I don’t have time for a full trip report, but thought it worth doing a fast “impressions” blog on the “Semgrail 2007″ meeting hosted by Microsoft, June 21 and 22 in Redmond, WA. This meeting brought together a number of researchers working on the Semantic Web, on issues of Web privacy, and on other somewhat […]
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 […]
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 […]
I decided to turn my short screed from this blog into an editorial for IEEE Intelligent Systems - Below is a preprint of the editorial - I welcome comments (in the blog, as letters to the editor, or via email) - Jim Hendler
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Where are all the Agents?
Intelligent Readers,
Something occurred to me recently. In […]
Given the proliferation of version numbers on the Web, I thought I’d throw this into the mix. The ultimate goal of the Web will be achieved when search engines can find the answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything - obviously that will occur in Web 42.0
sorry, couldn’t resist
Jim H.
Following a few links from Planet RDF (thanks to Kingsley Idehen and to Henry Story) I got to Tim O’Reilly’s article “Freebase will Prove Addictive” (or as Henry referred to it “O’Reilley groks the Semantic Web.”) Reading the post I felt compelled to reply - rather than sending you to my response, I […]
Something hit me the other day — in late 1998 I went to DARPA and took over the “Control of Agent Based Systems” (CoABS) program. This program focused on developing middle ware for agent-based systems, essentially an interoperability program aimed at making different agent architectures work together. At the time, there were a number of […]
I’ve recently seen a number of posts that point to my Dark Side articles as Hendler gives up on URIs, says we don’t need semantics, etc. I want to be very clear - I believe that “A little semantics goes a long way” which is amazingly different than “no semantics is needed”!!
Here’s a […]
I blogged a while ago that a good way to find ontologies on google was to use “filetype:owl” (i.e. “person filetype:owl” will find ontologies with the term person in them) and then that if you used the “-” trick in Google to use a word that wasn’t in the ontology, and chose something not in […]
