BasisTech
| BASIS TECHNOLOGY |
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| Official Website: http://www.basistech.com |
| Official about page: http://www.basistech.com/about/ |
| Country: Please specify country |
| Location: HQ: One Alewife CenterCambridge, MA 02140 USA
171 Second StreetSan Francisco, CA 94105 USA 2553 Dulles View DriveSte. 450Herndon, VA 20171 USA 9-6 Nibancho, Chiyoda-kuTokyo 102-0084 Japan One Furzeground Way Stockley Park, Middlesex UB11 1BD United Kingdom |
| Founded: 1995 |
| Business: Data-Mining, Analytics, Indentification, NLP, GeoLocating |
| Contact |
| Phone: Toll free number +1 (800) 697-2062 +1 (617) 386-2000 Main |
| Fax: +1 (617) 386-2020 |
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Background
Funded by the CIA's In-Q-Tel. See also Green Badgers
"Basis Technology was founded in 1995 by MIT-educated engineers with experience living and doing business abroad. Today, with 60+ government deployments (200+ commercial) and over a decade of experience, Basis Technology is a trusted source of multilingual text analytics and digital forensics for government agencies and system integrators."
"Basis Technology develops innovative products and solutions incorporating multilingual text analytics and digital forensics. Our Rosette linguistics platform provides morphological analysis, entity extraction, name matching, name translation, and Arabic chat translation, yielding useful information from unstructured data in such fields as information retrieval, government intelligence, e‑discovery, and financial compliance. Our digital forensics team pioneers better, faster, and cheaper techniques to extract forensic evidence, keeping government and law enforcement ahead of exponential growth of data storage volumes.
Our products and services are used by over 250 major organizations, including Amazon.com, EMC, Endeca, Exalead/Dassault, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle, and governments around the world. " - Basic Technology website -
- Basis Technologies also performs custom work and "supports" SleuthKit org, along with IDEAL Technology Corporation. The SLEUTHKIT.org website includes the name of a Board Member, Brian Carrier. of Basis Technology on the bottom of the page.
Products
Rosette Linguistics Program
Highlight Language Analysis Suite
"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), together with Basis Technology, have partnered to eliminate the difficulties in transliterating names of foreign persons and places into Intelligence Community (IC) standards. Through a multi-year program, licenses to the Highlight language analysis suite are available to all IC elements."
"The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a library and collection of command line tools that allow you to investigate disk images. The core functionality of TSK allows you to analyze volume and file system data. The plug-in framework allows you to incorporate additional modules to analyze file contents and build automated systems. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence. "
Countries using products
Reports
- Number of Terrorist Websites Has Exploded (Pun Intended) by Charles Hoskinson and Scott Allswang in Faith Defenders
- 11.22.2010 Startups Backed By The CIA By Kashmir Hill, Forbes
Tech & Business Partners
"products and services are used by over 250 major organizations, including Amazon.com, EMC, Endeca, Exalead/Dassault, Fujitsu, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle, and governments around the world."
Partial List of Customers:
U.S. Government
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD)
- U.S. Intelligence Community
Government Contractors
- CACI
- In-Q-Tel - * 11.22.2010 Startups Backed By The CIA By Kashmir Hill, Forbes
- Lockheed Martin
- Northrup Grumman
- SAIC
People Responsible
Board Members
- Carl W. Hoffman, CEO and Chairman
Carl founded Basis Technology in 1995 to help American companies enter Asian markets.
In 1999, the company shipped its first products for website internationalization, enabling Lycos and Google to become the first search engines capable of cataloging the web in both Asian and European languages.
In 2003, the company shipped its first Arabic analyzer and began development of a comprehensive text analytics platform. Today, Basis Technology is recognized as the leading provider of components for information retrieval, entity extraction, and entity resolution in many languages.
Carl has been directly involved with the company’s activities in support of national security missions, and works closely with analysts in the U.S. intelligence community.
Prior to starting Basis Technology, Carl worked as an independent consultant in Boston, New York and Tokyo to international clients in finance and knowledge management.
Carl spent eight years on the research staff of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
He is an active contributor to several non-profit organizations, including the Free Software Foundation, the MIT Alumni Fund, and the Unicode Consortium.
- Steven Cohen, Executive VP and COO, Co-Founder
Steve is responsible for worldwide sales and the planning and operations of Basis Technology’s linguistic product research and development. Before starting Basis Technology with Carl Hoffman, Steve was engineering manager for Cognex Corporation’s Tokyo office and development manager for SMT device inspection. He has also consulted on software internationalization engineering and developed software for embedded systems and electronic test equipment.
