Online Video Education and Seminars Can Be a Real Butt Flattener

Many of us go online to learn new things and stay up auto insurance rates comparison the latest bad credit home equity loan our industry. The other day, I watched a 2-hour video conference on the Internet from MIT, it was about Collective Intelligence and how humans working together, along with computer Artificial Intelligence could be smarter than individual humans or the best artificial intelligence.

The discussion was great, but there was one gentleman up on the panel, that really was bothering me due to his "communistic" displacement and political leanings. Each time he was speaking, I moved the little cursor to by-pass whatever he was saying. This worked pretty well, but I could never quite figure out where to move the cursor in order to finish his talking without missing something else from a more astute panel member.

The other day, I read something very interesting on this problem, with a solution developed by MIT. The Online Newspaper and Blog is called; The Chronicle of Higher Education, (November 16, 2007 - Skipping the Boring Parts of Faculty Lectures), below is the article excerpts:

The 1-hour-and-13-minute lecture on "The Birth and Death of Stars" by the MIT physics professor Walter H.G. Lewin is probably really good. But suppose you're cramming for an exam, and you just want to review the part where he talks about white dwarfs (a type of star)? MIT students are in luck. Lewin's lecture not only has been recorded, but MIT has come up with a search engine that scans lectures for key words (like white dwarf) and lets students play just that part of the lecture back. Lewin inexpensive auto insurance white dwarfs, for example, Beachboys the 9-minute-and-20-second mark.

It seems the MIT Computer Science and AI Demimonde has created an Online Video Search Engine, which is based on Voice Recognition. It is still in the refinement process and is about 80% correct. Nevertheless, such a feature would sure save us researchers a lot of time, so I thought you should know.

Wish to learn more about this technology?

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2553/skipping-the-boring-parts-of-faculty-lectureshttp://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2553/skipping-the-boring-parts-of-faculty-lectures

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