CNET News 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

Princeton University Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in McCosh 50. His talk, “The Future of the Web,” will cover not only the history of the Web but also the concept and development of the “semantic Web.” Berners-Lee is director of the World Wide Web [...]

DM Review The increasing importance of electronic channels is also a key to the rise in unstructured enterprise content (EC). With increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny, there are mandates to keep records of Internet and email transactions. Demand for richer media such as audio files and HD video for training, marketing, etc. also creates EC. [...]

Java World Peek inside a Java book that presents 101 exciting and cool code bits, open source projects, and project ideas Chapter 3 is an exciting chapter to read, but Chapter 4′s discussion on crawling the Semantic Web is just awesome. The Semantic Web is a step up from the current Web in that the [...]

Guardian Unlimited The Open University is switching its VLE from Blackboard and Web CT to the open access system Moodle. “We are moving to Moodle because it is an open-source, open-tools, collaborative environment,” says the OU’s Peter Scott. “The market for VLEs is being driven by universities and by students and their requirements.” He anticipates [...]

Genetic Engineering News Cerebra, Inc. a leading provider of semantic-based content integration solutions, today announced graduation of the first class from Cerebra University, the industry’s premier forum for semantic technology education. Jeff Pollock’s session, “Enterprise Semantic Web for 2006″ at this week’s Semantic Technology Conference 2006, is an introduction to the commercial application of semantic [...]

W3C The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, [...]

Computer World The Semantic Web is a visionary project that aims to enhance the usability and usefulness of the Web by enabling computers to find, read, understand and use the content of Web documents to accomplish tasks via automated agents and Web-based services. Tim Berners-Lee – the Oxford University graduate who invented the Web in [...]