Last week, Microsoft Research posted an update to Outlook Mobile Manager, now version 2.0, This is a cool little application that learns a model of how to assign priority/urgency to your incoming email and then forward when appropriate to a mobile device.
This kind of applications falls within the category of "decision-making within uncertainty," namely what do you do when you have less than perfect information? People are really good at this, and computers traditionally have been very bad at it. Both have to incorporate incomplete data from multiple sources (sender, org chart, time of day, recipient's calendar, words that denote importance or urgency, etc.) andlearn from successes and failures over time to continue to improve.
It's a very cool app -- I encourage you to check it out. It requires Microsoft Outlook, but will work with any mobile phone.
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