Zen mind

Part 1 & Part 2 We just conducted a weeklong training session on OWL/DL and Ontology Engineering.  Several of the participants will be attending the Semantic Technology Conference, and felt they will be getting a lot more out of the conference, because of the...

The Data is the Platform

Reid Hoffman, of LinkedIn, came up with this tag line in a video I watched where he talked about Web 3.0. While it was a very Web 2.0 view of Web 3.0, that phrase “the data is the platform” really resonated. I actually do think this is the future. The...

The Integral Aperspectival Strikes Again

As a few of you know, in our ontology building class we use an example of building an ontology that can determine which flights are international (from a US perspective). We use this example at least in part to show how solving the generalized problem (international...

Semantics is/are in the air

I just got back from another trip to DC, and I’m struck by two things: Everyone (well the males over the drinking age anyway) wear ties. I may have to recycle my tie collection if I’m to spend much more time there — luckily there is a very low bar...