Quantum Teleportation

Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.

Medical Text Analysis System - Natural Language Processing

The Medical Text Analysis System (MedTAS) is a UIMA-based, modular and flexible system that uses advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to extract structured information from unstructured data sources, such as pathology reports, clinical notes, discharge summaries, and medical literature. MedTAS is also a development platform that is adaptable to customer and domain requirements. It has been designed to operate within institutional systems, and seamlessly integrates with IBM products, such as the DB2 Data warehouse.

Implementations of MedTAS have been developed for major medical institutions. MedTAS/P is a version customized for the pathology domain. It is based on a novel representation of cancer, its characteristics and disease progression.

SwiftFile - Artificial Intelligence

SwiftFile for Notes is an intelligent assistant for Lotus Notes that helps users organize their e-mail into folders. SwiftFile uses a text classifier to learn each user's mail-filing habits. SwiftFile uses the model it learns to predict the three folders in which the user is most likely to place each incoming message. The predictions are presented to the user as three shortcut buttons that allow the user to quickly file each message into one of the predicted folders. When one of SwiftFile's predictions is correct, the effort required to file a message is reduced to a single button click. An incremental classifier is used to allow SwiftFile to continuously update its model of the user.

We have performed a number of static and dynamic experiments with SwiftFile as well as some initial user studies. The results show that the shortcut buttons provided by SwiftFile are useful between 80% to 90% of the time, and this performance level is maintained over time despite the constantly-changing classification problem. We also find that the bootstrap period for the classifier is extremely short and that SwiftFile is useful from the moment it is first installed.

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