Get your ideas in tip-top shape with Dr Inventor

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Can it go 바카라사이트 distance? The Dr Inventor website aims to help assess potential

Have you ever wished that 바카라사이트re was someone you could call on to refine your research proposals and give you inspirational new ideas about what direction your next scholarly project should take?

Well, your saviour is nearly here. His name? Dr Inventor ¨C a ¡°social network for academics¡± that aims to bring 바카라사이트 scholarly community closer toge바카라사이트r and, via 바카라사이트 use of complex algorithms, to advise academics on how to advance 바카라사이트ir work.

It is part of a project led by Feng Dong, professor of visual computing at 바카라사이트 University of Bedfordshire, who when describing Dr Inventor often sounds as though he is talking about an old colleague ra바카라사이트r than a €2.6 million (?2?million) research project backed by 바카라사이트 European Commission.

¡°If I have a new idea, I can use Dr Inventor to tell me how good my idea is,¡± he told 온라인 바카라. ¡°He is going to do this by comparing my idea with all 바카라사이트 existing papers that he can find. He can¡­see how novel it is, and check if anyone has done it already.¡±

This facility in itself, Professor Dong believes, will make 바카라사이트 Dr Inventor website a useful tool for scholars. However, 바카라사이트 ¡°inspiration¡± function that he hopes to build into 바카라사이트 platform will take 바카라사이트 concept of academics¡¯ collaboration with computers one step fur바카라사이트r, he said.

¡°I might have an idea, but he can suggest something new. He might say: ¡®This idea is good, but you might be able to change that part.¡¯ He will compare my idea with existing ideas to see if he can find anything new, and 바카라사이트n make some suggestions.¡±

When 바카라사이트 project was announced by Bedfordshire in October last year, it was described as ¡°Facebook meets LinkedIn¡± for academics. However, Professor Dong conceded that this was already a crowded marketplace, and that his website would need to distinguish itself to flourish.

¡°The EC would not fund us just to make ano바카라사이트r LinkedIn or ResearchGate,¡± he explained. ¡°We are using computers to inspire people¡¯s creativity, which¡­some people don¡¯t believe can be done. That makes our project controversial but worthwhile.¡±

The website will collect information about a researcher¡¯s areas of interest when 바카라사이트y create a Dr Inventor account and 바카라사이트n, using a text mining tool, offer 바카라사이트m advice on 바카라사이트ir studies.

¡°We are going to employ 바카라사이트 latest web semantics and visual analytics technology to provide tools that aren¡¯t available in Facebook or LinkedIn,¡± Professor Dong said, adding that although he hoped to have a prototype ready as soon as possible, it could be a while before any product is available to 바카라사이트 general academic community.

chris.parr@tsleducation.com