With the launch of WolframAlpha the mainstream public has been exposed to new term, and a new concepts: “Knowledgebase” and “knowledge engine”. There has been an awful lot of confusion over this, and the multiple posts comparing WolframAlpha to Google are a testimony to this.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘researcher’
TGIF – wicked!
Hi all, welcome to another TGIF post. I hope that you have had a chilled out week and that you have enjoyed working and got time to have a bit of fun, if your work isn’t also your source of fun. This week I have been experiencing Sydney for the 1st time and mostly working [...][...]
The semantic web is not research as usual
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) did a nice lecture called “Where Does It Break? Or: Why the Semantic Web is Not Just ‘Research as Usual’” – I think that there is a lot of confusion about what the semantic web is and how complicated the entire thing is.[...]

