John R. Smith

Manager, Intelligent Information Management Department

Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)

John R. Smith is Senior Manager of the Intelligent Information Management Department at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He leads a research department addressing technical challenges in database systems and information management.  His team includes the Database Research Group and Intelligent Information Analysis Group. Dr. Smith's department is exploring new techniques for indexing, analyzing, fusing, searching and exploiting large repositories of structured data and unstructured information in various scientific and business contexts.

 

Recent novel investigations of the department include:

• MARVEL Multimedia Search Engine
• Statistical and Semantic Multimedia Content Analysis
• Information Integration and Business Intelligence
• Semi-structured and Unstructured Data Access (including XML)
• Efficient Data Access Methods for RDBMS
• Ontologies, Metadata Management and MPEG-7
• Content adaptation and MPEG-21

Last updated 24 Jul 2006