]> UMBC eBiquity - Publications - Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Web - OWL and Bayes Networks 2006-05-01 UMBC eBiquity - Publications - Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Web - OWL and Bayesian Networks ProgrammableWeb: Mashups and the Web as Platform 2006-05-22 Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs digg 2006-05-23 Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. 2006-05-22 mSpace 2006-05-22 XTech 2006: Semantic Web @ NASA My current research is on a technique of 'User Driven Modelling/Programming'. My intention is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or scenario. Peter Hale PhD Research - User Driven Programming 2006-05-13 Putting MediaWiki to use in an organization 2006-05-23 One of the most controversial aspects of these next-generation products is something called the Image Constraint Token (ICT), a security "feature" that allows studios to force-downgrade video quality on players that lack a special video output that was designed to thwart piracy. This "HDMI" connector standard is part of a "protected pathway" for video that was meant to combat piracy by making it impossible for pirates to tap into high-definition video output and press "Record," as it were. 2006-05-23 Hollywood reportedly in agreement to delay forced quality downgrades for Blu-ray, HD DVD BBC NEWS - Neanderthal yields nuclear DNA 2006-05-16 The first sequences of nuclear DNA to be taken from a Neanderthal have been reported at a US science meeting. BBC > Unlike most tagging systems, Semanlink lets you arrange tags into a concept hierarchy > > It’s a del.icio.us on steroids. The UI is not yet quite streamlined enough for my taste, but it looks usable. It’s technologically simple – Jena memory model, file-based persistence – so it should be hackable. Quite cool. dowhatimean.net » [juc] François-Paul Servant – Semanlink 2006-05-13 2006-05-13 del.icio.us: 150+ hacks categorized TechnicaLee Speaking: SPARQL Calendar Demo: A SPARQL JavaScript Library 2006-05-22 2006-05-27 2006-05-27 Le rêve européen confisqué Le Monde 2006-05-28 Scuttle: Store, share and tag your favourite links 2006-05-13 Semanlink on del.icio.us Semantic World and Cyberspace: gnowsis 0.9.0 release 2006-05-06 2006-05-04 MAPLE Lab @ UMBC Multi-Agent Planning and Learning "exploring artificial intelligence..."<br/> The Multi-Agent Planning and Learning Lab at UMBC is devoted to exploring artificial intelligence and developing A.I. solutions to real-world problems. Our interests and current projects span both the theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence. Our research reaches outside of multiagent systems, planning, and machine learning to include cognitive science, computational sociology, bioinformatics, and human-computer interaction. 2006-05-26 Rapport d'information de M. Jean-Marie Rolland sur l'enseignement des disciplines scientifiques dans le primaire et le secondaire La mission a observé, tant en France qu'à l'étranger, un tel enthousiasme à enseigner, une telle curiosité et une telle soif d'apprendre, dès lors que l'on sort des modes traditionnels de transmission des savoirs qu'elle considère que le levier du changement réside dans ces laboratoires pédagogiques qui tendent à se multiplier bien plus que dans une énième révision des programmes ou des horaires. 2006-05-02 My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice Not all scientists agree that the 18,000-year-old "little people" fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores should be designated an extinct human-related species. Debate on Little Human Fossil Enters Major Scientific Forum - New York Times 2006-05-25 SourceForge.net: del.icio.us Java API 2006-05-13 delicious-java is a Java API for interacting with the del.icio.us social bookmarks service. BSD license 2006-05-23 Extreme Life on Earth (California Academy of Sciences - Natural History) chillyinside.com » Blog Archive » 2006 Jena User Conference 2006-05-26 One theory of the origin of AIDS is that it developed from contaminated vaccines (cultured on monkey kidneys) used in the world's first mass immunisation for polio, in Congo, between 1957 and 1960. 2006-05-26 Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS While searching for a suitable output format for a new RDF framework, I've been looking at the various semantic hypertext approaches, namely microformats, Structured Blogging, RDFa, and Embedded RDF (eRDF). Each one has its pros and cons... 2006-05-29 ARC Embedded RDF (eRDF) Parser for PHP RDF/A Primer 1.0: Embedding RDF in XHTML 2006-05-23 2006-05-04 Research in the Cognition, Robotics, and Learning (CORAL) lab seeks to understand how artificial systems can acquire grounded knowledge from sensori-motor interaction with their environment that enables cognitive activities like natural language communication and planning. Cognition, Robotics, and Learning (CORAL) Lab Home 2006 Jena User Conference - proceedings 2006-05-17 2006-05-06 "one particular thing I believe they've got strongly right" (the notion that the individual user of the system will have their own personal ontology, derived from a handful of base terms.)<br/> The user creates describing properties on the go. If a new property is needed, it is instantly created. There is no strong domain/range typing, if the user wants to use the property in an "unintended" way, the user is always right to do so. Personal Gnowledge Lost Boy: XTech 2006: SPARQLing Services An overview of SPARQL, with an emphasis on the SPARQL protocol and how SPARQL can benefit Web 2.0/AJAX applications. 2006-05-22 BBC The BBC has staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties. 2006-05-14 BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC starts to rock online world 2006-05-13 JUC day 1: photos Zipcar, the urban car-sharing company that now operates in eight U.S. cities, has brought a Webby mindset -- automation, transparency, community -- to the rubber-meets-road business of car rental. </br> Zipcar removes human operators from the rental process entirely. Customers sign up online, then reserve cars either through Zipcar's Web site or by calling an automated phone system that recognizes their cell-phone caller ID. The cars are parked in local lots and garages, unattended. Each car has a card reader mounted behind its windshield. If a customer has a reservation for that car during that time slot, the vehicle unlocks when she waves her "Zipcard" at it. The keys are inside. 