Final

Assigned: 
December 12, 2011
Due: 
December 12, 2011 - 12:00

people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/202/202FinalExam2011.doc

people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~glushko/202/202FinalExam2011.txt

Turkey.. food or country?

Scan, Learn, and Buy from your phone

Bob was talking about how my retailers are struggling with users ability to scan the barcodes of their products and compare their pricing to competitor products. While many are resisting the change and struggling with the new technology, stores like apple are embracing this new trend making it easier for customers to find, compare, and purchase products right from their mobile device. This makes it easier for customers to make purchases and reduces the overhead required by the retailer, a win win situation and the future of retailing. 

An ATM In Cyberspace

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.

Recipelabs: Searching or Organizing?

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.

Why Kids Can't Search

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.

Lessons in DIY: Post-Punk Archives and Twitter History Reenactments

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

Does Google Make Us Stupid?

Several recent articles have talked about the effects Google has on our thinking. As we talk about IR, we should consider the impact the systems we design might have on the way people think.

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