Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. -- Niklaus Wirth

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The Web's Next Incarnation: Intelligent Talk -- The latest effort to organize the Web's vast store of information is called the "Semantic Web," and while it remains to be seen whether it can live up to its billing, it is promising enough to have attracted scientists from a variety of disciplines, including Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (11/14)

Darpa kick starts wearable computer initiative -- A growing group of researchers is coalescing around the idea that the future of mobile computing may have less to do with small PCs and more to do with something they call smart yarn. (11/13)

How good are online auctions as pricing mechanisms? -- Chuck Wood (Notre Dame) and Robert Kauffman (Minnesota) used a bot known as eDrill to gather data on thousands of eBay coin auctions from 1999 to 2001. They concluded that the price of a coin sold on eBay depends on factors that have nothing to do with its book value. (11/10)

Latest Directory Additions

HyperBee -- HyperBee is a new web search engine, with a twist! We use a volunteer peer-to-peer network to crawl the web faster and cheaper than current search engines are able to do it. (11/13)

Nilsson on Edutella -- an interview with Mikael Nilsson on Edutella -- a peer-to-peer service for the exchange of educational metadata using semantic web technology. (11/12)

Edutella Edutella is a peer-to-peer service for the exchange of educational metadata. Edutella lives on top of the Semantic Web framework (using RDF) as a distributed query and search service being implemented in JXTA. An (11/10)

Dublin Core provide RDF binding -- The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative have released two new documents describing how Dublin Core metadata elements can be used with the Resource Description Framework (RDF). (11/10)

The semantic web: How RDF will change learning technology standards -- "The field of learning technology has entered a phase of intense work on standardization of learning technology descriptions of various kinds. ... In what way might RDF be useful for learning technology specifications? In what sense does RDF represent the future of meta-data, and how does this affect learning technology? It turns out that the answers to these questions requires revising some of the fundamental assumptions in the learning technology field." (11/10)

IBM and MSFT propose "Web Services Inspection" -- IBM and MSFT are proposing WEB SERVICES INSPECTION (WS-I) as a way to describe what services a business offers and how users can access those services. The new standard is intended to complement and extend UDDI, WDSL and SOAP. (11/7)

Introduction to Web Services -- An Introduction to Web Services, Tracy Gardner, Ariadne 29, September 2001. This article in Ariadne, on online digital libraries publication, introduces web services, self-describing applications that can be discovered and accessed over the web by other applications. (11/6)

IDEF for Ontologies -- IDEF is a family of notations for modeling information which grew out of the USAF's Structured Analysis and Design Technique. (11/6)

DAI and Intelligent Agents (NTNU, Tveit) -- A course by Amund Tveit at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology that aims to "give an introduction the basic principles of distributed Artificial Intelligence, as well as the use such techniques in a distributed computing environment.Central to the course is the term "intelligent agents", its features and interaction between agents." (11/6)

Semantic Web (Sheth, UGA) -- This is an advanced course involving topics in Internet/WWW, database, information systems, and AI offered by Amit Sheth at the University of Georgia. (11/5)

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