Keynote Act Two

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Now, we've seen a number of cases where this idea of IntelliSense has been taken to a new level. IntelliSense is watching how a particular user works with documents, and therefore is able to suggest things that are going to be helpful.

A first example we saw of that was as the mall document was being put together, the Assistant suggested that maybe the author would like to look out on the Internet and find related documents. By having natural language technology, you can find the proper nouns, you can know what the context of the documents is and you can highlight exactly those words and use those for a rich kind of search.

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After that search was done we went out and we were able to find a couple of things and they're marked according to a little summary, including whether it requires a license fee to use those documents. Of course, you can easily drag and drop those things and either link to them or use a portion of those documents in terms of what you want to create. Another thing we saw was a meeting taking place where the personal computer, through presentation software, was being used along with audio conferencing, and so we had the new kind of simultaneous voice data modem.



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At the end of the meeting, the Assistant asked, "What about the meeting summary? Should it be sent to other people? Should it be just the action items?" And that was all done very automatically. In fact, the meeting summary highlighted different things, and no effort was required. You can see the names here are linked so you can send e-mail to those people, and any of the documents that were used would be referenced there as well. So it's a case where you really get automatic help as you go along.


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