December 2010

The derivo GmbH has been founded this year by Thorsten Liebig and Olaf Noppens, known in the community as researchers from the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Universität Ulm, Germany. Racer Systems and derivo agree to partner in development and consulting projects. A first example of the cooperation is the further development of the OWLAPI and Protégé 4 adapter for RacerPro 2.0. For more information please read our Protégé page.

June 2009

The next official release of RacerPro can be previewed by the general public! Among other enhancements, the new version features syntactical support for the upcoming OWL 2 standard, OWLAPI and OWLlink support, integration of the AllegroGraph triple store of Franz Inc. and has been optimized so that even large knowledge bases such as SNOMED can be processed on ussual system configurations. RacerPro 2.0 is scheduled for release in 2010; in the meantime the preview software can be evaluated (the preview will expire by April 30, 2012).

May 2009

Dr. Michael Wessel of Racer Systems is one of the invited speakers at the Semantic Days 2009 in Stavanger, Norway, from 18th to 20th of May. The talk in the afternoon of the second day of the conference will cover advances with geotemporal reasoning capabilities in RDF and query techniques that include space, time and objects of interest.

February 2008

Racer Systems sponsors the 21st International Workshop on Description Logics which is held in Dresden, Germany this May.

June 2007

We attended the 2007 OWLED workshop and presented latest research results. E.g., design principles of our new Ontology Browsing and Inspection Tool named RacerPorter. The colleagues at the TUHH talked about optimization of instance retrieval systems.

May 2007

Franz Inc. participated as an exhibitor the Semantic Technology Conference 2007 in San Jose, CA, USA. They also showed RacerPro together with their RDF triple store AllegroGraph.

March 2007

Meet us at this years International Lisp Conference 2007 which will be held in Cambridge, UK from April 1-4, 2007.

March 2006

The people at STS Group of the TUHH demonstrate the results of their research work which is also based on RacerPro. Meet them during CeBIT 2006 on March 9 to 15 in exhibition hall 9, booth E09.
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Franz Inc. participated as an exhibitor the Semantic Technology Conference 2006 in San Jose, CA, USA. They also showed RacerPro.

January 2006

RacerManager, a development of Atila Kaya and others at the STS Group of the TUHH, is released and offers OWL-QL support for RacerPro following a web services oriented approach. Also load balancing with more than one RacerPro server can be implemented using this native tool for RacerPro.

December 2005

RacerPro version 1.9.0 released.

October 2005

Racer Systems participated the Semantic Web Days congress and exhibition which was held for the first time this year. About a hundred attendees crowded together to get an update on the latest developments in the area of knowledge representation and semantics-based information architecture and to discuss consequences as well as options for this innovative technology in economy. This event demonstrated the importance of the semantic-driven computing and of RacerPro as a core engine for processing OWL and RDF knowledge bases. Our demonstration focusses the deployment of RacerPro as an inference server to third-party applications. Therefore we showcased a Geographic Information System which utilizes RacerPro as a back-end server which holds the classified area information and individual map objects to process the query commands sent by the user front end application which graphically displays the results.

July 2005

RacerPro version 1.8.1 released.

June 2005

Racer Systems proudly releases the first commercial version 1.8.0 of RacerPro.

May 2005

Franz Inc., the Oakland, California (USA) based leading vendor of dynamic object-oriented development tools, and Racer Systems signed a mutual, long-term distribution agreement that enables each party to deliver complete knowledge-base and application development systems to customers. While Franz Inc. will be an exclusive distributor of the RacerPro system in the US and Canada as well as Australia, Japan, India, China, and other Asian countries, Racer Systems is designated to be the distributor for the Allegro Common Lisp development environment and other products of Franz Inc. in Europe.

April 2005

Racer Systems is happy to announce the agreement to a partnership with Halcom SpA, Italia. Halcom SpA will offer consulting and services in the Semantic Web domain to Italian customers.

January 2005

Racer Systems is a cooperating partner and sustaining member of the HiTec e.V (Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V.).

December 2004

Racer Systems gets iForce Partner status by Sun Microsystems.

September 2004

Google ranks Racer on third place in category Knowledge representation software, Ontologies.