Dear friends:

As a sign of our intense work through this year, I would like to emphasize three points. The first one is about our activity for the on-line media. Surely, you have heard about the new on-line media company: lainformacion.com. We collaborate in this journalistic initiative with our technology from the very beginning. We are very proud of its successful launching. [Read more]   

Maybe you have read about the famous “six degrees of separation”. Network Science arises as a new paradigm for the study of complex systems which are articulated as inter-related entity networks. This discipline is reaching levels of maturity which allow the use of its techniques about analysis and visualization in several sectors. At DAEDALUS, we are developing applications for clients in the Defense industry. [Read more]

Finally, as a sign of our determined bet for innovation in the audiovisual sector, we inform you about the three new projects in which we deal with tasks related to multimedia and multilingual content access. [Read more]

The Spanish Government had just approved a draft of the Sustainable Economy Act. For the time being, it is just a set of measures for trying to sustain the national economy. A sustainable economy should be reached in the long run with education, values and effort. At DAEDALUS, we contribute to sustainable economy by applying the same formula as eleven years ago: by putting our abilities, innovation nature and effort at the disposal of our clients in order to progress in the knowledge society.

Yours faithfully,
José Carlos González.

24^th September. Juan Kindelán, president of Dixi Media Digital, Mario Tascón, editor of lainformacion.com, and Vanessa Jiménez, director, made the public presentation of lainformacion.com: a new media company which combines the best informative resources by journalists, users and automatic systems. DAEDALUS is being collaborating from the very beginning in the development of the platform, contributing and integrating its technology for news automatic processing, not only from own production but from hundreds of on-line media: classifying them thematically, extracting the meaningful entities (people, organizations, places, etc.), clustering them instantly, deleting duplications from a single source, etc.      

DAEDALUS will continue contributing to the support and improvement of the systems that automate the document management of the technical platform that lainformacion.com holds up. We wish the best for this brave company and we had the chance to drink a toast for it in the presentation act.

Throughout this year, we have started three new projects with public financing in the audiovisual sector:

• MundoAv (Online Global Platform for Audiovisual Commerce and Industry) is a project led by Telvent, with the participation of Cinevideo20, Corporación Multimedia, Agencia EFE, Technical University of Madrid and DAEDALUS.
• Media 3.0 (Multimedia and Web 3.0) is a project led by Planet Media, with the participation of Unidad Editorial, Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales, Microgénesis, Secuenzia, El Mundo TV and DAEDALUS.
• BuscaMedia (Towards a semantic adaptation of multi-network and multi-terminal digital media) is a project led by Atos Origin, with the participation of Activa Multimedia, GFI, INDRA, CCMA, Bilbomática, Fractalia, BMAT, ISID, iSoCo and DAEDALUS.

Public financing for the two first projects comes from the R&D Plan Avanza (Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism) and for the third one, from the CENIT Program (CDTI, Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation).

• DAEDALUS sponsors the 18^th international web conference (www2009)
  Madrid, 20^th-24^th April 2009
  DAEDALUS is sponsor of the 18^th International Word Wide Web Conference 2009, organized by the W3C and the Technical University of Madrid.
  Enter the website of www2009
• DAEDALUS organizes a session about Business Rules in the conference EURO 2009
  Bonn, 5^th-8^th June 2009
  DAEDALUS participates in the 23^rd European Conference on Operational Research, organizing a guest session about Business Rules Systems.
  Enter the website of Euro2009
• DAEDALUS with the 25^th edition of the SEPLN Conference
  San Sebastián, 8^th-10^th September 2009
  DAEDALUS, as institutional partner of the SEPLN (Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing), supports the celebration of this event.
  Enter the website of SEPLN 2009
• DAEDALUS in the 3^rd international conference "Media for All"
  Antwerp, 22^nd-24^th October 2009
  DAEDALUS presents a lecture called "Automatic Assistant for Unattended Production of Subtitles".
  Enter the website of MediaforAll 2009
• DAEDALUS in FICOD 2009
  Madrid, 17^th-19^th November 2009
  DAEDALUS intervenes in the workshop "MundoAV: online global platform for Industry and Audiovisual Commerce”.
  Enter the website of FICOD 2009
• DAEDALUS in RuleML 2009, International Simposyum on Rule Interchange and Applications
  Las Vegas, Nevada, 5^th-7^th November 2009
  DAEDALUS presents the works "Towards an Improvement of Software Development Processes through Standard Business Rules" and "K-Site Rules at the RuleML Challenge 2009"
  Enter the website of RuleML 2009
• DAEDALUS in the 4^th MAVIR Conference
  Madrid, 19^th-20^th November 2009
  DAEDALUS is member of the MAVIR Consortium and co-sponsor of the MAVIR Award 2009. Moreover, it coordinates the forum "Practical results with companies of the MAVIR Consortium".
  Enter the website of the MAVIR Consortium
• DAEDALUS in the forum Semantic Web in the Spanish Industry
  Madrid, 9^th December 2009, 1 pm
  School of Telecommunication Engineering (Technical University of Madrid), Building C, Auditorium
  Commemorative Ceremony of the 125^th anniversary of the IEEE