Hi guys,
This is also my first post. Athens is a nice place and there are some good restaurants (and bars) in downtown. I can see why Vlatko likes here.
Today (Nov 7) is the first day of main conference and we started with Keynote talk 1 by Tom Gruber: “Where the social web meets […]

Most of us sat in the SWUI workshop today.  There were a lot of posters/demo and discussions.  Tim demoed the Timulator.. err.. Tabulator, a generic browser of RDF data.  It incorporates SPARQL query on a multiple-select then query interfaces.  The results of queries can be displayed on a calendar or a map (if they […]

Hello from Athens, GA. I’m here attending ISWC 2006; today was the start of the various workshops preceding the conference. It was really fun as I got to see all of my old UGA colleagues, as well as many other friends in the community. Today I hopped around a few of the workshops, catching a […]

Sat in the Semantic Web Policy Workshop today, where Vlad had a presentation. There are a couple of papers speaking of constrained natural language as a device to allow (computer savvy) people to author policies. One paper claimed that prior to this GUI/CNL approach, no one other than the policy buffs can write a policy […]

Hi again from Montpellier, France. Let me start by saying the Montpellier is very very beautiful city, and if you ever have a chance to come through, you definitely should. Wonderful architecture, great food, perfect weather…its been really nice.
As I said in an earlier post, I’m here attending ODBase 2006. Over the past two days, […]

Hello from Montpellier, France. I’m here attending the ODBase conference and presenting our paper (co-authored with Bijan and Evren) on incremental consistency checking. I actually gave the talk this morning and it went very well. There were about 50 people attending the talk and the audience appeared very interested. The questions which were asked were […]

For a while now I have been using Google to find OWL during my demos.  If one uses a search key and “ext:owl” or “ext:rdf” one can find files with the searched term- and since most OWL users are ignoring the recommendation to use “rdf” as the extension and using “.owl” the ext:owl search tends […]

Coming out in tomorrow, August 11 Science Magazine, an article entitled “Creating a Science of the Web” by TimBL, Wendy Hall, Me, Nigel Shadbolt and Danny Weitzner.  Link should be up tomorrow, those looking for a preview, there’s a short summary (giving me too much of the credit) on the RPI web site.

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 […]

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 […]