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Thinking on the Web

Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, Godel and Turing

by H. Peter Alesso (Author), Craig F. Smith (Author)

What is Thinking?

What is Turings Test? What is Gödels Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lees Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web?

Thinking on the Web draws from the contributions of Tim Berners-Lee (What is solvable on the Web?), Kurt Gödel (What is decidable?), and Alan Turing (What is machine intelligence?) to evaluate how much intelligence can be projected onto the Web.

The authors offer both abstract and practical perspectives to delineate both the opportunities and challenges of a smarter Web through a threaded series of vignettes and a thorough review of Semantic Web development.

Ubiquity

UBIQUITY: An experiment in connecting the web with language.

This looks interesting. One more useful item to add to Firefox!

Take a look:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

July Tech Lunch; a Great Byte!

July Tech Lunch a Great Byte! or a poor pun?
A fine meal and great conversation was enjoyed at the Blue Moon Cafe on July 29th in Shepherdstown, WV.   We had planned to use the house across the street but it proved a bit small.
Starting things off with "Show and Tell", Dan Tokar ,had the equivalent value of one US Dollar in Gold, Silver, Tin and Copper. I guess the amount of gasoline would be 32 ounces with gas at $4.00/gal. Good thing he just brought metals.
Bob Smith had just visited the Post Office with new mice for his collection.
Bob had a Cool Ring-Style Fingertip USB Optical Mouse:from DealExtreme he ordered . for only $7.88.
Laura Neal was impressed but tried not to show it!.
First step in Borg assimilation?  7 of 9 would love this!
	Dan Tokar figured out how the mouse was to be used right away. This comes from his long years as a blacksmith in which he has pounded upon cold metal and charged far too little for his work.
David Hark finally figured out how it worked in the record time of 6 hours ,with lots of help.
The group had a great time and most look forward to another get together again in August; the date to be arranged.

NSF and the Birth of the Internet

NSF and the Birth of the Internet

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/

The birth of the Internet is the subject of this utterly engaging and well-thought out special report created by the National Science Foundation. After a brief introduction, visitors can browse through a multimedia site that includes video clips of early pioneers talking about their work on this endeavor, along with maps of Internet growth from the 1960s to the 1990s and documents such as the Lax Report. Interestingly enough the Lax Report, issued in 1982, was influential in the creation of the National Science Foundation's supercomputing centers. The materials are divided up by decade (1960s through the 2000s) and visitors can click on each section to learn about the advances and challenges faced by persons working in this field. Along the way, a small section in the bottom right-hand corner of the site keeps a running total of the baud rate and the Internet users in each decade. Of course, visitors will not want to miss the section dedicated to Mosaic, which was the browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s.

From The Scout Report -- August 15, 2008

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