Semio's Vogel to Keynote National Knowledge Technologies Conference.

Business Editors

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2002

Dr. Claude Vogel, founder and chief technology officer for Semio Corporation, will deliver a keynote address at the Knowledge Technologies 2002 Conference sponsored by IDEAlliance, which runs from March 10 - 13 in Seattle, Wash. Dr. James D. Mason of the Y-12 National Security Complex and this year's conference chair made the announcement. The theme for this year's conference is "Bridging Knowledge Communities."

Dr. Vogel is an international authority in cognitive anthropology. The title of his talk is "Fasten Your Taxonomies: Hold On For the Classification Revolution." Semio is a leading provider of content categorization and indexing technology used in portals, document management systems and knowledge management applications. Semio's customers include such firms as AT&T, Stanford HighWire Press, Eli Lilly and branches of the government including the U.S. Postal Service, the Defense Department and the intelligence community.

Dr. Vogel holds Ph.D. degrees in Social Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. He is former director of the Computational Semiotics Laboratory at the University Leonardo de Vinci in Paris and an associate professor of computational semiotics at the University of Montreal.

He continues to conduct research projects in his field and has published more than 70 pieces, including nine books on such subjects as software engineering, cognitive design, social organizations and semiotics.

Semio is a venture-backed, privately held corporation with headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. and offices in the United Kingdom and a worldwide distribution system. For more information visit www.semio.com or send email to: [e-mail]. For more information on the Technologies Conference 2002, visit www.knowledgetechnologies.net.