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Autonomy Partners with NetChannel

Web-Enhanced Television Service to License Agentware i3 Products

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 15, 1997 - Autonomy announced a partnership today with NetChannel, the personalized Web-enhanced television service. Autonomy's Agentware i3 products will be used to help NetChannel deliver Internet content that is personalized for each viewer, playing a key role in NetChannel's personalization strategy.

"Autonomy's software will allow us to create a truly personalized Internet television experience for consumers," said Philip J. Monego, Sr., president and CEO of NetChannel. "NetChannel has built a service that uses the Internet as a resource, and Autonomy helps our viewers create their own online television experience with information that they care about."

Autonomy's technology automatically organizes the unstructured content of the World Wide Web according to the changing interests of individual viewers. It learns from observing the type of information that is being accessed by a viewer and then searches for more material related to the original concept. As viewer preferences and interests change over time, Autonomy's intelligent software adapts to new concepts.

"With Autonomy, NetChannel can automatically present viewers with focused Internet programming that will appeal to their individual tastes and interests," noted Dr. Michael Lynch, Autonomy's founder and CEO. "Our approach does not require viewers to complete tedious check lists and forms, and it does not use broad brush demographic data to guess at what a person might find of interest - instead, Autonomy learns about each individual's interests and intelligently seeks out more data that matches the pattern."

Autonomy's products are based on technology developed by Neurodynamics, the world leader in intelligent pattern recognition software. Neurodynamics' products have been used for the past six years for large scale British defense and police applications.

Agentware i3

NetChannel has integrated Autonomy's Agentware i3 Content Server™, Agentware i3 Daily Briefing™ and Agentware i3 User Profiling™ products into the NetChannel service. The Agentware i3 Content Server is Autonomy's flagship product and uses pattern matching, statistical probability theorems, and neural network principles to analyze the unstructured data found on the World Wide Web or any online archives. The software identifies key concepts in material that is accessed by a viewer along with the terms most closely associated with the concepts. The software abstracts then are used to identify other material containing the concepts.

By partnering with Autonomy and implementing its software, NetChannel will be able to provide its viewers with personalized, continuously updated, live online data and correlated existing information already present on the Web. As a viewer continues to use a NetChannel agent, it will become increasingly effective at identifying and automatically presenting data that is of interest only to that specific viewer.

About Autonomy, Inc.

Autonomy was founded in March, 1996, by Dr. Michael Lynch, a world renowned expert in the field of adaptive pattern recognition, and remains a privately held company. Autonomy is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Roseland, New Jersey, and Cambridge, England. Autonomy maintains a World Wide Web site at http://www.autonomy.com/.

About NetChannel

NetChannel's award-winning service personalizes, enhances and expands the television experience by using the Internet as a resource to deliver programming, communications and commerce. NetChannel's features include e-mail access, a comprehensive localized Electronic Program Guide, electronic commerce and a service that will facilitate contact among viewers with similar interests. Founded in May, 1996, the company employs a staff of 125, with offices in South San Francisco, Atlanta and London.

For more information: Editorial Contact
Please see NetChannel's Web site at http://www.netchannel.net/.
NetChannel is a trademark of NetChannel Inc.
Elaine Johnson, Autonomy, Inc.
elainej@autonomy.com
Tel: (415) 243-9955

Marivi Lerdo or Kris Marubio
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide
Tel: (415) 433-5381

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