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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Video: Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web

The inventor of the World Wide Web explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.
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The Semantic Web is well under way and could have an impact even greater than the Web that we all use every day, predicts Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and senior researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. (See "A Smarter Web.") Berners-Lee says (in this video) that the Semantic Web, which he describes as a "web of data" in contrast to today's "web of documents," has great potential in giving a user the ability to see, understand, and manipulate data. He points to applications in medicine, in reacting to civil and health emergencies, and even in such mundane tasks as knowing where your friends are in relation to the nearest coffee shop.

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  • Where's the Tim Berners-Lee Video?
    tkarwin on 03/28/2007 at 2:48 AM
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    • here
      brunascle on 03/28/2007 at 10:31 AM
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      here: http://www.technologyreview.com/video/semantic
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  • Yeah Where?
    thirtygrand on 03/28/2007 at 4:47 AM
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    That's what I would like to know too.
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  • Tim Berners-Lee, etc.
    rttedrow on 03/28/2007 at 7:44 AM
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    Long on enthusiasm, short on articulation -- but then I like these things written so I can ponder.
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    • Re: Tim Berners-Lee, etc.
      mdtrager on 03/28/2007 at 2:24 PM
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      Dear Sir:
         The Look of what we do is one thing, the
      result is an other.
         The Position that we can change, the Learning
      to Learn, the positon of working on the Problems
      is fine, But, " The percentage of this should
      go to direct change in the system of Surport
      for People Right in your own Back Yard, who by
      the way you Face every day". 'Q' Michael Trager
         The Position of taking the High Road is all
      well and good and the work should and has to be
      done. The having the Means and taking it to
      the Population that needs it is not even the
      Answer either.
         The System need to work on the need for a
      return to AN Equal Society, in Which Value,is
      Not Just an education, but the Work out side
      of that Education, which is a Good To The Public
      Welfare.
      Your Truly
      Michael Trager
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