New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data.
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ALL SPECIAL REPORTS
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 - A Smarter Web
- New technologies will make online search more intelligent--and may even lead to a "Web 3.0."
Eric Miller, an MIT-affiliated computer scientist, stood, studying a document he'd printed earlier that afternoon. Five years before, he'd agreed to lead a diverse group of researchers working on a project called the Semantic Web, which seeks to give computers the ability--the seeming intelligence--to understand content on the World Wide Web. Read More
- What Comes After Web 2.0?
- Today's primitive prototypes show that a more intelligent Internet is still a long way off.
- Your Virtual Clone
- Chatterbots from MyCyberTwin can respond to questions about you when you're not online.
- Build Your Own Social Network
- Ning, a new Web service, lets users become the CEOs of their own mini-MySpaces.
- Mining for Cheap Flights
- Farecast claims to offer cheap tickets based on science, not marketing.
- Using the Internet Anonymously?
- New open-source software by IBM could let people minimize their digital footprints, potentially curbing online fraud.
- IBM's Software Predictions
- New software visualization tools will help make sense out of the increasing abundance and complexity of information.
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 - Sharing Data Visualization
IBM's site lets people collaborate to creatively visualize and discuss data on fast food, Jesus' apostles, greenhouse-gas trends, and more.
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- 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.
- Divine Disorder on the Desktop
- PC users can be as neat or as messy as they like using a new 3-D computer interface based on video-game technology. But can the new software revitalize the creaky desktop metaphor?
- TR10: Peering into Video's Future
- The Internet is about to drown in digital video. Hui Zhang thinks peer-to-peer networks could come to the rescue.
- A More Personalized Internet?
- Yahoo Pipes lets people make highly customized feeds that combine information from multiple sources and weed out the junk.
- Intel, IBM Overhaul Material for Next-Generation Microprocessor
- Both companies modify transistor materials to make smaller, faster, more energy-efficient processors.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology