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Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures - Real Time: ALIPR

This interesting image recognizer is being developed by James Wang at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. You can either upload your own image, or give it an image URL. It analyzes the content of the file, and not the file name.
It seemed to work okay at the demo. […]

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Brewster Kahle at Museums and the Web 2007

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive gave a great keynote talk at Museums and the Web in San Francisco. He’s completely convinced that the technological issues of archiving everything - texts, images, audio, video, software, etc. - and archiving them forever, are ‘doable.’ The main barriers to doing this are (yup) lack of social, legal, […]

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