NEW YORK, June 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) ("UBIC" or "the Company"), a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based big-data analysis services, announced today that it participated in the 2015 Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) as a platinum sponsor of the event, which was held from May 30 to June 2 at Future University Hakodate. In addition to explaining practical business applications of its proprietary AI technology, UBIC aimed to provide a better understanding of its business by describing the history of its technology development and its research and development operations.
Ever since its inception in 2003, UBIC set out to protect its customers' interests by quickly and accurately analyzing vast volumes of electronic data as an eDiscovery support vendor. Through the Company's cumulative experience supporting litigation and fraud investigation cases, it has been able to develop several practical applications of AI technology. In order to further improve its AI technology, the Company has established departments such as Advanced Data Analysis & Products and Behavior Informatics Laboratories. In recent years, UBIC has worked tirelessly to develop new businesses, because its AI technology can be applied to a broad range of business fields owing to its ability to incorporate human professionals' tacit knowledge through machine learning and quickly organize masses of data. At the UBIC exhibition booth in this conference, the Company mainly presented examples of the practical business applications of UBIC's AI technology.
In addition to participating in this conference, UBIC presented cases of practical AI applications at the 96th meeting of the Special Interest Group on Fundamental Problems of Artificial Intelligence, which was held in January this year. It has also become a registered supporting member of the JSAI. UBIC will continue to contribute to the development of the AI field through exchanges of information within the research community, including the JSAI, and joint research activities with new business partners.
About UBIC, Inc.
UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) supports the analysis of big data based on behavior informatics by utilizing its proprietary AI-based software program, "VIRTUAL DATA SCIENTIST" or VDS. Developed by UBIC based on knowledge acquired through its litigation support services, the VDS program incorporates experts' tacit knowledge, including their experiences and intuitions, and utilizes that knowledge for big data analysis. UBIC continues to expand its business operations by applying VDS to new fields such as healthcare and marketing.
UBIC was founded in 2003 as a provider of e-discovery and international litigation support services. These services include the preservation, investigation and analysis of evidence materials contained in electronic data, and computer forensic investigation. UBIC provides e-discovery and litigation support by making full use of its data analysis platform, "Lit i View®", and its Predictive Coding technology adapted to Asian languages.
For more information about UBIC, contact u-contact@ubic.co.jp or visit http://www.ubicna.com.
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