New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Selects relevantNOISE for Technology Fellowship Program

Fellowships retain high-tech talent, support emerging business.

(PRWEB) November 5, 2005 -- The New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology recently named relevantNOISE as one of the first New Jersey Technology Fellowship partnerships.

The Commission’s New Jersey Technology Fellowship program offers technology-based firms $50,000 to hire selected post-doctoral graduates from New Jersey research universities, moving cutting-edge research from the lab to the marketplace.

“The New Jersey Technology Fellowship program fulfills several of the Commission’s goals,” said Donald Drakeman, chairman of the Commission. “These Fellowships will encourage collaborations between our research universities and our business community, provide needed talent to New Jersey’s entrepreneurial companies and help convert innovation into commercial products.”

relevantNOISE™ is a technology company dedicated to mining web logs, or blogs, for business intelligence. Using proprietary data mining, natural language processing, and tone extraction technologies, relevantNOISE helps clients monitor the quickly growing “blogosphere” in real time to track the level of volume around key topic areas – including industry, brands, products, executives, and competitors. The company further assists clients by determining whether those conversations are positive or negative and how that changes over time.

relevantNOISE is pleased to be working with Rutgers PhD candidate Songmei Yu. Yu’s studies in data mining will greatly benefit the startup as it continues to develop and strengthen its product line.

“We’re excited about adding Songmei Yu to our team,” says Dan Lynn, CEO of relevantNOISE. “Without this program, it would difficult to attract and retain such strong talent – especially in a highly specialized field like ours – to work in startup technology ventures.”

For more information about the New Jersey Technology Fellowship program, contact the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology 609-984-1671 or www.state.nj.us/scitech.

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