THE NEXT time you start falling asleep during a lecture, just pull out your
personal digital assistant. A new PDA program will let you grab—or “snarf”
in geekspeak—the contents of a computerised slide, scribble on it and then
send your handiwork back to the big screen for everyone to see.
The real goal of the system is to make interactive meetings easier. “We call
it ‘semantic snarfing’ because our system allows you to take only the part of
the slide that has meaning for you, whether it be a string of text or a photo,”
says Brad Myers,…
