A Fountain of Knowledge: 2004 will be the year of the analysis engine (04 Jan 2004)

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A Fountain of Knowledge: 2004 will be the year of the analysis engine (04 Jan 2004)
IBM’s breakthrough is called WebFountain-half a football field’s worth of rack-mounted processors, routers, and disk drives running a huge menagerie of programs. All this hardware and software is dedicated to one purpose: making sense of the churning ocean of information, opinion, and falsehood that roils the Internet every second of every day.

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