Briefs

December 4, 2008, By Allan Maurer

CHARLESTON, SC -- Electronically scouring unstructured data to discover anomalies or connections has quite a lot of potential for various purposes, but BeliefNetworks plans to focus on two primary but unconnected areas, disaster and emergency support and ad networks, says CTO Ted Tanner.

Both Tanner and his co-founder, Lisa Maki, president, have worked with major players in the IT industry and have specific experience in data mining. At Microsoft, Maki helped define a new product in the area of International Disaster Response and Recovery for the company�s Research & Incubation team, with an emphasis on knowledge discovery and data fusion.

Tanner was a systems architect for Apple and an architectural strategist for Microsoft.

He also played instrumental roles in four start-ups, including Avid/digidesign, Crystal River Engineering (bought by Creative Labs) and Mongo Music, which sold to Microsoft for $75 million.

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