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The Semantic Web Research Group is a group of people working with Semantic Web technology inside the MIND LAB at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

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Tetherless World Web Site Goes on Line

Jim Hendler
Sun Oct 14, 2007

The Web site for the Tetherless World Project at RPI is now on line.

Yarden "Jordan" Katz takes the prize!

Jim Hendler
Sat May 05, 2007

Yarden Katz has been awarded the Schlaretzki Prize, which is given by the philosophy department each spring to the most outstanding student in the department. Way to go Yarden!

Mindswapper Paper wins "Best Paper" Award at ESWC-06

Aditya Kalyanpur
Fri Jun 16, 2006

The paper "Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies" by Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin and Bernardo Cuenca Grau won the "Best Paper" award at the recently conducted European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2006 The paper is available at: http://www.mindswap.org/papers/repairESWC.pdf

Bijan Parsia Abandons Mindswap

Jim Hendler
Mon May 15, 2006

Bijan Parsia, long time inmate of the MINDSWAP asylum, has busted loose, finding his way to a faculty position at the University of Manchester. We congratulate Bijan on his position, miss him a lot, and wish the best for him as he joins the second best Semantic Web group around :-)

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Mindswap funding is provided by: Fujitsu Laboratories of America -- College Park, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, NTT Corp., Kevric Corp., SAIC, National Science Foundation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, DARPA, US Army Research Laboratory, NIST, Other DoD sources

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