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Technology & Knowledge Forum A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies

Technology & Knowledge Forum A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies. Darlene Fichter darlene.fichter@usask.ca. March 12, 2003. Computers in Libraries 2003. Outline. Technologies that: will transfer knowledge will not allow us to transfer knowledge.

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Technology & Knowledge Forum A Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies

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  1. Technology & Knowledge ForumA Look at Dead & Emerging Technologies Darlene Fichter darlene.fichter@usask.ca March 12, 2003 Computers in Libraries 2003

  2. Outline • Technologies that: • will transfer knowledge • will not allow us to transfer knowledge

  3. Standard line up we could talk about • Becoming Mainstream • Blogs • RSS • LiveRef • XML ++ to the semantic web

  4. On the way out • Banner ads • Popup ads • Instead Large Rich Media ads

  5. Dark side of the net • Stalking • Scams • Junk • Spam • Misinformation

  6. Knowledge • Information • Data • Bits & Bytes • Only knowledge IF • Trust it • Find it • Ingest it

  7. Current Trend • Dining on junk food • Slogging though electronic garbage • Flooded by junk mail More bits, less bytes

  8. Yesterday • Bookmarks worked! • Email as the killer application rules no more! • Instant messaging • Standard email clients DON’T work • Spam • Scale • Square peg in round hole • Can we save EMAIL? Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play …

  9. Finding it – discarding stuff • Stop the on slot of ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivia • No garbage collectors in cyberspace • Don’t have any friendly “gnomes” working on my desktop either

  10. Addressing the challenges of Infloglut • More filters • Spam Assassin slows the on slot • Bottom up architecture approaches • Post processing

  11. Addressing …finding 2. More techniques for mining terabytes of text, video, audio information • Visualization will emerge as stronger and stronger ways to explore and navigate complex information spaces • Antarcti.ca Visual Net

  12. Integrity and trust • Security and authority • Digital signatures – you are who you say you are • PKZIP 6.0 uncompresses and encrypts • BigFix Enterprise Suite • Find and plug the security holes in the dike

  13. Stuff I’ve Seen • Email, desktop, web • My personal “wayback” machine • Wayback Machine • www.archive.org Microsoft Research

  14. Stuff I Need to Forget! • Self cleaning desktop • Garbage dump (mental & electronic) for ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial

  15. Stuff I Need to Remember • Memory “Landmarks” • Associate information with key events like holidays, birthdays etc. for retrieval Microsoft Research

  16. Until They Get Perfect in the Lab • Web based citation management • RefWorks • www.refworks.com • Citation Manager (COPPUL) • http://stalefish.lib.sfu.ca/CitationManager

  17. Gadgets • QuickLink Pen • Translator Pen You’re just too good to be true, I can’t take my eyes off of you, You’d be like heaven to touch

  18. Collect content • QuickLink Pen • enables you to scan up to 1000 pages transfer it to a computer, PDA or cell phone

  19. Translate language • Very small scanner/translators

  20. Knowledge • So far, for dead tech night you might think these topics were a bit boring • Integrity, reliability, findability Sometimes, girls just want to have fun!

  21. TerraPlayer • Wireless digital juke box • Up to 50,000 songs • www.terraplayer.com Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona

  22. Mok Reality Editor • Image editing software transform 2D to 3D • www.mok3.com Demo Show Scottsdale, Arizona

  23. References • From Demo: 10 technologies to watch • www.siliconvalley.com • Microsoft ‘science fair’ offers glimpse of technology’s future • www.usatoday.com/

  24. Thanks • Darlene.Fichter@usask.ca

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