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From: mickey@a.nl.cs.cmu.edu (Raman Chandrasekar)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.ai,comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Personalised News Systems
Message-ID: <13510@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:25:39 GMT
Reply-To: mickey@a.nl.cs.cmu.edu (Raman Chandrasekar)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I have read about a system (?prototype) developed at the
MIT Media Lab, which extracts news of relevance to a 
*particular* reader, and customizes it to the reader's
preference, and presents it to her in a multimedia 
electronic form.  For example, this system would highlight
sports stories (perhaps, specifically, tennis stories) for
a sports (tennis) fanatic. It would prominently display
Chicago weather if you planned to take a trip there.

I have a few questions about this and related systems:

1. If you have a contact (name + email address) for
   the person(s) who developed the system above, could
   you please mail it to me?

2. If you know of any similar systems (multimedia, or just
   plain text), could you please send whatever you have:
   contact names, addresses, email addresses, bibliographic
   references -- anything relevant?

I would appreciate any help in this. Many thanks.

  -- Chandrasekar
     mickey@cs.cmu.edu

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