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November 2009 - Writ of Hapaxeas Corpus

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  • The First Search Engine?

    Do you remember which search engine came first? Back in days of the turn of the century, we at Hapax (the mother company of OpenAmplify) were focused on creating our search engine: The FindEngine™, an NLP-based Question-Answering system. Back then...
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  • Amping the Tube

    Google recently announced that they are adding (highly) experimental support for automatic captions in YouTube videos. The captions are added using Google's own speech-to-text technology, and will initially only be available for a few selected partner...

  • 2009 Semantic Web Challenge

    From http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01355 -- winners of the SW Challenge. Especially interesting is "Scalable Reduction", which promises help in dealing with huge collections of harvested RDF data that...

  • Microsoft Patents Sudo?

    Picked up from a Groklaw report from November 11 2009: "Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo..." Sudo is a command that enables a user to input a password to do a task the user doesn't...
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  • Where were you at 11:49 a.m. on October 17?

    Oh, you can't really remember straight away? Hmm, was October 17 a work day or not? Chances are that somebody, or something, remembers it for you. The New York Times recently wrote about a young man suspected of robbery whose alibi was supported by...

  • Crowd-sourcing, cell phones, and the like

    http://www.mobilebehavior.com/2009/11/05/trend-stealth-crowdsourcing/ has a nice (if brief) discussion of the phenomenon that our fancy new cell phones can do crowd-sourcing at enormous scale. A modern phone can collect all kinds of data: GPS location;...
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