Boffins at Stanford University have developed an
email system that figures out who messages are intended for and find
them.
You might not know the correct address of the person you want to send
the email, but the technology can scour data bases and the Internet to track
down intended email recipients.
It finds the right John Smith by using
semantic technology to understand phrases and relationships between words
instead of simply recognising typed characters. Stanford computer science
associate professor Michael Genesereth said the experiments have worked so well
that it will be tested by more than 6,000 people in the Stanford Computer
Science Department this year. Most people don't want to write an email
address they would just like to tap the person's name in.
Semantic email is
expected to first take root in companies and other organisations interested in
letting workers more efficiently mine internal personnel data bases.
We guess
it would be great for spammers.
More
here.