After last night’s “buffet” (which really means light snacking) at the Edinburgh Castle and a night of scripting, Chris and I are presenting “Tools for the Semantic Web” — Swoop (debugging/visualization) and PhotoStuff. Chris had been taking pictures around the conference for annotation. The conference’s wireless is… terrible (11b, and obviously the relay points are […]

Today’s opening panel had Tim, Jim, and two industry representatives. The focus is the next wave of the semantic web. Questions for the panelists range from the perspectives of the last few years to looking ahead of the future. The surprising thing of importance, according to Jim, is the speed of growth of the semantic […]

W00t! It’s sunny out today, though the weather forecast foretells rain and cloud. The main auditorium is opened an opening ceremony. A pair of bagpipte players and traditional dancers led the organizers and guests in. Wendy Hall and Sir TBL both gave short talks. The opening key note was given by David Brown, CEO of […]

So two days have past, so I thought I’d catch you all up to speed on whats been going on. First I’ll talk about the happenings two days ago, then talk about yesterday.
So, two days ago (5/23/06), the conference was officially open. The opening ceremony was actually quite fun…there were bag pipe players and traditional […]

Last week I attended the iTrust Conference in Pisa. The conference brings together researchers from many fields who are looking at issues of trust. While the majority of people there were looking at computational aspects of trust, there were also sociologists, philosophers, and economists.
We discussed how to model trust, how trust worked in networks, and […]

The first two days of the conference are scheduled only for
workshops.  Both ROW (Reasoning on the Web) and EON (Evaluation of
Ontologies for the Web), where Chris and I are presenting
respectively, are held today.  I attended the first two and half sessions
of EON, giving my talk just before lunch break.  Then I went to
ROW to see […]

This will be the first of many entries I write, recounting my experiences and episodes (both good and bad) at this years WWW conference. First I’ll start with a general overview of the day’s events.
Today was the first of two days of workshops. I participated in two workshops; Semantic Web Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia […]