On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Gabriele Modena wrote:
I am an AI master student at the university of Amsterdam.
On of my current research interests lays in the area of information
retrieval and I would like to do a project within my University research
group starting next june.
I am actually studying background literature about semantic filesystem and
information retrieval over local files.
Being also quite interested in kernel development, I would like to propose a
proof of concept that implements such techniques. My goal, though, would not
be just a reimplementation of existing code, but possibly some more
extensive work that combines techniques already used in other domains of II.
Could this be an interesting Summer of Code proposal for the FreeBSD
Foundation?
I plan to write down some notes/ideas (and details) I have on a wiki
starting from next week.
Hi Gabriele--
We are certainly not uninterested in projects along these lines, but I think
the trick will be creating a convincing proposal that argues that (a) you can
do the work in a summer, (b) there's a compelling usage case for including the
results in FreeBSD, and (c) find a mentor who can supervise you in this
project. What sort of semantic file system do you have in mind? How would
you feel about a middle-ground project along the lines of Mac OS X Spotlight
or similar efficient userspace indexing of a file system based on feedback
from the file system about what has changed, or something BeOS-like, in which
indexing takes place for extended attributes rather than for contents?
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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