If you think about web search, while it’s not trivial, it’s easier than looking at proprietary formats on a desktop machine. The thing about when this was released - it was released in 2004 for the first time - internet search was already popular, so that was started by Altavista back in 1995 or so. So on the left-hand side you get the results of whatever you search for on the right-hand side here you can get a thumbnail, perhaps, of what that image looks like, what that document might look like. So you can see here it’s done an online search for a dictionary lookup for related websites, or apps in the app store, stuff like that.īubt the thing that we’re interested in is that it indexes the files on your local disk, and it allows you to search through those files. Ti’s evolved over the years with the releases of Mac, so now it does things like prepares online searches as well. So when it was released initially, it indexed the files on your local disk and allowed you to search those files relatively easily. It started in 2004, and was released by Apple, and it was purely desktop search. Talk through the experiment that we conducted and what we found go through some of the results we had and then I’m going to tell you what I told you again.įirst of all, Spotlight looks like this. Those of you who are using Macs, I see a lot of Macs in the room, will be very familiar with it, I imagine. So the main points that I’m going to cover here is to go through exactly what Spotlight is, if you’re not familiar with it.
And it’s co-authored by myself and my co-author from UCD An Le-Khac, who supervised the project. Taj was a student of ours in UCD on Master’s program who graduated last year, and this is a paper that has been produced as a result of his dissertation research as part of his Master’s. This work was primarily conducted by Taj Atwal, who had intended to come and present it to you, but at the last minute had to cancel his plans.
Mark Scanlon discusses his research at DFRWS EU 2019.OK, good morning, how are you doing? My name is Mark Scanlon, I’ve been speaking to some of you guys already.
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