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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) recently hosted a series of Global Business Summits to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ICT Summit, held on 3 August 2012 at the British Business Embassy, was a well-attended and successful event which brought together technology leaders from across the globe to hear from and engage with UK businesses and industry leaders. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said, “London 2012 is the perfect stage to show investors and entrepreneurs how much we have already achieved, and the exciting potential of what is to come.”

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online marketing, sales, and support, has been recognized as a finalist in the 4th Annual 2012 Golden Bridge Awards in the software innovations category. 

“Each and every employee at VirtuOz is committed to delivering leading virtual agent solutions that exceed both our customers’ and their customers’ expectations,” said Alex LeBrun, CEO and president of VirtuOz.  “Today’s digital consumer is more demanding than ever, and we are privileged to partner with global industry leaders who are willing to explore new customer engagement frontiers in order to deliver winning customer experiences.  We are honored by the industry and peer recognition of our efforts that this Golden Bridge Award represents.”

The field of computational linguistics has a long list of unsolved problems that have been challenging linguists all around the world for decades now. Disciplines like Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Translation (MT), as well as speech technologies like Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS), despite having proved successful in the past few years, still lack the naturalness that is inherent to human communication.

Despite the advance of Twitter and Facebook, email is still the “killer” electronic communications medium particularly at work, where it long ago replaced the telephone as the preferred way for communicating between colleagues. But not all of the billions of emails handled each day by office workers are strictly work-related. According to a recent study, about 15% of the emails sent by corporate users contain information about a person or persons not among the recipients. In other words, they contain gossip.

The assignments are likely to be 2-3 months, possibly part-time.

The roles are:

- C# ASP.NET developer, to work primarily on the web based management/authoring tool for our chatbots. You need solid C# ASP.NET skills but the project is not over complex so would suit a more junior coder.
- Unity developer, with a focus on scripting/coding (C#) more than 3D design. Experience of deploying Unity on the web and for iOS/Android would also be highly desirable. May extend in to 2013.

Both roles are likely to start in mid/late September, and will be based at our offices in Birmingham, although some home working may be possible.

You must hold British citizenship and will be required to bring your passport to any initial interview.

Apply through http://www.daden.co.uk

Further details may be posted on our website in due course.

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online marketing, sales, and support, announced today that the company has been named a semi-finalist in CRM Idol 2012.  Now in its second year, the prestigious award program was founded by author and analyst Paul Greenberg to assist up and coming CRM companies gain visibility in the CRM community, and with key industry influencers.  Primary judges include notable CRM luminaries such as Brent Leary, Esteban Kolsky, Denis Pombriant, Jesus Hoyos, Laurence Buchanan, Mark Tamis and Silvana Buljan.