Dr. Sharon Flank
Principal, DataStrategy LLC
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Sharon Flank, Ph.D., is the Principal at DataStrategy LLC, a technology consulting firm. She specializes in patent strategy, competitive analysis and product development. Previously, she was the Chief Technology Officer at eMotion, Inc and managed product engineering and R&D for digital media management at SRA International. Dr. Flank specializes in data-rich applications, enterprise search, natural language processing, media management, text understanding, machine translation, visualization, bioinformatics, e-learning, knowledge management, blackboard and data mining. She has managed patent portfolios for several companies, and holds patents of her own in image search, vocabulary and taxonomy management, and e-commerce. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2002 - Unspecified
- Principal, DataStrategy LLC
- 1998 - 2002
- Chief Technology Officer, eMotion, Inc.
- 1988 - 1998
- Director, Digital Library Technology, SRA International
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Sharon Flank(?)
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Bing Challenges Google Again? Don't Hold Your Breath.
October 7, 2009
Google refines search results to counter Microsoft | www.businessweek.com
Microsoft continues to roll out features for its Bing search engine, and Google seems to be able to leapfrog them without a second thought.
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Nuance Speech Capabilities Can Fend off Microsoft, Google
July 13, 2009
Nuance Communications Acquisition Facing U.S. Probe | www.bloomberg.com
Nuance can expect to continue to grow by acquisition. With Philips, Dragon, and IBM's speech capabilities, they already control a significant swath of language technology. Plenty of acquisition opportunities remain in the application space, however, and there are no antitrust reasons to stand in their way, especially in light of the fact that Google and Microsoft remain potential competitors in everything they do.
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RFID: Expect slowing in health applications
October 13, 2008
RFID Monthly News: R W Baird & Co. | www.rwbaird.com
Smarter RFID is leading to growth in some applications, such as vehicle tracking and food freshness, and even management of assets such as laundry. But some of the hype from the Wal-Mart requirements and California drug e-pedigree legislation is dissipating: the technology is complicated and expensive, and there are continuing privacy and health concerns.
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Meta-Metadata: Picture Info Starts to Make Sense
October 3, 2008
Metadata Working Group Introduces First Specification for Interoperability and Preservation of Metadata in Digital Photography | www.examiner.com
Until visual image searching gets a lot better, you'll be relying on words (metadata) to find and make sense of your images, whether personal photos or a corporate image library. Thousands of hours have been spent muddling toward standards, and it would take thousands more to get compete agreement. Now an industry working group, led by Microsoft, has made excellent progress in getting the standards to interoperate. What does this mean? New tools (Picasa and beyond) can all understand how to manage your pictures, and corporate media managers will have fewer setup and maintenance headaches.
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July 30, 2008
Former Google engineers launch new search engine | www.bizjournals.com
Google is a behemoth, but it rules because it delivers better search results than the competition. That's how Google got ahead, and that's how they are maintaining their lead, against Microsoft, Yahoo!, and everybody else. Does the Cuil team have the magic to beat them at their own game?
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GLG Study Groups with Sharon Flank(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 16437 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 8640 |
| Experts in the Leisure & Lodging Council | 4887 |
| Experts in the Automotive Council | 3422 |
| Search Engine Experts | 307 |
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