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The J.R.R. Tolkien of the Web
rhwalker22 writes "In a column titled "Lord of the Webs," The Washington Post's Leslie Walker looks at Tim Berners-Lee ("the J.R.R. Tolkien of the computer world") and the Semantic Web project. Berners-Lee was in Washington recently to tout the project: 'In his futuristic scenario, the Semantic Web offers controlled access to American health care data, plus databases charting the location and status of rivers, underground water, forests and local vegetation, along with economic data on local industries and what they produce -- all marked up in special vocabularies. Those allow scientists to run global queries across the Web, fishing randomly for correlations that might exist between where the sick people lived, worked and played -- such as a polluted stream or industrial dump.'" See an older article on the Semantic Web.
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you know health is affected by the location of the planets and other stellar object as well. may be we should create a vocabulary for them as well. Contact Miss Cleo for more info
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Sorry to post off-topic but not sure where else to ask. What's going on with Slashdot's performance? Slashdot was never slow for me but the last few weeks have seen just awful load times. Is a new server to blame, extra traffic, what? Thanks!
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