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InfoVision 2005 begins in city

Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE: The evolving information society has created a challenge akin to separating wheat from chaff: How to retrieve the knowledge buried under a deluge of unstructured information. This was the central message carried away by delegates at the first two-day global information industry-academia summit, InfoVision 2005, which opened here on Thursday.

In his keynote speech, Ronald Larsen, Dean, School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, U.S., suggested a technology wish list for the near future that would address this challenge. "We are used to computer spell checkers. What about a fact checker that would correct the errors of fact, in what we write? Like DWIM — the name of a programming language of yesteryear — smart systems should `Do What I Mean', rather than what I ask, by being aware of what I already know. Data capture is so `yesterday'. What one needs tomorrow, is intelligent data extraction, using machine recognition of one's intentions, a `bias' removing filter — and multilingual translation capability."

Nick Moore, Chairman of the U.K.-based Acumen Consulting, warned that under the tide of so-called "convergence" technologies, the cultural diversities of individual nations could be eroded.

Orissa's Chief Secretary Subas Pani, who while with the Election Commission was credited with driving a number of information technology initiatives, said providing citizen services while managing their information requirements were the twin challenges before Indian States.

Karnataka's IT Secretary M.K. Shankarlinge Gowda spoke.

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