Steve earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.
- Benson Margulies, Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer
Benson provides technological leadership at Basis Technology. With the R&D team, he breaks ground in new technologies for the company’s core products and incubator projects. In custom solution projects, he works with customers, rapidly grasping their specific needs and then setting direction and strategy to meet those multilingual challenges. Prior to Basis Technology, Benson held technical and management positions at Kendall Square Research, Symbolics, Object Design, and Honeywell Information Systems. He is also an active contributor to the open source software community as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a Project Management Committee member of Apache Mahout and Apache CXF. Benson holds a degree in computer science from MIT.
- Daphne Kuo, Vice President, CFO
Daphne oversees the finance and accounting operations and provides overall financial vision for the company. Daphne has extensive experience working with senior executives to improve the bottom-line, grow revenue and achieve strategic objectives in the technology, financial services and consumer products industries. Prior to Basis Technology, Daphne held various financial management positions at Fidelity Investments, iCAST Corporation and Toshiba America Information Systems.
Daphne holds a BS in business administration from National Taiwan University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She is a licensed CPA in the state of Massachusetts.
- Dr. Brian Carrier, Vice President, Digital Forensics
Brian leads the digital forensics team at Basis Technology, delivering services and developing custom systems. He is the author of the book File System Forensic Analysis and developer of several open source digital forensics analysis tools, including The Sleuth Kit and the Autopsy Forensic Browser.
Brian has a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University and worked previously for @stake as a research scientist and the technical lead for their digital forensics lab. Brian is on the committees of many conferences, workshops and technical working groups, including the Annual DFRWS Conference and the Digital Investigation Journal.
- David Murgatroyd, Vice President, Engineering
Dave joined Basis Technology in 2005. He leads the engineering team responsible for text analytics including existing products and new technology initiatives. He has over a decade of experience in natural language processing, including positions at Unveil Technologies, Zoesis, Wildfire Communications, and iConverse.
He has a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University and a Master’s degree in computer speech and language processing from Cambridge University, U.K.
- Bill Ray, Vice President, Corporate Development and Federal Sales
Bill and his team introduce current and prospective customers to the breadth of Basis Technology’s software products, custom solutions, and engineering services. Through this effort, the team is responsible for driving Basis Technology’s customer acquisition strategies and revenue production. Bill has a diverse background in marketing and new customer acquisition. As Basis Technology’s Business Development Director, he was instrumental in building the company’s U.S. government business, which has become the company’s fastest growing customer segment. Prior to joining Basis Technology, Bill ran marketing and strategic partnership operations for Flashpoint Technologies, and managed events and cross-selling opportunities for some of the world’s leading consumer brands as a marketing manager for the National Basketball Association.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and a master’s degree from the University of Richmond.
- Joel Ross, Vice President, Defense & Intelligence Services
Joel oversees opportunities for Basis Technology to fulfill the needs generated by the U.S. government, particularly in the defense and intelligence communities. He is responsible for determining what those needs are, and the best way to bring together U.S. government project managers and Basis Technology’s software and engineering teams to produce results that benefit both parties.
Prior to Basis Technology, Joel served over 21 years for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where his work was recognized by the U.S. government through numerous accolades, including the State Department Superior Honor Award, the National Intelligence Meritorious Award, and a five-time conferral of the CIA Exceptional Performance Award. He has lived and worked on four different continents.
Joel is a graduate of Cornell University, and holds an advanced degree from San Francisco State University.
- John Rueter, Vice President, Marketing
John oversees Basis Technology’s global marketing activity and brings over twenty years of increasingly responsible positions in marketing, sales, and general management in the information management sector. John’s role at Basis Technology is aimed at creating and communicating clear customer value for multilingual text analytics tools and solutions. Prior to joining Basis Technology, John led marketing efforts at enterprise software companies Endeca;;; (Search and Business Intelligence), StreamServe (Document Management), and Fast Search and Transfer (Enterprise Search).
John holds an MBA with a concentration in marketing and management policy from the Boston University Graduate School of Management and an AB from Harvard College.
- Amy Silverstein, Vice President, General Counsel
Amy is responsible for overseeing Basis Technology’s worldwide legal affairs and manages the company’s legal and human resources departments. Since graduating from Boston University, Amy has had a successful career spanning more than 17 years in the legal, academic and business worlds. Prior to joining the company in 2005, she held positions at Harvard Business School, as an associate at Goodwin Procter, and as the Assistant General Counsel for a Massachusetts-based publicly traded company. She has worked with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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