OK, I’ve finally gotten angry enough that I feel compelled to respond to something written over 4 years ago — the much quoted and, forgive me, totally misguided, blog entry by Clay Shirky in which he totally mischaracterized some of what Tim Berners-Lee, Ora Lassila, and I said in the 2001 Scientific American article, which […]

Monday marked the first canine visitor to the lab. π came in and relaxed in my office while recovering from surgery. She reports good interactions with all members of the lab.
-Jen

Today, I was building up my list of social networks at
http://trust.mindswap.org/cgi-bin/relationshipTable.cgi
I was adding in a new network called Gazzag.com and in the process they emailed everyone who was on my Orkut list from my address and told them that I invited them to join my network at Gazzag.com. Thus…
Gazzag.com is my new enemy
I have […]

OK, this isn’t really a Semantic Web post at all (sorry PlanetRDFers) but I thought I’d share the following odd fact…
I’m on my second week of travel going to various and sundry meetings.  Monday night, I was in a Hilton Garden Inn in Albany New York.  Hilton Garden Inn brags that every room has an […]

I am in Leicester at DeMontfort University for a meeting about developing a trust management system. This is a collaborative project funded partly by NATO to encourage work among researchers in NATO countries. We have had some very interesting discussions of what trust means in software systems rather than social systems as well as how […]

I attended the Second International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability (program) and the first day of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2006), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on 24-25 September 2006. My trip report is available on:
http://prototypo.blogspot.com/2006/09/software-evolvability-2006-in.html
and
http://prototypo.blogspot.com/2006/09/international-conference-on-software.html

Yesterday I succesfully presented my thesis proposal!! The general idea is to utilize OWL-DL and Description Logic reasoning for the purpose of syndication on the Web. One of the main goals of my current work is to address current limitations in DL-based syndication approaches, primarily related to reasoning through changes. If you are interested a […]

The paper “Creating a Science of the Web” came out in today’s edition of Science as planned.  Now Availble are:
A link to the paper good this week only (Aug 11-17)
A PDF version of the paper as it appeared  (which does look like a persistent link, and it didn’t ask me to log in, so I […]

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 […]

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, […]