With funding from HP, many people are working to bring the university's search applications to the consumer computer. Ideally, the collaboration will result in better wedding HP's printer business to its PCs.
"There is definitely a need for this. Printing is about context. There is nothing to print if you can't find what you are looking for," said
Another set of applications from Tsinghua can find songs in a music library by their rhythm characteristics, genre or vocal track. Type in "classical" on a genre search, and the software ferrets out the symphonic pieces on a hard drive through the sound in the track, not text tags associated with music files. Yet another application lets users find songs by humming a few snatches of the tune.
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