Transcript Motivation for Internet Research

Internet Research
Outrageous goals are now
Reachable
• Google's mission: Organize the world's
information and make it universally
accessible and useful.
• Brewster Kahle of Internet Archive says it
this way:
The Goal
Universal
Access
to
all
Human
Knowledge
Vannevar Bush, 1945
If scientific reasoning were limited
to the logical processes of
arithmetic, we should not get very
far in our understanding of the
physical world. One might as well
attempt to grasp the game of
poker entirely by the use of the
mathematics of probability.
Dream
Douglas Engelbart: 'I
confess that I am a
dreamer. Someone once
called me "just a
dreamer." That offended
me, the "just" part; being
a real dreamer is hard
work. It really gets hard
when you start believing
your dreams.
Ted Nelson
His Four Maxims: 'Most
people are fools, most
authority is malignant,
god does not exist,
and everything is
wrong.'
Incredible Advances
(Stone Age)
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Ebay
Amazon
Google’s Page Rank
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
Peer-to-Peer
Recent Incredibles
• Grid Computing,e.g., SETI@HOME
Web Services and Software Agents
• Google API
• Amazon API
Image and Video Search
• Google's Image Search
• Yahoo's Video Search
Everything On-Line
• Research papers: Google Scholar
• Books:
– Amazon's Search Inside This Book
– Amazon’s citations
– Google's plan to scan all books
Collaborative Systems
and Social Computing
• Blogs
• Wikis
Internet Democracy
• The World Live Web
• Howard Dean’s
Campaign
Personalized Search
• Google Personalized
Search
Semantic Web
Do you have a garage?