Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone
Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes...
Talking with Jim Hendler and Li Ding about Data.gov
My latest podcast is with Jim Hendler and Li Ding of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York state. They’re part of a team converting some of the Federal Government data on the new Data.gov portal to RDF, and we talk about both how the work is going, and what it...
Even in an Architecture of Participation, Thomson Reuters believes Content can be King
I write about Thomson Reuters‘ release of Calais 4.0 over on ZDNet today, and wanted to use this post to explore some of the broader context within which Calais should increasingly be considered. As well as linking to ‘usual suspects’ in the Linked Data space such as the CIA Factbook, GeoNames, DBpedia, Musicbrainz and the...
CNet sees the Wisdom of the Clouds
James Urquhart’s ‘The Wisdom of Clouds‘ blog is well worth a read for those trying to keep up with this fast-moving space. Yesterday he announced that the site is moving inside CNet‘s fold, and renaming as ‘The Wisdom of the Clouds.’ I look forward to seeing the same insight… with the added advantage (as I’ve...
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