Northern Light CEO to Join Vint Cerf, Charles Vest and Other Notables on Rostrum at IEEE Future of Information Workshop

David Seuss to discuss document search and meaning extraction at IT thought leaders forum in Washington, D.C. May 24-26, 2010

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May 05, 2010, 09:00 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- C. David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light (www.northernlight.com), will be part of a group of information technology (IT) industry thought leaders offering perspectives on how information will be captured, processed and consumed 10 years hence at an IEEE workshop being held in Washington, D.C. May 24-26, 2010.

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Seuss will speak to the IEEE Workshop on the Future of Information about trends in document search and meaning extraction. The conference also will feature presentations by industry notables including Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google and often called "the father of the internet"; Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel E. Atkins, professor of information and EECS at the University of Michigan; as well as research executives from Microsoft Corp. and IBM.

"It's an honor to be included on such an illustrious panel of presenters," Seuss said. "Each speaker at this workshop will address a different issue related to the future of information. My focus is on teaching search engines to interpret meaning in documents. I believe that the exponential increase in the volume of published technical and business research makes the automatic analysis and discovery of meaning from large document repositories a crucial component of search technology if we are going to progress. A researcher can only read a small portion of the research on any topic, so we have to train the search engines to analyze all the material and tell the researcher what the researcher would have learned had he or she been able to personally read all the documents published on a topic. By 2020, meaning extraction will be a well-established means of improving the application of knowledge in all industries."

Seuss has spent much of his career in the IT industry. Prior to joining Northern Light as its founding CEO in 1996, Seuss founded Spinnaker Software, which he led from inception to a publicly-traded company listed on NASDAQ. Before Spinnaker, Seuss was a manager and consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School and a bachelor of industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, and is a member of the board of advisors of the Tennenbaum Institute of Georgia Tech.

About the IEEE Workshop on the Future of Information

The IEEE Workshop on the Future of Information is a three-day conference designed to produce a well-articulated vision of the future of professional work in 2020. Its focus is on technology professionals and engineers addressing global challenges, enabled by information of a wide range of types and uses, and supported by state-of-the-art information and communications technologies. Topics will include how information is generated, accessed, and utilized, as well as the economics of generation, access, and use. The workshop will be held at the Keck Center at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C., May 24-26, 2010. It is being organized by a team under the direction of Anthony Durniak of IEEE and William B. Rouse, executive director of the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology.

About Northern Light

Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals, business research content, and search technology to global enterprises since 1996. Northern Light's current clients include Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, Northern Light Group LLC is a profitable, privately-held, self-funded company with more than 50 employees.

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