Raytheon BBN Technologies

Third Annual MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards Recognize Outstanding Technology Advancements in New England Region

Boston, Mass., May 22, 2006 — BBN Technologies, a leading advanced technology and research and development firm, today announced that it has been named as a finalist for the 3^rd Annual MITX Technology Awards. The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) is the region's premier association for thought leadership, technology trends, business networking and professional training and development

The BBN Broadcast Monitoring System creates a continuous searchable archive of international television broadcasts. The system automatically transcribes the real-time audio stream and translates it into English. Both the transcript and translation are searchable and synchronized to the video, providing powerful capabilities for effective retrieval and precise playback of the video based on its speech content. With this revolutionary system, users can sift through vast collections of news content in other languages quickly and efficiently.

"The interface allows you to quickly search for specific spoken content in the video archive through keyword queries in English or Modern Standard Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Western Hemisphere Spanish," said Mark Sherman, vice president, at BBN Technologies. "You can interact with the system from any PC or laptop via a common high-speed IP network and it doesn't require any hardware setup, software installation, or onsite administration or maintenance."

"In its third year, the MITX Technology Awards have attracted some of the most distinguished technological innovations that the region has to offer," said Kiki Mills, Executive Director of MITX. "It is this tremendous interest that enables our organization to accomplish its mission of uniting the brightest minds in the technology community and honoring their outstanding achievement."

BBN Technologies will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Communications/Collaboration Application at an awards ceremony attended by the region's top technology and business professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. This year's keynote speaker and special honoree is Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, esteemed author and founder and Chairman of the non-profit association One Laptop per Child.

The ceremony is preceded by the What's Next Forum, a panel discussion moderated by Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review. The topic, What's Next for the Social Web, will be a forward-looking discussion about the next platforms and paradigms to shape the social web.

The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards are sponsored by Backbone Media, Lewis PR, Nixon Peabody LLP, Oracle, and Technology Review.

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