Software tool for "How to decide what to read"

[LORINCZ Andras]

Dear Connectionists:

Geoff Hinton was asking for a tool to support decision on what
to read (see attachment).

The tool, which will be free for Academic use, can be downloaded and
tried.
Please, visit http://www.coraler.com
Related projects on
-- hand-free navigation
-- anonymous and accountable self-organizing communities
can be found at
http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz/Files/Head_Mouse/Head_Mouse.html
http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz/pub.html.

The present state of the software:
It is made of three main parts:
1. Hostess (This is the server. Install kit is under development)
2. MapViewer (Flash and applet versions are ready)
3. MapEditor (Ready)

How it works:
You view the maps through the MapViewer from your computer
You modify, correct and edit maps with MapEditor (Download it and test
it!)
You publish the maps at your Hostess (the Hostess of your group).

The MapEditor allows you
-- to connect nodes (html pages, or your own files) with directed arrows
-- to insert comments to the nodes
-- to render images to the nodes
-- to initiate a search at Yahoo (Google requries query limitations or
payment)
-- to use drag and drop function when adding html pages or documents

Other functionalities, which will be included for the end of the summer:
-- breaking news detector
-- automated domain mapping tool
-- automated bookmark integration tool
-- automated keyword keyphrase extraction using KEA
-- RL based link-highlighting when surfing on the maps

Each community can have distributed cryptographic key system for
publishing, for editing, and for accountable anonymity.
This key system will make use of the ITTC crypto software
http://theory.stanford.edu/~dabo/ITTC/
and will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

Looking forward to your feedback,

Andras Lorincz