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Xerox Opens Virtual Research Lab

Posted by timothy on from the derriere-duplication-demystified dept.

itwbennett writes "It's nothing like the glory days of Xerox PARC, but still there are some interesting projects in Xerox's new Open Xerox website. Copyfinder, for example, takes an electronic document and returns the URLs pointing to it, to different versions of the document, and to related documents. Trailmeme is a new publishing tool that allows readers to navigate stories in both Web-like and book-like ways. And the Arabic Morphological Analyzer accepts modern standard Arabic words and returns morphological analysis and English notation. As of Thursday, 15 research projects were posted at Open Xerox, and the company has another 70 projects in the pipeline, said Victor Ciriza, lab manager at the Xerox Research Centre Europe."

19 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Did they invite by rossdee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steve Jobs to come and steal their ideas?

    1. Re:Did they invite by VynlSol · · Score: 1

      We're - all - dying, chief.

    2. Re:Did they invite by Xacid · · Score: 1

      +Insightful. -Depressing.

    3. Re:Did they invite by e9th · · Score: 1

      Would Bernstein let Jobs in the PARC facilities today? That view that Xerox/PARC didn't capitalize enough on its breakthroughs is common. For instance, Jason Perlow said I should ask whether PARC would let Steve Jobs in the building since a lot of those PARC ideas built Apple. "It would be great to have Steve come over," quipped Bernstein. "I'd just have to be careful about what I showed him."

      Larry Dignan interviewing then Xerox/PARC chief Mark Bernstein last November.

    4. Re:Did they invite by the_womble · · Score: 1

      If Jobs had not gone over, no one would have made use of those ideas. They would have appeared on some Xerox machine that hardly anyone bought.

      Apple did pay Xerox.

  2. What a concept... by msauve · · Score: 1

    Copyfinder, for example, takes an electronic document and returns the URLs pointing to it

    If they simply took that one step further, and counted the number of URLs to create a "ranking," they'd have a great search engine. It's a wonder no one has thought of that before.

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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
    1. Re:What a concept... by davidbrit2 · · Score: 1

      Well, they'd have to invent some kind of world-wide web of connected computers first in order for it to be of any value, and that sounds like a lot of work.

  3. Virtual Xerox machine by sourcerror · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I tried it: you send it a document and it sends back the original and a copy.

    1. Re:Virtual Xerox machine by penguin_punk · · Score: 1

      What's the quality of the copies like?

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      HURD - Hurd's Under Research & Development
    2. Re:Virtual Xerox machine by the_womble · · Score: 1

      I like your sig, but surely you mean "Hurd is Unending Research & Development"

    3. Re:Virtual Xerox machine by sourcerror · · Score: 1

      Whoosh

    4. Re:Virtual Xerox machine by rwise2112 · · Score: 1

      Virtually identical?

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      "For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
  4. Virtual Research? by c0lo · · Score: 1

    What type of results one can derive from virtual research?

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    Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
    1. Re:Virtual Research? by h4rr4r · · Score: 2

      It's virtually limitless, virtually any kind.

  5. Copyfinder - by Xacid · · Score: 2

    could be an interesting new tool to catch plagiarism.

  6. I'm not dead yet! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

    We're - all - dying, chief.

    I think I'll go for a walk!

    I don't want to go on the cart!

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    Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
    1. Re:I'm not dead yet! by djdanlib · · Score: 1

      He says he's not dead!

      Well, he won't be long.

  7. Interesting Terms of Service!! by shanmuha · · Score: 1

    http://open.xerox.com/Pages/Terms%20Of%20Service " 4. Your Materials You shall be solely responsible for any content or applications that you make available directly or indirectly on this Site ("Your Materials") ... For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in Your Materials. However, by placing Your Materials on this Site or making Your Materials available through this Site (for example, by linking or through an API) you specifically give Xerox the following permission: you hereby grant Xerox a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licenseable and fully transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works of, publish, display, and perform Your Materials, in public, in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant users accessing Your Materials on this Site a non-exclusive license to access Your Materials for personal, non-commercial use. .... "

    1. Re:Interesting Terms of Service!! by hpoirier · · Score: 1

      Please note that the language cited contemplates allowing users to create their own services and to make available their “content” and “applications” through the site.