It is only natural that software built in this type of environment would contain echoes of its ethos.
"People already use the natural blocking software in their brains by ignoring banners," he says.
He adds that for a more natural interaction, software also needs to learn how to simulate the rhythm and beat of the way humans talk to each other.
Yseop, a French firm, uses its natural-language software to interpret queries, chug through data looking for answers, and then write them up in English, Spanish, French or German at 3,000 pages a second.
The edX project will include not only engineering courses, in which computer grading is relatively simple, but also humanities courses, in which essays might be graded through crowd-sourcing, or assessed with natural-language software.
The Mobyle project arose from the natural evolution of software such as PISE, offering a simple way to publish and to share bioinformatics software on the Web.
In fact, there is little natural affinity between software and media.
Something that I've always wanted to do is work the idea of natural degradation into software, like an app you use a lot would become worn-looking.
The team at ICT then used natural language processing software to help create an interactive version of the video footage, with vocal cues triggering responses from the pool of recorded speech.
Users will, for instance, be able to open another app simply by tapping a link embedded in the flow of messages.Such moves to become the platform that supersedes other platforms are a natural evolution in software, says Venkatesh Rao of Ribbonfarm, a consulting firm.
