Haystack: A More Compelling View Of Your Data

Peristaltic writes "MIT's Haystack project has released the source for it's "Universal Information Client", Haystack. In their words: 'Haystack looks into the use of artificial intelligence techniques for analyzing unstructured information and providing more accurate retrieval.' Unlike some attempts I've seen in the past to pull it all together on my desktop, Haystack shows some promise -- One of it's more useful features allows you to take the information you've been wallowing through, and have Haystack continually refine a 'dynamic hierarchy' until you get what you need. Haystack also performs some neat tricks such as combining Email, IM, web pages, etc. into a single inbox."

Comments

WHAT???

[Justin205]

What does this mean? I'm confuzzled... Hmmm... E-mail, webpages and IM into one inbox... Wait a second, IM in an INBOX? IM is INSTANT MESSAGING. How will this work?

Re:Awesome Mozilla effect.

[arvindn]

No, mozilla renders it properly. The relevant code is this:

<div style="background-attachment: fixed; background-image: url(http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/images/cover.png); width: 520px; height: 370px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"></div>

So it is supposed to be stationary. Also notice that you don't see the whole image in IE.

Whoever designed the page must be really geeky if they don't care about it working correctly in MSIE :-)

Dying for a torrent here.

[Sanga]

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