Experience

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  Synthexis

  • President

    • Dec 2012 - Present

  • President and founder

    • Dec 2012 - Present

    Synthexis is a consulting firm that tracks trends at the nexus of information, technology and market demand. The company offers strategic advisory services for the search and content analytics industry and for buyers of these technologies. Sue Feldman, a search industry expert, designs clear, concise marketing messages, clearly written documents and marketing materials, speeches and advice on networking and alliances. The firm also offers survey design services. For the Synthexis blog or more information on Synthexis, and on Sue's book, The Answer Machine, see www.synthexis.com.

  • President, Synthexis;Co-founder, Managing Director, Cognitive Computing Consortium

    • 2012 - Present

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  Cognitive Computing Consortium

  • Co Founder, Managing Director

    • 2015 - Present

    The Cognitive Computing Consortium promotes the advancement of adoption and innovation in cognitive computing (CC). This neutral forum combines researchers, vendors, and practitioners of cognitive computing and its allied technologies. The Consortium’s mission is to exchange ideas and insight, and conduct research on the technologies, their uses, the market for, and the impacts that cognitive computing will have as it becomes widely adopted. The Consortium generatesunbiased thought leadership with the goal of advancing this emerging technology.

  • Research Director

    • Jan 2014 - Present

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  IDC

  • Framingham, MA

  • VP for Search and Discovery Technologies

    • 2000 - Oct 2012
    • Framingham, MA

    Initiated coverage or search, content management and content analytics markets and technologies. Wrote forecasts and analyzed trends in these markets. Initiated research on the digital marketplace and collaborated on research on unified information access and big data. Managed the content technologies group at IDC, covering search engines, text analytics, translation software and related linguistically based technologies. Research examples: "High cost of not finding information", Simulations of advertising revenue flow in "Modeling the Digital Marketplace", forecasts of markets, webcasts, speeches on these topics. Spent 20 years as President of Datasearch before coming to IDC. Winner of a number of national and international awards.

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  Datasearch

  • President

    • 1981 - 2000

    An information consulting company specializing in digital libraries, search technologies, natural language processing. Clients were typically large government agencies or small start up technology firms.