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Friday, July 21st, 2006
I’ve also spent the week at AAAI, heard Tim’s talk and Peter Norvig’s question (Peter and I have known each other for more than 20 years now, he’s a good friend). Here’s some stuff people might be interested to know - Peter and Tim talked more after, Peter invited Tim to come visit Google […]
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
For a while now I’ve been noticing that although Danny Ayers’ cat has become a regular on Planet RDF
However, strangely there is no RDF meta-data about the cat. I had an opportunity to demo
Photostuff at a European Semantic Web summer school, and decided Danny’s cat should be the example. So now you can […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
I’ve been looking for a tee-shirt slogan for the Semantic Web - the title of this derives from somethign Keiron O’Hara wrote in an article we are working on - spun by me to resemble a more famous one… It’s not quite there yet, but I thought I would capture it here before I forgot, […]
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
It has now become official, as of January 1, 2007 (or thereabouts) I will be leaving Maryland and taking a position at RPI where I will be creating a new research center dedicated to a “web science” agenda (Stay tuned, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Danny Weitzner and I have had a “perspectives” accepted […]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
This conference has been keeping me hopping - past few days were meetings, various politics, a Scottish Ceilidh (hey, I didn’t say it was all work - check out http://www.scottishdance.net/ceilidh/dances.html) and some receptions at the castle. However, my paying gig was the opening plenary panel, which seemed to go pretty well - I even […]
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
My IEEE Intelligent Systems editorial for the May/June issue will be replaced by a introduction to a special issue on the Future of AI. I welcome your comments
-Jim H
(preprint - needs editing, but hey, this is a blog!)
Introduction to the “Future of AI”
As you know doubt know by now, 2006 is the […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
The following is an early draft of my editorial for the next IEEE Intelligent systems. Your comments welcome.
Intelligent Readers,
At the time I write this, we have just completed the Editorial board meeting for this magazine. This meeting is a time when members of our Editorial and Advisory Boards get together and discuss the […]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Just a quick note until I have time for a longer one (which is a piece I promised to have to Kendall Clark for publication in XML.com by November, but it was November 2004, so I despair a bit on getting it out).
I recently was approached about a workshop called “The Semantics in the Semantic […]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a colleague’s office while he was creating his first ever blog entry. Imagine my surprise when the news of that blog went international, and became a major IT story in many newspapers. “Dang!,” I thought, “I gotta get me one of those.” So here […]
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