I was recently asked by a reporter about when the term “Semantic Web” was first used.  I gave the usual answer - that it had been mentioned in “Weaving the Web” (1999) and that the usual “academic” citation was the Scientific American article (2001), but I know that some folks were using it well before […]

Under the gun for my editorial in IEEE Intelligent Systems, I decided I would continue with the “dark side” theme, and see if I could state it coherently in a form that non-PlanetRDF AI folks might understand.  I’m not sure if I did, but here’s a preprint of what I submitted (sorry about the length […]

Since I hear rumors are flying, I thought I had better fess up - I did indeed give a talk entitled “The Dark Side of the Semantic Web” at Edinburgh last week (download the slides - pdf - from here). However, before you all start to beat me up - let me point out that […]