Cityon is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Houston, TX. According to the post, “This is an 8-month contract, to begin as soon as possible. This person will design, develop and communicate software architecture models with a primary focus on J2EE platforms, Service Oriented Architecture and integration technologies.” This position will “Perform Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing of various components for the Semantic Technology Initiative and related applications of the Research Station program.” Read more

Semantic Tech & Business Conference Returns to San Francisco

Semantic Tech & Business Conference returns to San Francisco in June! Join us from June 3-7 for complete coverage of Big Data, Linked Data, Extreme Information Management, and Semantic Web. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz provides you with an unparalleled interactive experience and delivers tangible business value. We're offering a special early rate when you register by February 17. Sign up now!

HP is looking for a Technical Lead with SOA implementation experience in San Antonio, TX. In addition to SOA experience, the company is looking for someone with strong working knowledge of Oracle HR and semantic web technology. According to the post, “Our $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers. Hewlett-Packard is a leading global technology services provider delivering business solutions to its clients.” Read more

St. Edward’s University of Austin, Texas is looking for a Web Developer. The post states, “Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Information Systems within the Office of Information Technology, the team provides mission critical services to multiple constituencies both internal and external to the university. The successful
candidate will work as a member of a dedicated, professional team charged with imagining, designing, developing and maintaining multiple complex web sites and applications. The Web Team recently completed the redevelopment of the university’s primary web presence www.stedwards.edu and is currently formulating the university’s mobile web strategy. The Web Team will provide leadership in the arenas of design, development, application integration and user experience as it partners with the university’s administrative computing group to implement a comprehensive web portal.” Read more

80 Legs is looking for a Systems Operations Engineer and a Data Engineer in Houston, TX. A qualified candidates for the Systems Operations Engineer position “Takes on the challenge of understanding and monitoring a complex, high-performance back-end infrastructure. Is constantly looking for ways to improve the performance of back-end operations and make monitoring those systems more efficient. Has a combination of development and systems experience.” The Data Engineer candidate “Understands and has experience with big data technologies (e.g., NoSQL, Hadoop). Has a solid understanding of data structures. Gets excited when working with unfathomably large data sets and computational challenges they present.” Read more

FIT Recruiting Solutions is looking for a Java Developer at its office in Dallas, TX. According to the post, “The Java Developer will work as part of a collaborative design and development team focused on the grant-funded Visual Understanding Environment II project (VUE) at Tufts University. The VUE project at Tufts Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible, visual tools for integrating digital resources into teaching, learning and research. The Java Developer will create and modify Java-based user interface and information visualization components and for VUE based on design specifications drafted by the project team’s lead designer. This position will play an active role implementing the application’s new look and feel and in visually presenting RDF-based data structures as part of VUE II’s enhanced functionality.” Read more

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). I know that this is a strong statement, but I am confident that it will happen. Mainstream is defined in Wikipedia as “the common current of thought of the majority.” Furthermore it states that something is mainstream if it “is available to the general public” and it “has ties to corporate or commercial entities.” However, how do you evaluate if something is on the verge of becoming mainstream? I propose the following metric:  inclusion at the South by South West (SXSW) Conference!

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The 2009 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) took place June 14-18, 2009 in San Jose, California. SemTech is produced by Semantic Universe and brings together the entire marketplace of semantic technology vendors, developers, researchers, start-ups, investors and customers. Here is a small sample of the hundreds of companies who signed up to attend:

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The official attendance count for SemTech 2009 was 1170 individuals, from the following organizations (note many organizations were represented by multiple attendees).

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) captures “what is happening” in the enterprise: how the enterprise’s activities, processes, capabilities, systems and components, information resources and technologies relate to the enterprise’s missions, goals and measurement system. The objective of EA is to be able to understand the relationships between these elements — analyze and continuously adjust them to align with business strategy, improve effectiveness and quality of service. This is an important goal critical in today’s enterprises where business functions are inseparable from the technologies supporting them. However, the implementation of EA typically falls very short of the goal.

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Smarter Searches: Technology Merges Images, Data and Knowledge University of Texas at Dallas (press release), TX The secret lies in merging evolving semantic Web technology with geospatial information systems. The semantic Web is a smarter Web in which online content will be machine-understandable, enabling computers to process the meaning of words and phrases …