Now this is keen. An online repository of documents in computer science (and allied), replete with tools to browse citations and cross citations, referrals and rankings.
Of course, it's from a Research Institute, isn't it....
I mean, say what you will about MSFT, but their research team consistently puts out some nifty stuff. Why shouldn't NEC's also?
'Course, it does beg the question of what Apple's been doing in the research area of late. Is there anything to match the vision (if not execution in all cases) of things like cyberdog, opendoc or the flythrough filesystem browser?
Posted by esinclai at February 02, 2003 08:57 PM |
Apple seems to have a pretty smart strategy (from a business perspective). Rather than doing pure research like Microsoft does, they just snarf the open source version and use it instead. Darwin, Safari, and some of the .mac tools all seem to share this trend.
Having said that, it often seems that some of their products are research. The Newton, the Cube - ideas whose practicality hadn't been tested.