- ARCHIVE / Just Blogging
- How semantic is the semantic web?
Just read this article thanks to a colleague: I share pretty much everything it says about the SW, so I though it wouldn’t be too bad to pass it on to the next reader. Basically, it is about some very fundamental issues: what do we mean by semantics? Does a computer have semantics? If not, […]
- Mmm that ruby is hot..
I havent written much in the last days – been busy writing a new browser for kmi’s semantic web services team, and moving on my phd thesis during the rest of the time. PLus – i did some research about ruby,which looks very lisp-alike BUT is web oriented. Anyways – that’s how I run into […]
- Jamendo: free and quality music online
Jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music. I’ve used this new service for a couple of hours only but I already like it a lot… .. can it be because the Kryos Project are already in it? On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative […]
- Zotero – is the browser enough to do research?
Zotero, a personal research assistant, directly into your browser. When I was told about it, was quite impressed. I’ve been dreaming of disposing of the ugly looking Endnote – and the feature list of zotero seemed pretty attractive! Automatic capture of citation information from web pages Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web […]
- Vaffanculo Day
You dear reader may not know what that means: it’s the “fuck off” day – organized by Beppe Grillo and other thousands of italians to say stop to the moral decaying of our state. It’s on tomorrow in all the major italian squares, and various world ones. If I were there, I would definitely join […]
- Where’s all the time gone?
I have no time to write anymore! The phd is sucking me down.. just two news: PhiloSURFical development is proceeding well (had a lot of positive feedback at the Wittgenstein Symposium) and it has a simple but shiny new site. And secondly – there’s a tabbed version of the Tractatus I’ve made using the Wittgenstein […]
- 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium
I am going to talk at the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 5-11 August 2007, Kirchberg, Austria. It has been a last minute invitation for PhiloSURFical, but it’s even more appreciated! And by peeping at the conference program, I realized there’s another hypertextual version of the Tractatus: the one created by Luciano Bazzochi from the university […]
- What can the analytical engine do? Ask Charles Babbage..
I recently read the original article of Charles Babbage – which deals with the work he and Lady Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace did on the Analytical Engine, one of the (mechanical) predecessors of the modern computer – thanks to a blog post from David Dodds. I guess that his position is representative of that […]
- Conference: SASO 2007 on Self-Organizing systems
Reminds me of Maturana’s ideas…. It’s the First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when […]
- Article: “The Semantic Web: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence Redux”
Just read a very interesting article from Harry Halpin, whose work stays at the borderline between history of science (of computer science especially I gather) and (S)Web development. I think it should be a must-read for all SW practitioners, so to understand where we (yes – I’m part of them..) stand in relation to the […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
