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Search information technology on the Internet keeps improving, and now a free service called Semantic MEDLINE has just been released. This new important tool for researchers in the medical and biotech community uses Semantic Natural Language Processing technology which saves users hours hunting for desired documents within complex content. This technology adds word and phrase meaning and “understanding” to computer applications, enabling them to be more human-like in their processing of information.

Another aspect of the importance of online information access involves parent participation impacting student achievement. A newly released survey of U.S. parents with one or more children in K-12 revealed that parents are seeking ways to become more involved in their child’s progress at school through the use of technology. Web-based student information systems improve communication between school and home via parent portals designed to provide parents and students secure access to real-time information that includes attendance, grades and detailed assignment descriptions, school bulletins, lunch menus and personal messages from teachers. The makers of the survey are convinced that secure, user-based online information access enables and encourages parent participation, which has a positive impact on student achievement.

There is good news for bloggers who want to include interactive video into their Internet blogs. Open source code is now available for Web developers in the form of an extensive Software Development Kit. Bloggers will have full control over video settings and content. They get to decide who is allowed to add and edit videos, and if they want to enable video comments or not. All videos can be tracked through a special management console. connectivity.”

IBM has developed innovations through an emerging communications technology that will save people money on fuel, decrease auto accidents and change the way people travel by making their travel safer and more streamlined. As the new technology becomes more standard in all vehicles, cars in general will be able to “sense” one another. This exchange of information between cars will allow them to take appropriate automatic corrective action and give essential feed back to their drivers to ease merging and traffic flow. Intelligent traffic systems will make real-time adjustments to traffic lights to ease congestion and clear paths for emergency vehicles. New sensor technologies, GPS and satellites will provide information to drivers on the best routes to avoid driving and parking during peak hours. Fewer traffic jams will result in cleaner air and safer roads. Travelers will get notifications of train and bus delays via cell phone, drivers will converse with their cars, and cities will find the cure for congestion.

The next featured article in this fall TMIS eNewsletter shares a future world of bold virtual reality via devices that provide high resolution, full immersion, visual and auditory experience to consumers. Chairman of a leading interactive 3D software provider projects that by year 2011, use of applications that blur the distinction between physical existence and digital reality will be commonplace due to widespread use of the next generation of the Internet, Web 3.0, which uses 3D interactive virtual reality technology. This technology will allow customers to become the driving force behind e-commerce by using 3D image scans for a correct clothing fit, for example. Real estate sales will be conducted through mixed-reality, fully immersed atmospheres that will allow potential buyers to not only walk through a property but virtually transport themselves into the environment to experience the physical and sensory experience of being there. The realm of personal communications will become fully integrated with mobile phones in a mixed reality where users might wear translucent goggles. Through these, wearers will see the real world as well as computer generated images projected on top of that world, creating an interactive mixed reality experience in real time. This vision will rely on the development and build out of the next generation of the Internet to change the way consumers communicate, interact and conduct commerce.,

I am grateful to be in a collaborative business with many talented and skilled professionals. Additional feedback and recommendations for our products and services at TM Information Services are always welcome.

- Mary M. McLaughlin

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