Announcement: The Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the first public pre-announcement of the Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge, which will be organized as a special track of next year’s Semantic Web Challenge [1]. This track will be in addition to the traditional SWC competition and it will focus on pushing the limits in […]

In my blog of a couple days ago, I said what set me off was a blog by Rachel.  Let me be clear, I was in no way disagreeing with her view of the Semantic Web - if you read between the flaming, you’ll see I totally endorse her view — what I didn’t like […]

Given my travel schedule I have no idea when I’ll actually get a chance to do justice to this meeting (probably never), but thought I’d do a quick shot to get some things online-
first, for those who don’t know what it is, Scifoo is a gathering of a relatively random collection of people, mostly scientists […]

(apologies to those picking this up on the Semantic Web list, it’s not related)
I searched for information that would be of help when connecting an airport wireless router for a modern home network (i.e. multiple laptops, wifi aware devices, airport express music, etc.) to Time Warner’s Road Runner cable, but was not successful in finding […]

The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. The Semantic Web Challenge offers participants the chance to show the best of the […]

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 […]

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 […]