Forbes ran a nice piece on In-Q-Tel. The article is worth reading in its entirety. Here is a link: Startups Backed By The CIA. The In-Q-Tel mission is to identify, adapt and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community, including the Department of Homeland Security. As a teaser till you get around to the article, here is a list of companies in the order … [Read more...]
Endeca Government Summit: Important context on a key mission area
November 19, 2010 By
The Endeca Government Summit was yesterday. The agenda included some fantastic presentations from customers who have used Endeca to address issues requiring incredible scale (billions of records) and incredible scope (including the need to discover meaning in data in milliseconds) and human-focused interfaces (including, in every solution I saw, an ability to enable humans to interact with data in ways that search never enables). One of my … [Read more...]