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LCI receives EU grant for research project (04.08.2005)

LCI GmbH announces that the AMASS Consortium has been awarded a 900.000 Euro grant from the European Community. The grant extends to the next two years and will cover parts of the costs needed to develop the AMASS-Platform. AMASS stands for “IP Core and System Design of Associative Memory Arrays for Semantic Search”.


Its main goal is to embed the latest content based, semantic search technology on a hardware (FPGA) basis. The AMASS prototype will be delivered in 2007 and consists of a hardware supported application server for associative database search, document retrieval, based on semantic similarities, processing of natural language queries (answers to questions), and multimedia management systems. The hardware support will speed up the performance by a large (50-100) factor compared to general-purpose platforms. This kind of hybrid software-hardware solutions will form the core of the next generation of knowledge-retrieval engines. The AMASS Consortium consists of the following companies and academic laboratories:

  • LCI (Learning Computers International) GmbH, Kirchzarten, Germany – Co-ordinator
  • Intelligent Software Components S.A., Madrid, Spain
  • Visual Century Research S.L., Barcelona, Spain
  • Department of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
  • CEPHIS Lab, Department of Computer Science, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • Kepler-Rominfo S.A, Bucuresti, Romania
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

For further information, please contact the project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Pal Rujan, LCI GmbH, Kirchzarten, Freiburger Str. 6, D-79199, e-mail: info@amass-platform.com

About iSOCO Lab
iSOCO was born in 1999 at the laboratories of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) of the Spanish National Research Council, at the Campus of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This origin is still strongly present in iSOCO through iSOCO Lab, a highly renowned international center for R&D in the area of the Information Society and, in particular, in Semantic Web Technologies, Web Services, Semantic Grid, and Knowledge Acquisition. iSOCO Lab has members in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.

About Visual Century
Visual Century is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. Visual Century develops software products to index, analyze, access and publish digital video, audio and images in asset management applications that include archiving, production, retrieval, navigation and broadcast of rich media content. The Visual Century team is made up of highly qualified professionals that share the quality, technology and innovation objectives of the company. Visual Century products stand out because of their innovative vision of rich media content, and they are designed to facilitate the use, management and exploitation of video, audio and image content.

About LCI
LCI is a technologically oriented enterprise that focuses on the development of novel, learning systems for business process optimization and information extraction. With a highly qualified team of experts in the field of classification, extraction and document automation LCI has succeeded to create worldwide unique products during the past years. More then 150 users already rely on LCI technology.

For further information please view www.lci-software.com/en or send an e-mail to info@lci-software.com.