CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 August 2009
Company News
Imaginestics and the CAC Join Forces to Research Powerful New Search Technologies
Imaginestics, LLC has joined the National Science Foundation’s Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC), Arizona site, to collaborate on breakthrough research that will increase the power and performance of Imaginestics’ VizSeek shape search engine technology.
The Center for Autonomic Computing is a research center devoted to the development of methods, architectures, and technologies for computing systems or applications that implement autonomous behaviors, and it is funded by the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as CAC members from industry and government, and university matching funds. “Autonomous behaviors” are those that a computing system uses to adjust itself to changing conditions, allowing for minimal management while reducing cost and risk. Examples might include systems that protect themselves against attack or those that detect disruptions from hardware or software failure and recover automatically. According to Dr. Salim Hariri, director of the NSF CAC Arizona site, “the goal of the CAC is to advance research and development of autonomic computing through partnership with large and small companies such as Imaginestics, so that the advances we make today can have a real and tangible effect in the technologies used in industry tomorrow.”
Imaginestics’ VizSeek shape search technology is a powerful tool for users to search parts and components in often large and cumbersome databases, using visual rather than verbal criteria for searching. Recognizing that existing methods of data storage, search, and retrieval could be optimized in a new way, Imaginestics joined the CAC in early 2008 to collaborate on research in high-dimensional multi-media data structures that would dynamically change in structure, thereby speeding the search process and increasing the scale of the engine’s search power. Jamie Tan, co-founder and CTO of Imaginestics, predicts that, “this partnership will allow us to take a leap forward in developing new high-performance methods for robustly finding objects in images using 3D models and add significant muscle behind our carefully honed visual search technology, making it an invaluable tool in the engineering and manufacturing industries, as it fills a need currently unmet by today’s verbal search technologies.”
About VizSeek
VizSeek is the leading developer of shape-based search technology. The company’s mission is to connect the world’s industrial users through on-line communities of interest and providing a catalyst for identifying business opportunities. VizSeek solutions are currently used by top government agencies and industrial leaders. The privately held company is headquartered at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana. More information on VizSeek and its products is available at http://www.vizseek.com.
Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.
Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.
CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.