Intel and AMD

Hoping to do more than survive, VIA has now introduced a motherboard which it hopes will bring a few design wins in the media server market. Named VB8002, the new Mini-ITX board aims to offer sufficient performance while maintaining power requirements low and for that it makes use of the CX700M2 chipset and a 1.6 GHz Nano processor.

"The VIA Nano processor is ideally suited to server applications that require superb performance in tandem with great power efficiency," said Daniel Wu, Vice President, VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "We are convinced that the VIA VB8002 board will be applauded by system integrators as the most well balanced, feature-rich media server platform available."

New ITL Brochure - October 2007 R&D Magazine LogoHigh-Speed Quantum Key System Wins Research Award Updated 9/20/07 - NIST Position on Proposed OOXML Standard ITL Completes 2007 Evaluation for the Automatic Content Extraction Program Technical staff in ITL’s Information Access Division has completed the 2007 evaluation for the Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) program. The ACE program is dedicated to the development of technologies that automatically extract informational content from source language data. The technologies have been evaluated in the context of text data for multiple languages. This year's evaluation consisted of eight basic tasks and three diagnostic tasks. Various tasks were offered for each of the four ACE languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, and Spanish). Systems were evaluated on their ability to detect predefined types of entities (e.g., persons, places, and things), values (e.g., quantity information), normalized temporal expressions, relations (e.g., relationships between two entities), and events (e.g., action involving one or more entities). The 16 participants in ACE-2007 came from industry, academia, and government contractors. ITL uses a value formula to judge how similar the system results are to that of carefully annotated reference data. The evaluation showed performance gains in English Entity Detection and Recognition (EDR) and English Temporal Expressions Detection and Normalization (TERN) language/tasks. In addition, performance levels were set for Spanish EDR, Chinese TERN, and Arabic EDR language/tasks. Click here for the complete results. ACE 2007 is part of an ongoing series of evaluations dedicated to the development of technologies that automatically infer meaning from language data. The evaluation occurred in late January, and the follow-on technical workshop was held in College Park, Maryland, in mid-March 2007. ITL conducts these evaluations in order to support information extraction research and help advance the state of the art in information extraction technology. These evaluations provide an important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities. ITL Advances the Use of Information Technology in Healthcare by Hosting HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Registry To advance the use of information technology in the healthcare arena, ITL hosts the HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Registry, which provides for the submission and listing of EHR System Functional Profiles that conform to the HL7 EHR System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) Standard. This standard provides a comprehensive list of functions that may be present in an electronic health record system; the function list enables consistent expression of EHR system functionality. An EHR System profile is a subset of the EHR-S FM Standard representing the functionality required and desired for a particular healthcare care setting, environment, or application (e.g., emergency care, pediatrics, nursing homes, or e-prescribing). Profiles are created by selecting the set of applicable functions. Creating profiles is a step towards widespread adoption of the standard because EHR systems conform to profiles rather than the standard itself. Registration is a mechanism for listing and making public conforming profiles recognized by the HL7 EHR Technical Committee. Registration facilitates the adoption of profiles by making them publicly available for use as well as minimizes the proliferation of profiles by making people aware of the ones that exist. The ITL-hosted HL7 EHR System Registry serves as a tool to automatically validate a profile for conformance to the EHR-S FM and as a repository of registered profiles. Anyone can use the registry to view or search for an EHR System Functional Profile or to submit a profile. Currently, there are two registered profiles: the Emergency Department Information Systems Profile and the Legal EHR profile. Additionally, there are several profiles under development, representing the functionality clinicians using EHR systems would need within the environments of care for behavioral health, long-term care, clinical research, and pediatrics. The website is www.nist.gov/profileregistry/. Workshops and Conferences: Meetings and Events at NIST NIST Visitor Info Diversity at NIST

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