Entries from November 2001

XML Meta-Data – Daniel & Ann

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 30, 2001 at 9:45am   User  by Psybertron

RDF, XML Schema and XML Meta-DataRef : “Professional XML Meta Data” by Daniel Rivers-Moore, Ann Wrightson, et al pub WROX.See RDF-SyntaxSee RDF-SchemaECM-Associations / Gellish-facts / ProcessML-Templates / Sentences(tm) / RDF-statements – common ground.

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Chaos & Complexity in Public Organisations

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 30, 2001 at 9:32am   User  by Psybertron

AT LAST – Chaos and Complexity theories reach the public consciousness as issues for management of organisations.BBC Radio 4 Today – Analyst looking at Health Service organisation identifies these issues as blockers to predictable behaviour.Tiny inputs – Large unpredicted outcomes, yes, but equallyEnormous inputs – No predictable outcomes.Relevant message – Buisness rules for information management [...]

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The Learning Machine

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 16, 2001 at 12:48am   User  by Psybertron

The Learning Machine ChallengeSpin off from the AI Forum Management Information Systems QuarterlyAcademic & Research Journal on MISIncludes “Qualitative” scope amongst more traditional aspects.Has Mike Myers (Uni of Auckland) on the editorial board.Previously associated with Geoff Walsham (Judge Institute, Cambridge)

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Technology is Useless

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 16, 2001 at 12:26am   User  by Psybertron

Remember A.C. Clarke’s 3 stages of reaction to technological breakthroughs: (a) It’s completely impossible.(b) OK, it’s possible, but it’s practically useless.(c) Well, I said it was a good idea all along. And Douglas Adams (Quoting Bran Ferren) – “Technology is the stuff that doesn’t work yet”

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Windows XP

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 15, 2001 at 11:58pm   User  by Psybertron

Living with Windows XP XP: Released last week BBC News Online’s Paul Rocks explains what it has been like living with an evaluation copy of Windows XP for the last couple of months. (Text copy deleted) My six weeks with XP have been pleasurable. No system crashes, no major problems and no phone-a-friend to sort [...]

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Peer to Peer Explosion

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 15, 2001 at 11:54pm   User  by Psybertron

Monday November 5 2:00 PM ET Use of Napster-Alternatives Rose in Oct. -WebnoizeLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Users swapped 1.81 billion media files on Napster (news – web sites)-alternative services like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster, which have seen usage rise since Napster shut down in July to legal pressures, a research firm said on Monday. Web [...]

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AI Nat Lang Group

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 15, 2001 at 11:42pm   User  by Psybertron

AI / Natural Language discussion grouphttp://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.ai.nat-lang

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Scoffing at Autonomy

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 15, 2001 at 11:38pm   User  by Psybertron

From: CorporateInfo (TelegraphHillSF@yahoo.com)Subject: Expert scoffs at Autonomy software Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-langView: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format Date: 2001-08-23 21:49:53 PST At Genentech headquarters today in South San Francisco, there was aseminar on “Metadata & Controlled Vocabularies: What Are they and Whatis their Value?” given by Amy Warner, faculty member in [...]

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Jorn’s Ontology

Comments   2   Date Arrow  November 15, 2001 at 11:38pm   User  by Psybertron

From: Jorn Barger (jorn@enteract.com)Subject: Semantics and NLP Newsgroups: comp.ai.nat-langView: Complete Thread (19 articles) | Original Format Date: 2001-11-05 06:10:02 PST Judging from the replies I got to my recent ‘newsdiff’ posting, itappears university programs in AI are (still) doing an extremely bad jobof covering *semantics*… An unabridged dictionary may have half a million entries. Roget [...]

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XML Bumps Against Old AI Problems

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 3, 2001 at 12:32am   User  by Psybertron

Latest from Robot Wisdom.XML bumps into AI problemsIncluding essay on Cyc and links to Cyc home pages Current Work of IEEE’s Standard Upper Ontology projectPromising scope, but still thrashing about.

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