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Sharon Flank

Sharon Flank, Principal, DataStrategy LLCPrincipal
DataStrategy LLC
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Sharon Flank, Ph.D., is the Principal at DataStrategy LLC, a technology consulting firm. She specializes in patent strategy, competitive analysis and product development. Previously, she was the Chief Technology Officer at eMotion, Inc and managed product engineering and R&D for digital media management at SRA International. Dr. Flank specializes in data-rich applications, enterprise search, natural language processing, media management, text understanding, machine translation, visualization, bioinformatics, e-learning, knowledge management, blackboard and data mining. She has managed patent portfolios for several companies, and holds patents of her own in image search, vocabulary and taxonomy management, and e-commerce. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2002 - present Principal
DataStrategy LLC
1998 - 2002 Chief Technology Officer
eMotion, Inc.
1988 - 1998 Director, Digital Library Technology
SRA International

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RFID: Expect slowing in health applications | 10-13-2008
Analysis of: RFID Monthly News: R W Baird & Co. | www.rwbaird.com
Author: Sharon Flank, Principal, DataStrategy LLC

Smarter RFID is leading to growth in some applications, such as vehicle tracking and food freshness, and even management of assets such as laundry.  But some of the hype from the Wal-Mart requirements and California drug e-pedigree legislation is dissipating: the technology is complicated and expensive,...

Meta-Metadata: Picture Info Starts to Make Sense | 10-03-2008
Author: Sharon Flank, Principal, DataStrategy LLC

Until visual image searching gets a lot better, you'll be relying on words (metadata) to find and make sense of your images, whether personal photos or a corporate image library.  Thousands of hours have been spent muddling toward standards, and it would take thousands more to get compete agreement. ...

Cuil vs. Google? Not Yet. | 07-30-2008
Analysis of: Former Google engineers launch new search engine | www.bizjournals.com
Author: Sharon Flank, Principal, DataStrategy LLC

Google is a behemoth, but it rules because it delivers better search results than the competition.  That's how Google got ahead, and that's how they are maintaining their lead, against Microsoft, Yahoo!, and everybody else.  Does the Cuil team have the magic to beat them at their own game?...

Citizen Photographers: Flickr's Opportunity with Getty Images | 07-23-2008
Analysis of: Flickr turns to Getty to sell amateur photos | www.usatoday.com
Author: Sharon Flank, Principal, DataStrategy LLC

Flickr photographers dream of the big break - and that big break is getting both attention and money for their images.  So Getty Images is giving substance to that dream.  Flickr was right to make the deal: it energizes their users and upgrades their offering with a new veneer of professional...

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