i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

 In today's lecture, Bob mentioned the differences between traditional linguistic and statistical approaches to language processing.  In my undergraduate linguistics major, I studied both syntax and "grammar engineering," for which we had to construct representations like the one below.  If anyone ever had to diagram sentences in middle or high school, it's kind of like that on steroids: 

Marc Hedlund, co-founder of Wesabe, recently wrote a blog post offering insight into why Wesabe failed and its competitor, Mint, succeeded. The two web applications, which launched within a year of each other, both aimed to help users manage their personal finances. While Wesabe enabled users to tag stores and transactions and took a more community-oriented approach, Mint automatically categorizes information as it is imported from various financial institutions.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-health-update.html