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Inside Innovation at...PARC
Ben Lorica, O'Reilly Radar, April 29, 2008
Excerpts from the article:
We were part of a group of journalists and bloggers invited to hear presentations from 10 different research groups within various parts of Xerox, PARC, and Fuji-Xerox. The format was similar to a science fair or a poster session in an academic conference with small groups moving around to hear presentations from the different projects. While other research labs use a large auditorium and parade different researchers in, I thought the smaller, science fair format made for better interactions between the visitors and the researchers.
We saw early prototypes created by the researchers themselves, so the user interfaces were far from polished. Here are some of the highlights from our visit:
Seamless Document Viewer...
Hybrid Categorization...
Erasable Paper
"Reusable paper" refers to paper coated with special materials and a custom printer that shoots UV light onto it. The resulting printed document is designed to fade within 24 hours and the paper can be reused and fed into the printer multiple (10+) times...
Intelligent Redaction
Redaction is the process of removing sensitive information from documents. Popular examples include government/intelligence documents released to the public and medical records. Text redaction is normally a tedious manual process that requires staff possessing significant domain expertise...
Other Notables
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