Emerging technologies portfolio

QBIC Image Database Management System
On-line collections of images are growing larger and more common, and tools are needed to efficiently manage, organize, and navigate through them. IBM has developed the QBIC system to let you make queries of large image databases based on visual image content (properties such as color percentages, color, layout, and textures) without describing them in words.

WBI Web Browser Customization
Agents can personalize otherwise impersonal computer systems. Web Browser Intelligence (WBI, pronounced "WEB-ee") is an implemented system that organizes agents on a user's workstation to observe user actions, proactively offer assistance, modify web documents, and perform new functions. WBI personalizes a user's web experience by joining personal information with global information to effectively tailor what the user sees.

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