Thursday, January 15, 2004

Language tools for fight on terror

Software to allow security officials to better search and translate documents in foreign languages, especially Arabic, has been demonstrated at a technology show in Las Vegas.

Sunday, January 04, 2004

A Fountain of Knowledge: 2004 will be the year of the analysis engine

The great strength of computers is that they can reliably manipulate vast amounts of data very quickly. Their great weakness is that they don’t have a clue as to what any of that data actually means. Computer scientists have been laboring for decades to eliminate that weakness, with some limited successes in some limited domains. Now, IBM Corp. appears to have made a major breakthrough in the field of machine understanding. [WebFountain's site]