with a recap of the first day of the conference. Wallis writes, “Something that struck me throughout the day was the number of references to the Kasabi Data Marketplace during the day. Well yes, you might say, you are a Kasabi Partner and Kasabi S...
In 1989, Marco Varone, along with Stefano Spaggiari and Paolo Lombardi, founded Expert System Italy. The three wanted to develop semantic software to extract knowledge from text by replicating human processes. Varone is the father of the company’s...
How well you use something is often much more important than how much you use it. That is true in many areas of life and no less so in the fields of technology and education. EU-funded research is leading the way in the qualitative analysis of tec...
this week. He recently wrote, “One of the more eagerly awaited presentations at the Semantic Tech & Business Conference in Berlin today was a late addition to the program from Denny Vrandecic. With the prominence of Dbpedia in the Linked Open Data...
The idea of an academic launching a meaningful web search engine seems, to put mildly, fanciful. What initially seems even more surprising is that Massimo Marchiori, a professor at the University of Padua in northeast Italy, is being taken serious...
Before a new drug can be used to treat aliments or disease, one of the first crucial processes in making that drug is to synthesize its chemical compounds. This is, quite literally, joining one atom at a time to form new molecular structures. But,...
Smartlogic recently released a new version of its Semaphore software, which took home the 2011 European Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award. Version 3.3 adds new semantically-rich features, but the company itself has been shifting its str...
After a great day yesterday I was eager to to discover what today’s program had to offer. Unfortunately I had to set off for the airport, where I am now writing this, before the end. However I caught most of the day and here are my few. Today’s Ke...
The Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences, in collaboration with the AKSW, is looking for two PhD and one Post Doctorate positions in Knowledge Engineering & the Semantic Web: “The positions are primarily based at BUAS (Switzerlan...
I’m really excited to introduce Nenad Senic who will regulary contribute posts to our blog. He is a content marketing expert and is working as european editor at Content Marketing Institute and also regularly blogs at his own blog at Disput. – Tin...
You can forgive Massimo Marchiori for wanting his moment in the sun. After all, it’s fifteen years since the Italian academic created Hyper Search, a system for ranking web pages that proved a great inspiration for Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s ear...
Well, who’d have guessed it? After two long years, the new edition of Informer is finally out. Can it really be that long? Has a full two years passed since the last issue? So much has happened in that time. First, we’ve expanded the team: I am no...
