywell has been added to the database. Honeywell and Department of Energy employees are able to retrieve these images, saved as jpeg files, using either keywords or searches based on image content. Honeywell also plans to use Visual RetrievalWare to index and search across an archive of over one million product-related x-ray images. Each product manufactured by Honeywell has been x-rayed, resulting in a five tractor-trailer load archive of images. Among Convera's other government customers are the Air Force Research Lab, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. , the Food and Drug Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Joints Chiefs of Staff, the Justice Technology Information Network, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases infectious diseases: see communicable diseases. , the Naval Research Lab, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. , Sandia National Labs, the Social Security Administration, the US Army, US Department of Justice, US Department of State and US Geological Survey The term geological survey can be used to describe both the conduct of a survey for geological purposes and an institution holding geological information. A geological survey . About Honeywell FM&T Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) is a prime contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As the management and operating contractor for the DOE's Kansas City Plant, FM&T manufactures sophisticated electronic, manufacturing and engineered material components for national defense systems. Honeywell supports nearly 40 technically demanding product families and 90 advanced technologies, including failure analysis, machining, optics, laminates, and software engineering. Much of this technology is shared with private industry through Honeywell's industrial partnership program. Honeywell is recognized as an industry leader in science-based manufacturing. At the center of this program is the Heartland Supercomputer, the largest and fastest computer at any manufacturing facility in North America. The Kansas City facility also has one of the largest flexible manufacturing systems in the United States. Honeywell FM&T employs about 3,000 people in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. and approximately 300 at its facilities in Albuquerque and Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning "The Cottonwoods") is an unincorporated townsite in Los Alamos County, New Mexico. The population of the townsite alone was 11,909 at the 2000 census. The townsite or "the hill" is one part of town while White Rock is also part of the town. . About Convera Visual RetrievalWare Convera Visual RetrievalWare helps people find what they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. based on images rather than words. Leveraging the power of Convera's Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (TM)), Visual RetrievalWare is the first comprehensive application development software to automatically index and retrieve visual data. Every aspect of the visual data is "learned" by the system based on shape, color and texture and other characteristics, and is then reduced to a searchable index where users can search by image content or metadata. About Convera RetrievalWare Convera RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate Intranets and extranets. Convera RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , documents, relational database tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. About Convera Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of content management solutions that unlock the value of digital content. Convera's advanced technologies, products, services and solutions empower content owners to extract value from their high-worth digital content--text, images and video--over the Internet, intranets, set top boxes and wireless devices. Convera serves nearly 700 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. Convera customers and partners include ABC News, BG Technology, British Telecom, chicagotribune.com, CSC, Digital Island, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, latimes.com, Loudeye, Microsoft, the National Basketball Association National Basketball Association (NBA) U.S. professional basketball league. It was formed in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (1946). , NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies, QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , United Airlines, Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Online and The World Bank. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. The Convera logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera Corporation(TM), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(R), WebExpress(TM) and their respective logos. This release contains comments about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans and prospects as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions, continued success in technological advances, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Excalibur's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. |
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