ArcelorMittal is the world's number one steel company, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ranks as the only truly global steelmaker.

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of telecommunications solutions and services, operating in 170 countries. BT’s portfolio of ICT services includes IP infrastructure, CRM, security, applications, managed mobility, hosting and outsourcing. In the financial year ending March 2005, BT’s total revenue for networked IT services was around €6 Billion, more than 20% of a total revenue of around €27 Billion.

Franz Inc. was founded in early 1984 as a vehicle to produce and sell Macsyma. While that never developed into a business, Franz Inc. did sell Franz Lisp while working on their own Common Lisp implementation. Franz Lisp died out in the 80s as Common Lisp became more popular. Today, they sell Allegro Common Lisp, which is a direct descendant of the Common Lisp they developed in the mid-80s, and a series of products like AllegroCache built on it.

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena was founded in 1558 as the State University of Thuringia, a role it serves until today. In 2006 FSU had an enrolment of more than 20.000 students in a wide area of subjects like medicine, biology, law, economics, mathematics, computer science and informatics, etc.

The Department of Computer Science and Informatics(CIS) was newly established in 1993 on the basis of existing competencies and professorships. The Department is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

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Hanival is a internet service provider with a strong research team in the area of semantic web services. The research makes it possible to keep our services and products always on the highest level and to pass the best technology and competent consulting to our customers. The R&D department collaborates in European projects with international research partners and enterprises on the topic of semantic web and on solutions in the area of data integration and payment transactions.

Lixto Software GmbH empowers better decisions by searching & aggregating information in real-time and delivering end-to-end connectivity solutions. The company’s solutions and services are used in metasearch, online market intelligence and web process integration, thus allowing companies and end users to achieve better and more structured results for their queries.