This small server connects to a user's PC and receives, processes, and stores on its internal hard drive personalized content for on-demand retrieval using a browser, but without going online — a breakthrough user experience offered only by Geocast.
The computing platform enabling Synaptic Hosting will be extended to deliver similar benefits to other services in AT&T's portfolio, including unified communication, content distribution, dynamic backup and restore, on-demand retrieval of high-resolution images such as X-rays and CT scans and many other subscription-based software services.
On-demand retrievals play according to the rules I described above.
In conjunction with the increasingly common use of such long-play video data, the demand for retrieval and summarization of data has been growing.
We assume this could happen in our experiment, as the experimental task did not demand the retrieval of associative-semantic knowledge.
Crucially, the word generation tasks of Brown et al. as well as the reading/repetition tasks of Church et al. differ in terms of demands in lexical retrieval: word generation requires lexical retrieval, but word repetition and reading do not.
By making Terra Server accessible over the Internet, Microsoft is trying to show that its software can also be used inside companies, where storage and retrieval demands are less severe.
The results of the present study contribute to the understanding of processes implemented in these regions by showing that the demands on autobiographical retrieval processes and self-referential mentation are affected by the degree of personal relevance associated with a processed scenario.
The authors speculate that the greater retrieval demands of a short-answer question may lead "to more thorough encoding of feedback" (Kang et al., 2007, p. 547).
We tentatively speculate that such a release from inhibition for "hard" words would drive the decrease in activation associated with increased lexical retrieval demands.
These findings extend the results of previous autobiographical memory research by demonstrating the spontaneous activation of an autobiographical memory network in a naturalistic task with low retrieval demands.
