Public Display, a Providence-based startup, has embarked on a research-intensive technology project with the mission of collecting various kinds of unstructured information from the Web and organizing it into a structured and useful format. During the presentation, we’ll learn a bit about the field of Information Extraction, witness the first public demonstration of one of their apps, and hear about some lessons learned in their attack of this extraordinarily difficult problem – including some geek-speak about Ruby and Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine.