i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Google has integrated a new search feature into Google Search which it calls Translated Search.

And now, a word about DEVONthink. They describe it as a "smart information assistant", although you could think of it as a sort of MyResearchBits.

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/annals/extras/cardsvol24...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3688900.html

Inventor Wayne L. Wanous might be surprised that his invention, the APPARATUS FOR SORTING AND RETRIEVING CARDS, was mentioned in Bob's class today.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3688900.pdf

As context, there was a question in class regarding whether IR systems existed before the computer. Evidently, old-timey librarians had been at it for quite some time.