Computer support for meetings

A method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees, the method comprising:

• accessing one or more digital data streams providing, in advance of the meeting, digital data related to a subject of the meeting, the digital data including one or more of email and document data;
• subjecting a sequence of words of the digital data to semantic computer modeling to identify one or more agenda items to be discussed during the meeting;
• assembling the one or more agenda items into a meeting agenda;
• and
• transmitting one or more output data streams including the meeting agenda to one or more of the invitees.

An automated meeting-support system comprising:

• a processor;
• a network device operatively coupled to the processor;
• and
• computer memory operatively coupled to the processor and configured to hold program instructions executable by the processor, the program instructions comprising:
• instructions to access one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream,
• instructions to subject the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee,
• instructions to subject the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and
• instructions to release, via the network device, one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.