Interfaces Quotes

In and of itself UIMA does not extract knowledge. It provides interfaces, provides a common framework that enables you to plug and play various technologies to extract knowledge and incorporate it into enterprise business applications and intelligence applications.

We`re very impressed with the multi-service flexibility, performance, and outstanding voice quality of Convedia`s media server products. Convedia`s Media Servers were a natural fit to improve the underlying media processing capabilities of our media resource product suite. And with their use of open standards-based SIP control interfaces, we`ve been able to quickly and easily integrate their technology into our next-generation product portfolio. We`re looking forward to utilizing Convedia`s Media Servers in a number of our largest IP telephony infrastructure opportunities.

In the short term, say 10 years, many such standards will be industry standards rather than formal ISO or IEEE standards, but it is essential for the software industry`s health that key interfaces be well-specified and publicly available.

First, I`d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.