2006-05-05 A Self-Service Rental Car BBC 2006-05-05 A mathematical analysis of the human genome suggests that so-called "junk DNA" might not be so useless after all. BBC NEWS - Salvage prospect for 'junk' DNA XTech 2006: SPARQLing Services This paper will review the SPARQL specifications and its potential benefits to Web 2.0 applications. Focusing on the SPARQL protocol for RDF, the paper will provide implementation guidance for developers interested in adding SPARQL support to their applications. 2006-05-22 2006-05-17 Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language 2005-04-19 BBC BBC NEWS - Ethiopians celebrate obelisk return 2006-05-01 XMLArmyKnife - Experimenting with EmbeddedRDF and GRDDL Support Embedded RDF is a method of embedding (a subset of) RDF within XHTML and HTML documents. A simple XSLT transformation can be used to extract the RDF from within the document. <br/> A related and more generalised technology is GRDDL which defines how to associate transformation algorithms (i.e. XSLT stylesheets) with XHTML profiles or microformats so that there's a clear mapping from embedded metadata into RDF. <br/> I've been experimenting with adding support for both of these technologies in the XMLArmyKnife SPARQL query service. This provides a means to directly query RDF embedded in XHTML documents. 2006-05-28 After installing J2SE 5.0 Release 4, J2SE 5.0 becomes preferred over Java 1.4.2, which will still be installed on your Mac. About Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 2006-05-02 2006-05-25 Jena User Conference - some interesting UI related papers/presentations from Shabajee, Paul on 2006-05-17 (public-semweb-ui@w3.org from May 2006) 2006-05-26 "Ce roman...", (qui met en scène Voulet au moment de l'attaque du village de Sarranounia Mangou)... a fait émerger un vieux souvenir de Collège : une version grecque... où le général Brasidas, exhortait ses troupes poursuivies par les Barbares et inférieures en nombre, à se battre tout en faisant retraite. Version grecque 2006-05-28 3spots: 30 Social Bookmarks 'Add to' footer links for blogs 2006-05-13 Quick Online Tips » Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tools Collection Semanlink on Netvouz Netvouz is an online social bookmark manager 2006-05-28 2006-05-05 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge: urban driving To succeed, vehicles must autonomously obey traffic laws while merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, negotiating busy intersections and avoiding obstacles. California Academy of Sciences 2006-05-23 Natural History Museum Le Monde Quand les ingénieurs en herbe se projettent en 2020 2006-05-27 2006-05-28 The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. 2006-05-26 Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2006-05-21 Developers are like artists; they produce their best work if they have the freedom to do so, but they need good tools<br/>Giving developers operational responsibilities has greatly enhanced the quality of the services, both from a customer and a technology point of view. The traditional model is that you take your software to the wall that separates development and operations, and throw it over and then forget about it. Not at Amazon. You build it, you run it. Learning from the Amazon technology platform (a Conversation with Werner Vogel) Embedded RDF Wiki :: Talis This document describes how a subset of RDF can be embedded into XHTML or HTML by using common idioms and attributes. No new elements or attributes have been invented and the usages of the HTML attributes are within normal bounds. This scheme is designed to work with CSS and other HTML support technologies. 2006-05-29 2006-05-17 Les origines du Sida Documentaire accusant un vaccin contre la polio, fabriqué avec des reins de chimpanzés et utilisé au Congo, d'être à l'origine de la transmission du sida à l'homme. Le film est effrayant - ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'il ait raison. LibraryThing - my online catalog of books 2006-05-30 2006-05-28 'Dead' Climber's Survival Impugns Mount Everest Ethics - New York Times 2006-05-26 Lego Mindstorms Développé au MIT pour Lego, le Robotic Invention System n'est pas un robot, mais plutôt un ensemble de pièces pour construire des robots comme dans la philosophie LEGO. In a video demonstration in Tokyo, brain signals detected by a magnetic resonance imaging scanner were relayed to a robotic hand. A person in the MRI machine made a fist, spread his fingers and then made a V-sign. Several seconds later, a robotic hand mimicked the movements. Honda says brain waves control robot 2006-05-26 2006-05-10 PIMO-a PIM Ontology for the Semantic Desktop In this report, a new ontology language is proposed, the PIMO ontology language, which addresses the requirements of the Semantic Desktop and uses existing solutions as an inspiration to build a suitable solution. The language contains a core upper ontology, defining basic classes for things, concepts, resources, persons, etc. and also stops at these basic entities. Extending the ontology definitions of classes and relations is possible by PIMO-domain ontologies. The core application area of the PIMO-language is to allow individual persons to express their own mental models in a structured way, the different mental models can then be integrated based on matching algorithms or on domain ontologies. 2006-05-22 AOL’s social networking product AIM Pages 2006-05-29 ajax: Project jMaki jMaki is all about enabling Java developers to use JavaScript in their Java based applications as either a JSP tag library or a JSF component. France 5 : Blancs de mémoire 2006-05-08 BBC BBC NEWS - Putin orders oil pipeline shifted 2006-05-05 Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the route of a controversial new oil pipeline should be altered to avoid the world's deepest freshwater lake. 2006-04-26