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The MIT Press
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As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines read format languages such as HTML or SGML, search results reflect formatting tags more than actual page content, which is expressed in natural language. Spinning the Semantic Web describes an exciting new type of hierarchy and standardization that will replace the current "web of links" with a "web of meaning." Using a flexible set of languages and tools, the Semantic Web will make all available information—display elements, metadata, services, images, and especially content—accessible. The result will be an immense repository of information accessible for a wide range of new applications.
This first handbook for the Semantic Web covers, among other topics, software agents that can negotiate and collect information, markup languages that can tag many more types of information in a document, and knowledge systems that enable machines to read Web pages and determine their reliability. The truly interdisciplinary Semantic Web combines aspects of artificial intelligence, markup languages, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, intelligent agents, and databases. |
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By H. Peter Alesso
Wiley-Interscience
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What is Thinking? What is Turings Test? What is Gödels Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lees Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web? Thinking on the Web draws from the contributions of Tim Berners-Lee (What is solvable on the Web?), Kurt Gödel (What is decidable?), and Alan Turing (What is machine intelligence?) to evaluate how much intelligence can be projected onto the Web. The authors offer both abstract and practical perspectives to delineate both the opportunities and challenges of a smarter Web through a threaded series of vignettes and a thorough review of Semantic Web development. |
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By Tim Berners-Lee
Harper Paperbacks
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Named one of the greatest minds of the 20th century by Time, Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for one of that century's most important advancements: the world wide web. Now, this low-profile genius-who never personally profitted from his invention -offers a compelling protrait of his invention. He reveals the Web's origins and the creation of the now ubiquitous http and www acronyms and shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of softeware companies , and the need to find the ideal balance between commercial and social forces. He offers insights into the true nature of the Web, showing readers how to use it to its fullest advantage. And he presents his own plan for the Web's future, calling for the active support and participation of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to manage and maintain this valuable resource so that it can remain a powerful force for social change and an outlet for individual creativity. |
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By Mike Berners-Lee
Green Profile
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From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of literally anything we do, buy and think about. He helps us pick our battles by laying out the orders of magnitude. The book ranges from the everyday (foods, books, plastic bags, bikes, flights, baths - ) and the global (deforestation, data centres, rice production, the World Cup, volcanoes, - ) Be warned, some of the things you thought you knew about green living may be about to be turned on their head. Never preachy but packed full of information and always entertaining. |
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By Ann Gaines
Mitchell Lane Publishers
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In three months in the fall of 1989, Berners-Lee used the Internet, a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government and its system of sending information over telephone lines, and invented the World Wide Web. Today the World Wide Web exists in every country, reaching tens of millions of homes around the world. People have become friends with other people they will never visit because of it. People conduct business and do shopping without ever leaving their homes. Someday soon elections might be held on it. Every year, it seems, humans find new and better ways to communicate through it. Berners-Lee remains humble today about his achievement, which he gave away to the world. "I pieced it together as I pursued my regular work and personal life," he explains in his book Weaving the Web. "But many other people, most of them unknown, contributed essential ingredients, in much the same almost random fashion. A group of individuals holding a common dream and working together at a distance brought about a great change." |
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By Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
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As USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, "[Tim Berners-Lee] has been compared to Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the printing press, which in turn changed religion, government and science. . . . It's bizarre to even think that there is a living, breathing inventor of the Web. He's funny and likable and about as intimidating as that Pikachu runt from my kids' Pokemon collection." Few people can name the inventor of the World Wide Web - and that's how he prefers it. Tim Berners-Lee - born in 1955 to parents who were computer programmers - was in the right place at the right time. He grew up believing computers could do more than just store data, and in 1989 he came up with a way for computers around the world to share information. His efforts developed into what most of us use on a daily basis - the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee now directs the World Wide Web Consortium, a group that continues to ensure the Web remains free and accessible to everyone, everywhere. He is also working to bring the Web to its full potential. "The Web," he says, "is far from `done.' " |
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By Tim Berners-Lee
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English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee quietly laid the foundations for the World Wide Web (and consequently Hypertext) in 1980, created a prototype in 1990 and unleashed it to the public in 1991. Now overseeing his creation's growth, he tells the story of its growth and future development. |
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By H. Peter Alesso
Wiley-Interscience
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- Provides valuable insight into the progress and direction of development of the World Wide Web and its likely future applications in science and business.
- Reviews the prospects for the Web to develop intelligent services (such as online businesses, games, purchases, new search capabilities, and accessibility to trustworthy information).
- Offers a view for thinking about thinking on the Web.
- The companion website offers access to supplemental text, specialized information, additional examples, demos, tools reference material, and advanced applications.
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, Stan Kelly-Bootle, James Anderson, Nick Palmer, A.s. Douglas, Conway Berners-Lee, Rebecca Grinter, Christopher Strachey, Martin Henson, Peter J. Landin, Peter J. Bentley, Mark A. O'neill, Wendy Hall, Steve Linford, Ian Bayley, Hugh Mcgregor Ross, Sue Black, Richard Bornat, John G.f. Francis, Nigel Shadbolt, J. C. P. Miller, Steve Grand, Mark Harman, Michael Hennell, Samuel Fedida, Jim Davies, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Michael Collins, John Michael Spivey, Chris Tofts, Ronald Stamper, Paul Reilly, Graham Kendall, Ian Cullimore, Steve Kille, Martin Woodward, John Fitch, Geoff Walsham. Excerpt: Alexander "Sandy" Shafto Douglas Professor Alexander "Sandy" Shafto Douglas CBE (born May 21, 1921) is a British professor of computer science , credited with creating the first graphical Computer game OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses ) a tic-tac-toe computer game in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge . Biography Early life Douglas was born on May 21, 1921 in London . At age eight, his family moved to Cromwell Road , near what would become the London Air Terminal. A 74 bus ride for one old penny took me to Exhibition Road, from which I could go towards South Kensington station to my father's office (which is still there) and workshop (now demolished) down by what became the Elysée Française. Alternatively, I could turn north to the Science Museum - a trip I took often. In the winter of 1938 39, sirDouglas newton and his future wife Andrey Parker made a snowman in the grounds of the Natural History Museum . Douglas and his wife would go on to have two children, and at least two grandsons. During the Blitz , in 1940 41, Douglas's Home Guard Unit, 'C' Company of the Chelsea and Kensington Battalion of the KRRC, had its headquarters in the bas... |
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