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Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday opened the doors to a new research lab that has a distinct software flavor.
Nokia executives said the Nokia Research Center Cambridge has begun seven projects in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The research focuses on simplifying user interactions [...]

ClickZ Network
Book Review: Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
Morville looks at how wayfinding strategies developed in the offline world and how they’ve evolved online. Unsurprisingly, he finds many problems but also proposes many approaches for potentially solving those problems.
It’s refreshing to see topics such as SEO and Web site usability viewed through this broader lens. Though [...]

XML.com
Let’s say you’re curious to find out the population of the city you live in. Go to Google and ask it “population of philadelphia, pa.” Ha! We’re too smart for Google. It tries to answer the question but comes up with “Pennsylvania – Population: 12,281,054 ; 6th, 12/00.” That’s not what we were looking for. [...]

Heise Online
German scientists are working on a project they call Wikinger (German for “Viking”) based on the concept of Wikipedia to provide virtual knowledge networking in addition to the classic exchange of knowledge at Congresses. The goal of the project is to create a domain-neutral platform for scientists to allow them to perform research in [...]

Bio-IT World.com
Sharing their passion for the Semantic Web at the Bio-IT World Life Sciences Conference + Expo session on Tuesday were several prominent leaders of the movement.
Providing a clinical perspective was Tonya Hongsermeier of Partners Healthcare, who said the Semantic Web is necessary for knowledge management because “the market is balking at healthcare inflation.” She [...]

Computerworld Australia
Web creator Tim Berners-Lee says that the next phase of the Web, dubbed the Semantic Web, could start making its presence felt at companies in the next couple of years.
He provided 400-plus attendees at the MIT Information Technology Conference an update on the project, which has been in the works for about five years.
The [...]

FCW.com
An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research.
The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — from e-commerce [...]