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MIT Lecture Browser: Finds keywords so that students can efficiently review lectures. (technologyreview.com)
3 points by amichail on Nov 27, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This falls into a class of technologies which can be described thus: It would be awesome if it worked but probably won't.

On 15 search queries which I regularly perform on Google Scholar (e.g. QED, fMRI, Feynman, Jeff Hawkins etc.) I got zero useful results. The one hit on Feynman for example was a false positive.

While I really enjoyed their UI and watching the transcript follow along with the speech (play a video to see this happen) the accuracy was so low on all the key concept terms that I can't imagine how it would be useful at this level.


An audio recaptcha should fix that.




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