Example: Automatic Assistant
Your own personal (digital) automatic assistant
knows about your preferences
builds up knowledge base using your past
can
combine
the local knowledge with remote services:
hotel reservations, airline preferences
dietary requirements
medical conditions
calendaring
etc
It communicates with
remote
information (ie, on the Web!)
(D. Dertouzos: “The Unfinished Revolution”)
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
© 1994-2004, W3C (MIT,ERCIM,Keio)
Brussels, 19 April, 2004
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