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Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the same-old-refrain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As we all know, Tim Berners-Lee is the hero of the Web's creation story--he conjured up this system and chose not to capitalize on it commercially. It turns out that Sir Tim (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July) had a much grander plan in mind all along--a little something he calls the Semantic Web that would enable computers to extract meaning from far-flung information as easily as today's Internet links individual documents. In an interview with Technology Review, the Web-maestro explains his vision of 'a single Web of meaning, about everything and for everyone.'"

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  1. The Semantic Web is the next big thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and has been for over a decade (or more).

  2. Duplicate Posting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See the original here.

    Actually Slashdot posts this article over and over again every few months, with basically the same headline (sometimes "and" sometimes "on" sometimes "Tim" sometimes not). Kinda bizarre really. :-) I've never read any of them, I only know this Berners-Lee fellow from the headlines.

  3. Dang CERNopeans! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    As we all know, Al Gore is the hero of the Web's creation story.

  4. about everything and for everyone... by over_exposed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except for China, they get their own semantic web with special semantic filters in place that semantically keep their citizens under semantic control.

    --
    "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
    1. Re:about everything and for everyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope you're not anti-semantic?

  5. This burns me up!!! by octaene · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm so tired of Semantic trying to take over all the security tools. Are they now trying to take over the Internet? I mean really, Semantic Antivirus totally sucks ass big-time!!! And don't get me started on Semantic's SystemWorks tool and how bad it blows!

    Oh, wait a minute...

  6. Meanwhile... by genixia · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...a team in Redmond is tasked to make sure that Microsoft own the "single Web of meaning, about everything and for everyone."

  7. Will the "spash screen"... by jbarr · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...have the words "Don't Panic" prominently displayed?

    --
    My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
  8. Re:Ontology by Feynman · · Score: 2, Funny
    OK. How does it do with this sentence: "Time flies like an arrow?"

    It returns: "Fruit flies like a banana."

  9. Re:What Does 42 Mean for Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    +1 Pretentious for using the words metaphysical and epistemelogical in a Slashdot post

    +1 Pedantic for managing to spell these words correctly in a Slashdot post