The J.R.R. Tolkien of the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 30, 2003 @02:58AM from the shelob-is-jealous dept.

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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Berners? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 03:00 · Score: -1, Troll

I thought it was Berns-Lee... Maybe it's just my memory failing me.
frist spot by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 03:01 · Score: -1, Troll

frost spit
The Semantic Web by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 03:05 · Score: -1, Troll

Will never come about. One major reason is sites like slashdot (no offense, guys).
France and Germany by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-30 03:07 · Score: -1, Troll

France and Germany are the only two European nations resisting on the IRAQ issue.

Does this suprise anyone? A Nazi nation and a nation of pussies. Fuckin' idiots. They should be more greatful to America for rescuing them from their own ignorance!

Go Bush! Go USA! SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!