Homeland Security Today - LAS 
...according to senior counterterrorists, known and suspected terrorists have entered the country despite being on terrorist watch lists. “There’s no reason to believe that this doesn’t happen every day,” said Dr. Jack Hermansen, a computational linguist who heads the Herndon, Virginia-based Language Analysis Systems (LAS), a company that produces computer name recognition software products that would have caught Kansi’s misspelled name...
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eWeek – SIM
IT still does matter. And it will continue to matter for the foreseeable future. Those messages resounded strongly at the annual Symposium of the Society for Information Management here this week.

The views were provoked by the message of opening night guest speaker Nicholas G. Carr, author of the recently published book "Does IT Matter?" In the book and in the article "IT Doesn't Matter" published in the Harvard Business Review last year, Carr contends that IT is rapidly approaching maturity due to standardization and commoditization...
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NY Times – ITA
Continental Airlines is hoping to lead the way. To retool its online travel-award search engine, it turned to ITA Software, the company behind the booking tool on the travel site Orbitz and on airline and other third-party travel sites...
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Network World – OctetString 

One challenge network administrators face in implementing portals or other enterprise applications is that user identity is fractured, residing in multiple directories tied to individual applications throughout an organization. As a result, it is difficult to provide enterprise applications with the comprehensive view of users they require to deliver their full value...
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