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years in the electronic information industry. today
announced the hiring of Kevin Kohls to the newly-created post of Executive
Vice President, Technology Operations.

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"Bringing on a proven
technical leader with Kevin's background will help us leverage our existing
resources, while at the same time providing a framework for structured growth.

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PRESS RELEASE Best Kept Secrets Dept.: Search Insider's Conference Attracts Industry Luminaries Major Users; Focuses on Trends in Advanced Search Enhanced Se

"The Search Engine Meeting is a unique conference where the leading edges
of search engine research and development, categorization, indexing,
natural language, and computer science converge," according to Nancy
Garman, writing in Information Today magazine about the conference's ninth
annual gathering .

Mike Moran Don't Just Change the Search Engine!
Distinguished Engineer & Manager
of ibm. Recently presented the Chairman's Honor award for his work
leading this activity, Kohls' team helped generate significant improvements in
throughput, schedule attainment and overall efficiency in key GM plants in
North America, Europe, and Australia.

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-- Claude Vogel , Chief Technical Officer, Convera Corporation;
-- Charles Huot is co-founder and chief operating officer of TEMIS;
-- Stephen Arnold, president, Arnold Information Technology (AIT);
-- Raul Valdes-Perez, co-founder and president of Vivisimo, Inc.infonortics. Vice President, Product
Marketing
Fast Search & Transfer

Session Five: Web Tools and Intelligent Tools

Paul Thompson Search and Misinformation in
Research Associate Professor, Intelligence and Security
Computer Science Department Informatics
Dartmouth College

Bob Wyman Searching the Future
Co-Founder and Chief Technology
Officer
PubSub Concepts, Inc.

Soar Technology Names Kohls Executive VP

"The demand for our services and products continues to increase at a rapid
rate," notes Jim Rosbe, SoarTech's president and CEO .
We'll be looking to Kevin to help us reach both our short and long term goals,
while at the same time maintaining our unique environment that has made
SoarTech a great place to work for technology professionals.

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A complete list of speakers and topics is attached.m.
Kohls, who holds a bachelor's degree from GMI (General Motors Institute,
now Kettering University) and a master's degree from Purdue University, comes
to SoarTech with 25 years of experience in engineering and management at
General Motors.

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Some typical developer organizations from past meetings include: Ask
Jeeves, Basis, DocSoft, Entopia, FindWhat, Inxight, iProspect, Microsoft,
MondoSoft, ProQuest , Speed of Mind, Verity, Yahoo!, Zoom, and ZyLAB.

Max Copperman WYSIWYG Search Crafting
Sr. Vice President & Chief Productivity Tool -
Technology Officer Or the Power to Search in Context
Nstein Technologies

Tuesday, April 25
Session Four: The World of the Web

Stephen Arnold Google: The Erosion of Relevance
President
AIT

John Lervik The Challenge of Mobile Searching
Co-Founder & CEO
Fast Search & Transfer;

Boerge Svingen
Co-Founder
Fast Search & Transfer

Raul Valdes-Perez Web Vortals are Back, and Why
Co-Founder & President
Vivisimo, Inc.

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Among the 25 individual speakers and panelists on the 2006 SEM program are

-- Michael Lynch, founder & Group CEO of U.S.

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is expected to
draw over 150 to the city's Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel on April 24-25.

Infonortics founder and managing director, Harry Collier
(http://www.

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Search Engine Meeting 2006
Boston, April 25-26
Speakers and Their Topics

Monday , April 24
9:00 a.

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The two-day annual event has been dubbed "the search insiders' conference"
in an article in CMOmagazine.infonortics. Besides SEM,
its annual conferences include the International Chemical Information
Conference and Exhibition, the International Virtual Communities
Conference, and the Intelligence Tools, Data Mining, Visualization
Conference (IDV).

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Joseph Tragert Concept Searching Across RSS Feeds
Director, Market Development and Structured Content
EBSCO Publishing Repositories: A Business Use Case

Alan Feuer Towards Restoring Conversation to
Founder and Chief Technologist Search
Blossom Software Inc.

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This year's talks fall into five categories: Searchers & Search Behavior;
Faceted & Federated Search; Mining; the World of the Web; and Web Tools &
Intelligent Tools. In his new position, Kohls will
oversee the company's technical projects for government and commercial clients
as well as software product development."
Founded in 1998 as a spinoff from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
of the University of Michigan, Soar Technology, Inc.com ) is a leading developer of intelligent autonomous
agent software and cognitive systems.

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Besides the two-day program, a half-day pre-conference tutorial by Arnold
on Google , Microsoft and Yahoo! will be given at the conference site Sunday
afternoon, April 23. Johnson Pharmaceutical , Reuters, Schering AG,
Thomson Scientific, U. He was chairman of the European
Association of Information Services (EUSIDIC) during 1983-84 and 1985-86.

