Tuesday, 5/22/2007
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Level: Case Study/Business

Integrated justice applications are using Semantic Services today to keep the public safe. This case study discusses multiple implementations of Semantic Services based applications that are delivering extremely cost effective, high value public safety solutions at the local, county and State level to over 5,000 users daily. The case study discusses how Semantic Services-based applications are:

• Implementing the first in the nation system to proactively identify and classify Sexual predators
• Streamlining the exchange of Judicial information, decreasing processing time and cost by over 60% with improved accuracy
• Introducing Semantic based investigation tools into criminal investigations to solve more crimes faster
• Providing holistic correlation of criminal trends, contributory factors and the ability to track the impact crime prevention initiatives.
• Automating a previously “unsolvable” problem while driving labor costs down by over 90% Presentation will focus on Semantics required to address the public safety challenges.

Alan brings more than 20 years of software development and technical management expertise to his role as Vice President of Product Development at Metatomix. He has played an integral role in the development of the company's advanced semantic technologies and holds patents associated with that work. Over the years Alan has contributed significantly to the development of advanced media technologies offered by both Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. He co-founded and was the President of Anyware Fast, a software consultancy. Anyware Fast was sold to Dimension X, the first Java startup, specializing in virtual reality and interactive multimedia authoring software. At Dimension X, Alan was the Director of Technology until the firm was acquired by Microsoft. As part of the Microsoft Office team, he led the development of Microsoft Vizact 2000, an interactive multimedia authoring product. Alan has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.