One might think that the Internet -- to say nothing of that other modern information-gathering device, the telephone -- had rendered Mr. Hawkinson redundant.
"What Nixon is driving for has eluded many Presidents before him: to use his own staff strictly as an information-gathering device and leave [to] his Cabinet all the major policy advice".
Phones: As we've already noted, your phone is essentially a comprehensive personal information-gathering device.
They also act as data gathering devices, uploading more information to the cloud in the form of things like GPS data, pictures, more tweets, or notification about an inventory restocking.
From all the data gathering devices we have available, video cameras are the most successful ones in the sense they provide us with fuller and crisper information about the fragment of the environment they are observing.
Multivariate graphs didn't begin to appear in the popular press until the nineteen-eighties, and only in the past decade, as smartphones and other information-gathering devices have accelerated the accumulation of Big Data, have complex visualizations been routinely presented to the general public.
An under-addressed question regarding the usage of small devices is how information gathering from such devices is limited or changed relative to a full-size display?
While the prevalence and use of mobile devices to gather important information is increasing rapidly, a critical question is whether information gathering and reasoning with these devices produces acceptable levels of performance, especially relative to more traditional desktop environments?
With the user-based attribution model, you become part of a detailed triumvirate of information gathering: you as a person, the device you use, and what you do on that device, as well as within all the apps on that device.
Aside from its importance in speeding up inferences from large knowledge bases, relevance reasoning is crucial in advanced applications such as modeling complex physical devices and information gathering in distributed heterogeneous systems.
But information gathering needs to be bolstered.
