Cognitive Technologies

Organisation type:

 Private company  

Affiliation:

 The office of the company is in the building of the Institute for System analysis  

Mailing address:

 117312, Russia, Moscow, Pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 9, No. 709.
Cognitive Technologies Ltd.		  

Phone:

 (+7095) 135¬5088, 135¬5510

E-mail:

 info@cgntv.dol.ru  

Fax:

 (+7095) 135¬5088

URL:

 http://www.cognitive.ru  
Head: Vladimir L’vovich ARLAZAROV  

Phone:

 (+7095) 135¬5357

E-mail:

 arl@cgntv.dol.ru  

Fax:

 (+7095) 135¬5088
Other members of the team:  
  Olga A. Uskova, Nikolaj N. Nikolskij, Dmitrij S. Bogdanov  

Total staff:

 > 150  

Activities description:

 The company was founded in 1993 but the team worked together before. Since the middle of 80s it developed image-processing technologies in the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence managed by Vladimir Arlazarov in the Institute for System Studies (later renamed as institute for System Analysis) of Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1970s Arlazarov’s laboratory developed "Kaissa" (the first world chess computer champion) and DBMS «INES» for IBM 360/370-compatible mainframes (2000 installations in the largest government offices of the Soviet Union). Early in 1990s the team developed OCR Tiger and CuneiForm that are widely marketed even now. Due to the academic background and good working connections in the academic community, Cognitive Technologies has a real possibility to collaborate with eminent researchers who contribute the results of their high-level R&D for company products. Since the middle of 1990s, Cognitive Technologies works in speech technologies. It has developed tools to deal with phonetic and acoustic data, and accumulated a significant amount of phonetic data, organised on the basis of acoustic-dependent structuring of phonetic dictionaries. From the current systems for recognition of discrete speech with a limited dictionary, the company plans to proceed to recognition of connected speech.  
List of products and prototypes:  
 
  1. System for discrete speech recognition
  2. SpeechLab – tool for analysis of speech signals
  3. CuneiForm – OCR system for printed and type-written texts
  4. MacTiger – OCR system for MacIntosh
  5. Database of speech fragments, for Russian and English languages
  
Joint projects, co-operation:  
  With Oracle Corp, Seiko Epson, Brother Corp., Corel Corp., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rank Xerox, Samsung, Lotus Development, LVS, Packard Bell.  

Notes:

 The company Cognitive Technologies works also as system integrator. It was the first company in Eastern Europe who got the status of Oracle Complementary Software Provider.