Readware Intelligence Warehouse
The Readware Information processor is a fine analytical instrument that enhances human creativity by directly extending your faculty and capacity for combining, identifying, obtaining, mapping and relating, and comprehending knowledge. Because it is a fine analytical instrument, it takes some getting used to, and you will need to learn to use it. In this case, experience is the best teacher.
English,
French,
German
Supported Technologies
Windows 95/98/ME,
Windows XP/2000/NT ,
AIX,
HP/UX,
Linux,
Solaris/Sun OS
Web-Based (Browser)
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Pricing
Users (# of seats), System
$1,125 to $250,000
mitioke@readware.com
352-371-5931
Direct/Independent Agents --EC Distributors
Additional Product Information
One notable characteristic of creative people is their ability to think about the many divergent aspects of a subject or thing. That is, to include analogies or combinations of ideas that might not be readily apparent, or might on the surface seem odd or without sense, but which open up possibilities that might otherwise be overlooked. Often, it is the uniqueness or oddness of these combinations that can lead to an interesting and surprising result. Readware technology allows you to possess this capability and also helps you to capitalize on it, using your personal computer. ;Readware allows you to combine your ideas, concepts, with existing knowledge types and use them in interesting and novel ways in your search for pertinent relations and associations. This software will let you experiment with, and test, relations between ideas in ways never before possible. Naturally, all possible combinations cannot always lead to pleasantly serendipitous results or effects. The key is your ability to experiment and test your hypothesis. Every novelty survives only after exhaustive examination of the prior art.;Using Readware, you are able to combine any ideas and immediately identify, locate and access similar concepts in a Collection filled with information sources of your choice. Combining concepts and measuring their relations and effects are the major cognitive processes contributing to human creativity. What you may have done in your mind or your imagination and in haphazard practice, you can now do on your home or office computer much more reliably and consistently than ever before. ;Readware is a platform for combining and measuring the relations between concepts. It is a basis for enhancing human creativity while also providing for the dynamic access of stores of information. A related process to concept combination is concept expansion where old, established ideas and forms are recombined into unique, insightful creations. MITi has advanced this process from an art form into a science. Every term you enter is considered in respect to established ideas and forms contained in the Readware ConceptBase. This ConceptBase relates words differently than traditional thesauri or indexing techniques.;All forms of words are related to each other, not as synonyms, tokens in an index or as senseless patterns. The relations between synonyms and other artifacts of modern language are not natural relations; these relate modern grammatical forms. These are artifactual relations that we have grown accustomed to, but we all know that the terms of language encode conceptual forms. Therefore they relate directly to conceptual as well as grammatical forms albeit they are patterned differently. ;Unlike words, concepts are not fixed but fluid. They do not stand alone as words in a dictionary or lexicon; neither do their meanings. They derive from a confluence of interrelated conceptual elements that together reflect their natural relations to the world whenever they are combined with one another and used to refer to, express or render an idea. Theoretically, there is a finite set of natural relations to everything in the world. That is how people are able to learn about the world and it is the basis from which we develop creative ideas.;The Internet is a particularly rich and fertile ground for mining and refining creative ideas. The use of Readware on large stores of information made possible over the Internet will benefit everyone. This is because the use of existing knowledge plays an integral and important role in creativity by supplying a reserve of ideas and concepts that can be used as starting points in processes such as the conceptual combination and expansion described above. ;Readware actually improves your odds while it directly improves your thinking capacity, particularly when you are in an unfamiliar domain, in unknown territory. By utilizing existing knowledge you may not even have thought of, Readware improves your coverage of a subject adding to your total comprehension. Readware responds to nearly all linguistic types and forms of creative thinking including the use of metaphor and analogy when expressing or describing ideas. It also works in the English, German or French language. Because it is founded on universal concepts it can be applied in any language. ;While the Internet can carry all the information in the world, only Readware harnesses existing knowledge in the Readware ConceptBase. That is what makes it possible to reliably sort the wheat from the chaff, the porn from science, science from fiction, and cyber-hype from reality and that will benefit us all.;In time, we intend to also achieve a computer system interface that you can converse with, just like those infamous talking computers seen in science fiction films. We tell you this upfront because we want you to know that we have not yet achieved that level of sophistication. Adding grammatical sophistication is another step, and we can also outfit these techniques with speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies. ;To sum that up, this is not a Natural Language Interface (NLI); this system does not understand English grammar as you do. To access the right relations and associations as it were, consider how a fine precision instrument such as pen extends the human capacity for writing. The word and web page processor extend that capacity further, yet neither directly improves nor extends the human faculty for writing, say, as a good dictionary and thesaurus does. Readware extends your capacity for reading.;We can guarantee you, should you invest some time to become familiar, you will be rewarded with better control over your information assets; easier, faster access to key elements of your knowledge inventory; all the added benefits of access to collaborative information on demand, and not least of all; an overall enriching experience as you see and explore the consequential web of relations to a given knowledge type or a subject area of your choice.