More From Xerox PARC’s Rich Legacy
by
Randy Mears
As if the Graphical User Interface, Ethernet, laser printing and object-oriented computing weren’t a rich enough legacy, Xerox PARC continues to impact the evolution of information technology with contributions to modern search engines. According to this article, a company drawing from PARCs 30 years of linguistic research is poised to offer an innovative natural-language search engine that extracts deep concepts and relationships from both target texts and query texts.
Though search engines like Google and Yahoo use some components of natural-language search the article claims that this could be the first full-scale solution. With Web 3.0 emerging, the timing couldn’t be better.
