Friday June 02, 2006 |
Friday June 02, 2006 Slot Car or SPOT car?We finished the day by checking out a SPOT managed slot car. This combines Real Time Java with the Sun SPOT sensors to manage a slot track racing car. This is a development of this year's Jave One Slot Car Racing Programming Challenge, which has photo's and an excellent description of the demo. The sunweb Open House Page also has a picture. tags: Technology java SPOT SUNW sunlabs 
(2006-06-02 16:00:00.0) Permalink The E-PBXWe rushed past Steve Uhler's e-PBX demo, where he demo'd the conection via web services of a PBX, utilising the opensource PBX solution to the internet and offered a flavour of the new services this enables. tags: Technology telco e-pbx SUNW sunlabs
(2006-06-02 15:45:00.0) Permalink Searching for........We then popped into see two search projects. I saw the display of the Search inside the Music project, which is currently focusing on two areas: using acoustic similarity to help people find music that 'sounds similar' to music that they already like, and using social data to recommend and organize music based upon the listening habits of people with similar musical tastes. Some deeply interesting science (how do you define music as sounds alike?), plus leveraging a "wisdom of crowds (or networks). The 3D screen display is pretty cute too. (I need to have another look! ) I actually spent my time here talking to Steve Green, whose blog I occasionally read, but always with interest. He was demonstrating some technology from the Advanced Search Tecnologies project. The web page states that the mission of the Advanced Search Technologies project is to improve the ability of people to find and organize information in an enterprise setting and that the group is responsible for the Sun Labs Search Enginewhich ships as part of the Sun Java System Portal Server and Web Server. The demo showed a tool called the blurbalyzer which recommends (or sorts and groups) books based upon similarities in the book's published 'blurbs'. It's amazing the complexity of problem hidden in the single word, in this case "similarity". tags: Technology search audio heuristic SUNW sunlabs
(2006-06-02 15:00:00.0) Permalink There's a lot to know about peopleI arranged to meet Mark Bagley of BT to show him round the Labs. We rushed past Jim Waldo's Project Neuromancer, which demonstrates both the biometric interfaces and the elements of the network solution required to implement biometric telemetry systems, the key problems being those of scale, reliability, syncronicity and longevity. tags: Technology datastore longlife IT SUNW sunlabs scale biometrics
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