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DARPA is funding work toward a vision that “a cognitive computer system should be able to learn from its experience, as well as by being advised. It should be able to explain what it was doing and why it was doing it, and to recover from mental blind alleys. It should be able to reflect on what goes wrong when an anomaly occurs, and anticipate such occurrences in the future. It should be able to reconfigure itself in response to environmental changes. And it should be able to be configured, maintained, and operated by nonexperts.” CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) and RADAR are projects funded by DARPA toward this end.
CALO Web site. http://caloproject.sri.com
RADAR Web site. http://www.radar.cs.cmu.edu
DevonThink:
DevonThink Web page. http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink
Oakes, Chris. 2004. “Software Makes a Tiger of Panther.” Wired (July 6).
DSpace is “an open-source platform for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works. Developed by MIT Libraries and HP Labs, DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs, and data sets in an institutional repository.” “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”
Dspace Web site. http://www.dspace.org
Naone, Erica. 2007. “DSpace Goes Olympic.” Technology Review (Nov ember/December).
Sharing information about repairing Xerox copiers:
Bobrow, D. G., and J. Whalen. 2002. “Community Knowledge Sharing in Practice: The Eureka Story.” Reflections, the SOL Journal 4, issue 2 (Winter): 47-59.
To be productive with your e-memories you must employ Personal Information Management (PIM). There is some great research being done on the topic.
Jones, William. 2008. Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies). Burlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufman.
Jones, William, and Jaime Teevan, eds. 2007. Personal Information Management. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu
An overview and primer about the nature and organization of information includes descriptions of the Dewey Decimal systems and facets:
Wright, Alex. 2007. Glut: Managing Information Through the Ages. Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
5. HEALTH
A number of facts cited in this chapter came from presentations at the 2007 New Paradigms in Using Computers (NPUC) workshop. We used information from Dr. Paul Tang, chief medical information officer for Sutter Health, Elizabeth Mynatt of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peter Miller of Vanderbilt HealthTech Laboratory,
NPUC 2007 Web page. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/npuc2007
Some other sources on electronic health records:
“VA’s Electronic Patient Records Are a Model to Industry.” United States Department of Veterans Affairs press release, http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1277
“Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually; Report Offers Comprehensive Strategies for Reducing Drug-Related Mistakes.” National Academies press release, July 20, 2006, http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem. aspx?RecordID=11623 (refers to the following reference)
Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors (author), Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett (eds.). 2007. Preventing Medication Errors. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
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