I’m currently attending the Semantic Technologies Conference and thought I’d share some of my experiences. The conference has been quite interesting, as it has provided a point of view which I do not get large exposure to…specifically what’s happening in industry in the Semantic Web space. It’s great to see that there are large industrial […]

As of today, the MINDSWAP project at the University of Maryland has officially gone virtual.  We have closed our laboratory in College Park, and members are now working from other locations.  Some will remain in College Park, some will move to Troy, NY and its environs.  Our Web site, http://www.mindswap.org, which was the first RDF […]

Here I am, blogging almost a week after the conference finished. Well, there is at least one advantage of blogging this late: I can tell you which WWW papers/talks made the biggest impression on me.
The first one was about Exhibit, essentially a set of javascript libraries that enable lightweight data publishing on the web. […]

Well I’ve been attending the WWW 2007 conference the past week; I do not blog that often, but I figured that since I’ve travelled all this way, I should share some of my experiences. IMHO, the conference has been, yet again, a large success. The talks have been very interesting and when there are no […]

I am pleased to announce that as of now, Jen Golbeck has agreed to be
the co-director of the Maryland INDSWA Project  (a/k/a/ MINDSWAP) - at some point in the
near future I will step down as the other codirector, leaving Jen as
MINDSWAP head.  This means MINDSWAP will live on for the foreseeable
future.
So rather than closing the […]

Ora Lassila and I have an article by this name that appeared in the recent (May-June) issue of IEEE Internet Computing.  Please download it from them if you can (to be nice and legal).  If you can’t, there’s a version on the MINDSWAP site.  We welcome your comments via blog, email or letter to the […]