artificial intelligence and e-mail integration as being approximately the same order of difficulty. Interestingly enough, it seems it is the same as we stand t

artificial intelligence and e-mail integration as being approximately the same order of difficulty. Interestingly enough, it seems it is the same as we stand today: see gMail, spamassasin, bayes condition. Turing (award), GOOG. A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement," he said. That's true. -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html