Something hit me the other day — in late 1998 I went to DARPA and took over the “Control of Agent Based Systems” (CoABS) program.  This program focused on developing middle ware for agent-based systems, essentially an interoperability program aimed at making different agent architectures work together.   At the time, there were a number of […]

I was totally frustrated that I was unable to stay at ISWC this year -unfortunately politics and science often go hand and hand, and I found myself in the vortex (no, not those politics, but I must admit it’s the first time in a long time I’ve enjoyed watching election returns come in). […]

It’s now official, MIT and Southampton have announced the formation of a “Web Science Research Initiative” to try to enhance research in Web-related areas (with Semantic Web clearly up there on the list).  The paper in Science back in August outlined the goals of Web Science (that paper is now available for free via the […]