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Sr.

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Collier is author of
two information-industry books -- "Strategies in the Electronic Information
Industry " (1991) and "The Electronic Publishing Maze: Strategies in the
Electronic Publishing Industry" (1998 ).
During 1988-1991, he was executive director of EUSIDIC. (http://www. Metasearch in the Big Bad World)

Session Three: Mining

Pete Cipollone Visualizing Emerging Intelligence
Director, Strategic Development, Through Text Mining
Text Mining & Visualization
Factiva

Charles Huot Searching & Mining
Co-Founder & COO
TEMIS

Laurent Proulx Enterprise Search As a
Sr.

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com), founded in 1987 and based in
offices in Tetbury, England, some 90 miles west of London , is both an
organizer of meetings, conferences and workshops and a publisher of
business and technology books, reports and custom studies.com Site Architecture IBM

Igor Perisic Search: New Technologies to Make It
Chief Technology Officer Good for Your Health
Healthline Networks, Inc. Director, Advanced Technology
Knova Software, Inc.

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Now in its 11th year, the conference, Search Engine Meeting (SEM),
organized by British technical publisher Infonortics Ltd.com/searchengines., Soar Technology, Inc.
(http://www.

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Architecture at IBM;
-- Alan Feuer, founder and Chief Technologist, Blossom Software, Inc. Environmental Protection Agency, and Verizon.com/infonortics/hrcbio.

In his last assignment as GM's Director of Throughput
Analysis and Simulation, he was responsible for manufacturing simulation,
bottleneck identification and root cause analysis, and throughput improvement
activities.

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"Above all, this is a trends meeting," says Harry Collier, Infonortics
founding and managing director who has been following electronic search
since its inception. ANN ARBOR, Mich.

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"At this event, academics and researchers talk the same
language, and the theoretical foreshadows the operational.

Some typical user organizations from previous gatherings include: Akzo
Nobel Chemicals, ASRC Aerospace Corp, Daum Communications (Korea), European
Patent Office, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fidelity Investments,
France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, Mitre Corporation, National Cancer
Institute, Nokia, R.W.soartech.

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-- Mike Moran, Distinguished Engineer & Manager of ibm.

Session Two: Faceted and Federated Search

Claude Vogel Speeding Search - Faceting for
Chief Technical Officer Faster, Relevant Drill-down
Convera Corporation

Abe Lederman Challenges in Scaling Federated
Founder, President & Chief Search
Technology Officer
Deep Web Technologies

Tom Reamy Faceted Navigation: An Alternative
Founder & Chief Knowledge Architect to Search and Browse
KAPS Group

Peter Noerr The Hidden Side of the Metasearch
Co-Founder & Chief Technologist (Federated Search)World (or
MuseGlobal Inc.

Multi-speaker session: The Emerging Digital Marketplace

Susan Feldman
Director, Content and Retrieval
Technologies Program
IDC

Michael Lynch
Founder & Group CEO
Autonomy Corporation , plc

Josh Jacobs
President
X1 Technologies, Inc.

Elizabeth (Liz) Liddy Leveraging the Unrealized Value in
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Information Studies, and Director,
Center for Natural Language
Processing
Syracuse University

Stavros Macrakis Automatically Generated Summaries
of Web Content

Note: Order of speakers on each day may change.

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"SEM is a major annual forum for studying the trends
in the world of search.-based Autonomy Corporation ,
plc;
-- Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca Technologies Inc. SoarTech's state-of-the-art
"intelligent agents" provide human-like reasoning in software to automate
complex tasks, simplify human-system interaction, and simulate human-like
behavior for military and civilian applications ranging from simulation to
training, experimentation, intelligence analysis, and command and control of
mixed teams of human and robotic forces.

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A little-known international search-engine
conference, dubbed "the search insider's conference," will once again be
attracting leading search industry researchers , designers and developers as
well as academics, investors, and major corporate users to Boston this
spring.com by search industry CEO Fredrick Marckini
of iProspect." Among trends on which Collier expects speakers to
focus are developments in advanced search, enhanced search, and the growing
impact of electronic search on almost every aspect of modern life. Further information
about the conference , including speaker bios, is available at
http://www. CONFERENCE OPENING Topic
Session One: Searchers and Search

Behavior
Steve Papa Searching The Long Tail
CEO
Endeca Technologies Inc.

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The founding editor for the
industry monthly newsletter Monitor from 1981-1993,.

Infonortics Ltd. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with
offices in Orlando , Florida, SoarTech is a privately-held, rapidly-growing,
profitable company.