Discusses three conceptual components of the semantic web project (1. expressing meaning, 2. knowledge representation, and 3. ontologies), with "educated layperson's" technical details on semantic markup, software agents, and machine-readable content serv
Internet singularity? Microsoft's Gary Flake, launching Live Labs, says it's "a deeper and tighter coupling between the online and offline worlds," while a blog commenter says, "There can be no Web 2.0 Singularity in the enterprise until organizations ta
The emergence of P2P Inference Engines and domain-specific ontologies in Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) will present a major threat to the central “search” engine model. In Web 3.0 (aka Semantic Web) P2P Inference Engines running on millions of users’ P
Web architecture from 50,000 feet up... decentralization and tolerance are the life and breath of Internet...If an engine of the future combines a reasoning engine with a search engine...able to construct proofs in a certain number of cases of very real i
Machines (or machine-based reasoning, aka 'AI software' or ‘info agents’) would then be able to use those laboriously –but not entirely manually– constructed ontologies to build a view (or formal model) of how the individual terms within the infor