Monday, August 25, 2003

IBM and Social Software

IBM Takes Search to New Heights "Officials at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center here discussed with eWEEK this month how it is tackling the problem of understanding unstructured data. Using a combination of artificial intelligence techniques, IBM's UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) is the foundation for what Paul Horn, IBM senior vice president and director of research, calls "Google on steroids.""

Visualizing how wikis work "Visualizing how wikis work Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, in IBM's Collaborative User Experience lab have created a tool called historyflow that lets you see the history of a wiki page. The site has many of their observations on observed patterns, and more of mine are below."

Some great diagrams of collaboration at work.

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