Hi Dick, the current status on our student research is as following: I have a student who works on the LEGO thing, the hardware is all built up and the software part of the project starts tomorrow with a kickoff. Another student is working in his bachelor thesis on the "text analysis in information streams" topic. A bachelor thesis is not that big but I hope at least that we get some insights in what is possible and what not. He also should look at public available APIs (like opencalais and similar) and test them with microblogging-like texts.
I know from the akibot guys (akibot.com) that they want to go in a similar direction like us (supporting a ubiquitous microblogging scenario with their artificial intelligence microblogging bot). So this might be a good future collaboration opportunity, too. What I would do next is looking for a student who wants to work intensively on the SAP/ESME scenario. Give me a view weeks for that. Vassil has a good point here with the business value. We are all working in microblogging and therefore say "hey, tweeting SAP systems are really cool". However, "normal" people might not have this enthusiasm. Until we have real demo systems running little mockups (GUI prototypes) might do it. We have it on our agenda to create a #ubimic presentation where we state out the motivation and the benefits. I hope to give some answers to the business value topic in this presentation. Cheers Martin > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Richard Hirsch [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 23:28 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Collaboration with #ubimic > > Hi Martin, > > I see that you are doing some pretty cool stuff (for example, "Text > Analysis in Information Streams: Status Quo and Future Perspectives > (http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/wi2/wp/en/2009/08/10/text- > analysis-in-information-streams-status-quo-and-future-perspectives/)". > What about including a text analysis aspect to the collaboration? > > D. > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > > Like I said last week when we first found out about #ubimic, you seem > > to think along the same lines as the ESME team. So I can't find a any > > reason why we shouldn't cooperate. > > > > IMHO David has defined very well the differentiating characteristics > > of ESME: real-time responsiveness and actions. Actions also have some > > vague similarity to some Google Wave bots. More importantly, actions > > are important in many integration scenarios, which is the goal of > > ESME. > > > > What I'm eagerly awaiting is a description of some of the benefits of > > the "aggregated data from people and things" in different scenarios, > > but I guess that's one of the goals of the collaboration ideas, > right? > > > > Best Regards, > > Vassil > >
