Info 202 Fall 2011

Article - IBM Watson to Battle Patent Trolls

For nearly 20 years, onboard computing technology has been at the core of the automated teller machine (ATM). But today, Diebold, Incorporated is leveraging virtualization technology to introduce a prototype for the world's first virtualized ATM . . . Diebold developed the virtualized ATM prototype in collaboration with VMware.

Not quite from a mainstream news
source, but I recently came across a fun webapp on reddit called www.recipelabs.com . While I consider it far from a proper product, it employs some
really interesting techniques for organization and retrieval.

According to a recent Wired magazine article, reporter Clive Thompson speculate why high schoolers and college students are inept at searching on Google, despite the website's sophisticated PageRank algorithm. Frances Harris, a librarian at the University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois, educates eighth and ninth graders in how to format nuanced queries in Boolean logic, much like what we had covered in recent lectures. She also teaches them to analyze the tone of a web page to judge whether it was created by a credible source.

I saw these two articles via
nytimes.com both pertaining to interesting implementations of
archives that give new life to events long past. The first article
discussed Fugazi's endeavors to make available all their live
performances from their entire career. Apparently the band are great
documentarians and obsessively recorded every live performance they