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Christine Maxwell (born 16 August 1950) is a British Internet content pioneer and educator, best known as the creator and co-founder of
Magellan. Maxwell also co-founded the software company Chiliad and is the author of several books. She is the Program Manager of Learning Technologies at the
University of Texas at Dallas.
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Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 'Connecting the Dots' Problem, Hires Dan Ferranti as CEO
Industry veteran CEO Dan Ferranti assumes command to expand Chiliad’s presence
March 03, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
WASHINGTON--(
BUSINESS WIRE)--For nearly 10 years Chiliad™, Inc., has been quietly working behind the scenes to develop some of the most powerful and innovative software in the U.S. government’s anti-terrorism arsenal. With the addition of Dan Ferranti, a veteran CEO with a proven 27-year track record in the information technology field, the Washington, D.C.-based company is preparing to extend the benefits of its ground-breaking technology beyond its already-impressive client base.
Chiliad’s founders were influenced by the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Investigations into both events concluded that information stored in incompatible databases and documents maintained by different departments and organizations could have allowed managers and officials to prevent those disasters. But there simply was no existing technology to “connect the dots” across so many incompatible systems and organizations. Efforts to solve this problem hastened development efforts within Chiliad and drove the first deployment of Chiliad’s software within the U.S. intelligence community to create a virtual knowledge environment across distributed information stovepipes, databases and applications.
“The phrase ‘connecting the dots’ is central to understanding Chiliad’s principal software product, Chiliad Discovery/Alert™,” says Ferranti. Ferranti adds, ”Chiliad Discovery/Alert is a comprehensive platform that provides search, information extraction, on-the-fly analysis, real-time knowledge fusion, dynamic navigation and real time alerting. Our key differentiator is the ability to seamlessly tie together all of an organization’s distributed ‘stovepipe’ applications and disconnected data repositories. In some of our U.S. government deployments, we even go across different agencies to get at the heart of the ‘9/11 problem.’ Our software makes all of these resources appear as a single virtual repository to any authorized user.”
“We go much deeper than simply linking the user to multiple systems in a federated search environment,” Ferranti continues. “Chiliad’s software has the capacity and intelligence to analyze and compare data from a variety of networked repositories
simultaneously. This means we can deliver the best information available to the user, and also uncover hidden connections in the data that would otherwise be missed.”
“The company has operationally proven itself in some of the most challenging search, analysis and alerting deployments in existence within the U.S. government,” Ferranti concludes. “Chiliad has demonstrated the ability to solve challenges that have stumped vendors in the search, analysis, business analytics, and database management fields.”
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