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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.

  • Tuesday, March 27, 2007
  • By TR Editors

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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tkarwin

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  • 1783 Days Ago
  • 03/28/2007

Where's the Tim Berners-Lee Video?

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brunascle

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  • 1783 Days Ago
  • 03/28/2007

here

here: http://www.technologyreview.com/video/semantic

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thirtygrand

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  • 1783 Days Ago
  • 03/28/2007

Yeah Where?

That's what I would like to know too.

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rttedrow

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  • 1783 Days Ago
  • 03/28/2007

Tim Berners-Lee, etc.

Long on enthusiasm, short on articulation -- but then I like these things written so I can ponder.

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mdtrager

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  • 1783 Days Ago
  • 03/28/2007

Re: Tim Berners-Lee, etc.

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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