A -- AN ELECTRONIC EQUIVALENT OF A PAPER RESEARCH NOTEBOOK

Notice Date

December 6, 2001

Contracting Office

UT-Battelle, Office of Technology Transfer, 111B Union Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6499

ZIP Code

37831-6499

Solicitation Number

none

Response Due

July 18, 2001

Point of Contact

Margaret Spurlin (865) 576-5272

E-Mail Address

Contact, Margaret Spurlin, Commercialization Manager (spurlinms@ornl.gov)

Description

UT-Battelle, LLC (UT-Battelle), the management and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is seeking expressions of interest from companies for collaborative research, licensing, and commercialization of ORNL's intellectual property in the technology area of intelligent software agents for gathering, organizing, and distilling massive amounts of information. With Virtual Information Processing Agent Research (VIPAR), intelligent software agents have been successfully developed to address the challenges facing the research community in quickly gathering and organizing massive amounts of information then distilling that information into a visual format. VIPAR reads and organizes information from the entire text of electronically available documents, such as Internet newspapers, not just from the metadata. VIPAR then visually presents the information, organized according to the needs of the customer. The system automatically and intelligently leverages the researcher's expertise to process and distill information many times faster and more thoroughly than could be done manually by the researcher. Researchers can read tens of thousands of machine-readable articles, independent of language used. VIPAR is capable of organizing 10,000 articles per day, requiring only a desktop computer. The information is then presented to the researcher using a Phylips Tree representation to visually and efficiently present the massive amount of collected and sorted data. The technology transfer process will be facilitated through appropriate licensing of UT-Battelle's intellectual property and associated research and development undertaken cooperatively between UT-Battelle and the licensee. Research and development will focus on transitioning the technology from the current stage to commercialization. Interested companies with experience and expertise commensurate with the requirements of this commercialization effort are invited to respond to this announcement. Companies interested in this opportunity may obtain more detailed technical information and a description of the licensing and cooperative research and development process by submitting a statement of interest, including a written description of their company and its activities and an explanation of their potential application of the technology. One-page expression of interest should be received by February 4, 2002. It is anticipated that a formal request for proposals will be available by March 4, 2002. No licensing intermediaries please. This is not a procurement activity.

Web Link

VIPAR Multi-Agent Intelligence Analysis System (http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~v8q/Homepage/Projects/vipar.htm)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011210/ASOL006.HTM (W-340 SN5145N3)