Xerox Opens Virtual Research Lab

itwbennett writes "It's nothing like the glory days of Xerox PARC, but still there are some interesting projects in Xerox's new Open Xerox website. Copyfinder, for example, takes an electronic document and returns the URLs pointing to it, to different versions of the document, and to related documents. Trailmeme is a new publishing tool that allows readers to navigate stories in both Web-like and book-like ways. And the Arabic Morphological Analyzer accepts modern standard Arabic words and returns morphological analysis and English notation. As of Thursday, 15 research projects were posted at Open Xerox, and the company has another 70 projects in the pipeline, said Victor Ciriza, lab manager at the Xerox Research Centre Europe."

Did they invite

[rossdee]

Steve Jobs to come and steal their ideas?

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[VynlSol]

We're - all - dying, chief.

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[Xacid]

+Insightful. -Depressing.

I'm not dead yet!

[PolygamousRanchKid]

We're - all - dying, chief.

I think I'll go for a walk!

I don't want to go on the cart!

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[djdanlib]

He says he's not dead!

Well, he won't be long.

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[e9th]

Would Bernstein let Jobs in the PARC facilities today? That view that Xerox/PARC didn't capitalize enough on its breakthroughs is common. For instance, Jason Perlow said I should ask whether PARC would let Steve Jobs in the building since a lot of those PARC ideas built Apple. "It would be great to have Steve come over," quipped Bernstein. "I'd just have to be careful about what I showed him."

Larry Dignan interviewing then Xerox/PARC chief Mark Bernstein last November. [smartplanet.com]

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[the_womble]

If Jobs had not gone over, no one would have made use of those ideas. They would have appeared on some Xerox machine that hardly anyone bought.

Apple did pay Xerox.

What a concept...

[msauve]

Copyfinder, for example, takes an electronic document and returns the URLs pointing to it

If they simply took that one step further, and counted the number of URLs to create a "ranking," they'd have a great search engine. It's a wonder no one has thought of that before.

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[davidbrit2]

Well, they'd have to invent some kind of world-wide web of connected computers first in order for it to be of any value, and that sounds like a lot of work.

Virtual Xerox machine

[sourcerror]

Yeah, I tried it: you send it a document and it sends back the original and a copy.

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[penguin_punk]

What's the quality of the copies like?

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[the_womble]

I like your sig, but surely you mean "Hurd is Unending Research & Development"

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[sourcerror]

Whoosh

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[rwise2112]

Virtually identical?

Virtual Research?

[c0lo]

What type of results one can derive from virtual research?

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[h4rr4r]

It's virtually limitless, virtually any kind.

Copyfinder -

[Xacid]

could be an interesting new tool to catch plagiarism.

Interesting Terms of Service!!

[shanmuha]

http://open.xerox.com/Pages/Terms%20Of%20Service [xerox.com] " 4. Your Materials You shall be solely responsible for any content or applications that you make available directly or indirectly on this Site ("Your Materials") ... For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in Your Materials. However, by placing Your Materials on this Site or making Your Materials available through this Site (for example, by linking or through an API) you specifically give Xerox the following permission: you hereby grant Xerox a

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[hpoirier]

Please note that the language cited contemplates allowing users to create their own services and to make available their “content” and “applications” through the site.