VIRAGE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF EFFORTS IN THE WAKE OF POTENTIAL MAJOR DISASTERS
Virage selected to participate in Strong Angel III Integrated Disaster Response Demonstration
Virage, Cambridge, MA, August 21st, 2006 - Virage's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) today announced its participation in Strong Angel III, a collaborative demonstration of civil and military cooperation and communication capabilities put together by a partnership of private companies, government agencies, humanitarian and relief agencies and universities. Hosted by San Diego State University and taking place in San Diego, August 21-26, Strong Angel III will field test effective means of delivering life-saving humanitarian relief and rapidly deployable communications systems in the wake of major disasters.
The Strong Angel III demonstration will assume the context of a worldwide pandemic caused by a highly contagious virus, which is further complicated by a wave of cyber-attacks inflicted by terrorists that cripple critical local infrastructure and systems. Strong Angel III team members will conduct field trials and demonstrations of solutions that address 49 specific humanitarian relief challenges - both technical and social - that have not yet been adequately overcome in real disaster relief efforts.
"In the wake of major incidents like the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, it is more important than ever to have an integrated response when disaster strikes," said Eric Rasmussen, MD, Director of Strong Angel III and Professor at San Diego State University. "Public-and private-sector engagement in Strong Angel III is at remarkable levels, underscoring the significance of the task at hand and the commitment of everyone involved to work together to maximize preparedness and coordination efforts."
Effective collection, exploitation and dissemination of high-value information are critical during a crisis. The Virage Strong Angel III project will seek to address these challenges by providing the following technologies:
eViTAP - A fully automated, real-time, multilingual, broadcast news and video VoIP monitoring system. eViTAP will provide access to all SA-III video transmissions, as well as live Arabic, Mandarin, Persian, Russian, and English news sources.
IDOL-based TransMedia Crisis Index (TCI) - A sophisticated tool that adds new intelligence capabilities, enabling organizations to automatically make conceptual and contextual associations between disparate pieces of data.
Dr. David D. Palmer, Virage Vice President of Research, commented, "Virage's eViTAP and IDOL-based TCI demonstrate a novel approach for providing timely, actionable intelligence that will enhance the situational awareness of communities that must come together to manage and control local crisis events. We are delighted to be chosen to take part in Strong Angel III."
About Strong Angel III
Strong Angel III is the third in a series of demonstrations that have taken place since 2000. The first two Strong Angel demonstrations were held in 2000 and 2004 in Hawaii associated with the joint Naval exercises called RIMPAC. The primary goals of Strong Angel III are to field-test and demonstrate effective means of delivering life-saving humanitarian relief in the wake of natural and man-made disasters, to foster close collaboration and communications between aid agencies, governments and military in providing disaster relief, to provide local communities with solutions that will help them cope with disasters more immediately and effectively, and to enable military forces to better prepare for and execute humanitarian relief efforts. Strong Angel III will issue a lessons-learned document on its website as soon as possible after conclusion of the demonstration. For more information on Strong Angel III and a listing of participating public- and private-sector organizations, please visit www.strongangel3.net.
About Virage
Virage, a division of the Autonomy Group, is the world leader in Rich Media Management software and Intelligent Video Analytics. Bringing together complementary technologies from multimedia, security and infrastructure specialists, Virage offers an unrivalled product set capable of television, video, audio and CCTV challenges of any kind. From making television content fully searchable and accessible via IPTV to supplying and managing complex security systems, Virage has unrivalled experience and expertise.
Virage has a long and distinguished history of enabling organizations across all sectors to derive maximum benefit from their multimedia assets automatically and in real-time. Customers include the BBC, CNN, France 2, Boeing, BAE Systems, Daimler Chrysler, New York University, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, the NBA, the Toronto Police Department and numerous intelligence and defense agencies.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, compliance and litigation solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Shell, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Hutchison 3G, Ericsson, T-Mobile, Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Lloyds TSB, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. Autonomy has over 300 OEM partners and more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Vignette, Tibco, Stellent, Symantec and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in Real-Time Enterprise Governance; Virage, a visionary in Rich Media Management and Security and Surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions, and Ultraseek, a leading provider of business search engines.
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