Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1999 09:41:10 -0500 (EST) From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gps Subject: Industry Briefs: MineSet to NT, Dragon Mining Audio, SAS award PC Week (February 22, 1999) reports that Silicon Graphics Inc. is readying an upgrade to its MineSet data mining software that includes a port to Windows NT and ODBC support. For full text see, http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391102,00.html -- Information Week, February 08, 1999, Issue: 720 reports on "Data Mining For Audio" -- Dragon Systems application that uses speech recognition to extract data from call-center tapes. Information week reports that Dragon's speech-recognition technology can convert audio tapes into text that can be indexed and searched. A user can type or speak a search request, such as "How many people used the word lavender when ordering clothes on Sunday?" The system provides a text response. Users can also listen to excerpts of taped conversations. For full text, go to (http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK19990208S0036) -- CARY, NC (February 12, 1999) - SAS Institute Inc., the market leader in integrated data warehousing and decision support, announced that the U.S. Army Center for Healthcare Education and Studies (CHES), SAS Institute, and Litton PRC have been selected as joint winners of DM Review magazine's 1998 World Class Solution Award for Data Warehousing. The award, given in the category of Business Intelligence (Data Mining & Visualization), is a symbol of excellence within the business-intelligence and data-warehousing industry. It reflects the most mission-critical segments of the market as determined by DM Review readers. For more information, see http://www.dmreview.com
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