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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by egyptiankarim on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:10PM (#14805360)
Right?! I can't wait for the computer-human interaction research teams to jump on this trend and start publishing! The CHI/HCI/HCC community would flip out. My favorite example of how this sort of transparency would benefit the community: In 2009, Microsoft published an academic paper called "Mouse 2.0" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/mouse-2...), where they walked through the research prototypes for touch-sensitive peripherals. The paper was met with awe and acclaim... A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market.
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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by threeseed on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:48PM (#14806272)
> A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market

Apple released the iPhone 2 years before the Magic Mouse and that paper was released.

Quite sure that it was also an inspiration.

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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by egyptiankarim on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:28AM (#14813320)
Definitely.
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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by optimuspaul on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:38PM (#14806169)
Months? The Magic Mouse was released a few weeks later, not nearly enough time to develop the product based on the paper.
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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by egyptiankarim on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:27AM (#14813309)
My implication was that Apple had been doing that research work behind the scenes the entire time.
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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by mcphage on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:57PM (#14809510)
> A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market.

So you're implying that Apple saw the idea, copied it, and used it to bring a product to market—in months? That's not how any of that works.

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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by nl on Thursday July 20, 2017 @12:44AM (#14810052)
No, the implication was that Apple had been working on similar ideas but hadn't published them.
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Re:Apple Machine Learning Journal by egyptiankarim on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:27AM (#14813311)
Exactly!
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