Since about 5 years or so, I have been constantly explaining to a variety of people with different backgrounds what the semantic web is all about. Sure, it´s about knowledge representation, ontology engineering, OWL, RDF and all that stuff. But, what …

“By 2029 we’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains… to make us smarter”, said Ray Kurzweil. The inventor and futurist is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, futurism and more. The engineer believes machines and humans will ev …

“By 2029 we’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains… to make us smarter”, said Ray Kurzweil. The inventor and futurist is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, futurism and more. The engineer believes machines and humans will ev …

invitation to our offline social semantic web meet&greet. 25th of feb. 2008 19:00 @ mezzanin.cc / vienna monday is funday — release 2008-02

A general workflow of creating websites always looks the same: The graphic department or the designer is designing some artwork for and with the customer, until the layout of a website is finalized. The web developer receives the final artwork to reali …

This years’ European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Tenerife (see some Flickr photos to be impressed). This inviting location will surely attract many participants, and I am happy to be one of them. I am in the Programme Committee of two works …

Open Calais – a new and smart API from Reuters – finally does what critics say to be the greatest obstacle to the Semantic Web: Taking the metadata burden from the enduser by providing an automatic meta-tagging tool. The principle behind Open Calais is …

This year´s I-Semantics held in Graz/Austria invites original paper submissions to the following not limited list of topics: Semantic Social Software Semantic Wikis and Webblogs Semantic Desktop Social Tagging & Folksonomies Semantic Mashups Knowle …