Where's the Intelligent Book?

The demo is returning in stages ... again. Here's the link, but expect outages for the next few weeks.

I'm sorry about the delay.. After the Tiger's of Tomorrow demo last September, a few things happened. A baby, two full-time projects for Cambridge, then a move back to Australia and a new research post with NICTA. So I had to let the demo come down while I got a few things sorted out.

So what's the plan?

This section will be refined over the coming weeks...

• The demo will start to come back up during June, to co-incide with a book chapter (a chapter about the research in a print academic book) being published.
• The current quick-and-dirty "simultaneous collaborative editing" component is being spun out as an open-source project: docwit. It's just one of those small things a few other people might also find useful.
• Later in the year, however, I might rejig the Intelligent Book to use Google Wave for its collaborative editing -- Wave hasn't been released yet, but looks like being a much slicker collaborative rich text editing and gadget architecture that will make many of the things the original version of the Intelligent Book did a lot easier to productise. Particularly, Wave's "gadgets and robots" model seems to match the Intelligent Book's "embedded content applet and intelligent server-side component" model -- see Chapters 3 and 5 from my thesis; these can easily be recast as gadgets and robots. And I can put robots on Google's cloud, whereas the server (actually, the 1/64th of a server) this site runs on doesn't have the oomph to support too much server side processing for many users yet. And frankly, the more code I can outsource to Google, rather than having to maintain it myself, the better.
• I'm tempted to put up a JavaFX version of the electronics question, just to try JavaFX out.

Last update: 1 June 2009