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Tweet The goal and vision of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of connected and interlinked data (items) which can be shared and reused by all. Sharing and opening up “raw data” is great; but...
Tweet The DoD-sponsored JASON study group was asked to consider the question of whether there is a ‘science’ to cyber-security or if it is fundamentally empirical. They released an 88-page...
Tweet If you are good at solving hard problems and like to program here is something you might do over your winter break: compete in Facebook’s first annual Hackers Cup. The Hacker Cup will...
Tweet Google is looking for some people who “Live on the Web” to take part in a pilot program for their new Chrome-48 notebook. If you are accepted, you get a free Chrome notebook in return for...
Tweet Dot Diva is a Web site designed to “create an exciting and positive image of computing for high school girls”. It’s a effort of the ‘New Image of Computing’ project sponsored by NSF, ACM...
Tweet The Naive Bayes classifier is one of the most versatile machine learning algorithms that I have seen around during my meager experience as a graduate student, and I wanted to do a toy...
The Tech Council of Maryland is the state’s largest technology trade association and has more than 500 members. It is sponsoring a series of meetings on cyber security: “Understanding that...
The Google-supported Planet Wars Google AI Challenge had over 4000 entries that used AI and game theory to compete against one another. C at the R-Chart blog analyzed the programming languages...
Today the FTC released a preliminary staff report that proposes a “do not track” mechanism allowing consumers to opt out of data collection on online searching and browsing activities. The FTC...
Full Title: Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December Scientific American Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses the principles underlying the Web and the need to protect them in an article...