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smart homes – house assistive technology

Smart homes controlled by a central computer is not just a phantasy story. Assistive house technology is a fact and offers many potentials. There are allready computer based systems that can control many functions of the house. So the time … Continue reading

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What do I need to watch 3D movie at home?

First of all you need a 3D TV. But this is not enough. Some people think that by buying a 3D TV they can see 3D films even by their DVD player using 3$ glasses from ebay. It is also … Continue reading

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Games and web semantic

One of the most popular internet subjects is games. Games have allways been a main function even for the first PCs. How will the semantic web affect the video games? How can the new technology be used? Storing data in … Continue reading

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Semantic Web Glossary

When I was learning all these terms one by one, I really would have benefited from a central and comprehensive place where I could have gone to look up terms. I put the glossary together, hoping to make it as … Continue reading

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Web 3 changes

Semantic Web and Web 3 are very close related. For many people they are considered to be allmost synonymous. Web 3 will be more graphic enviroment and less browser applications. Also it will be more focus on mobile phones and non-computer based … Continue reading

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The plus of semantic web languages

The plus of Semantic Web languages, is the fact that anyone can create one. How can someone do that? Just by publishing some RDF that describes a set of URIs, what they do, and how they are used.  (URI = … Continue reading

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What is the semantic web?

Semantic’s root is the Greek word “Semanticos” which means significant. The Semantic Web is the web of data, that enables machines to understand the meaning and the information on any internet site in the world . It extends the  human-readable web pages, by inserting machine-readable … Continue reading

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Drupal: The Semantic Web Enabler

Benjamin Melancon and Stephane Corlosquet recently gave a talk at a New York Semantic Web Meetup, organized by Marco Neumann, about how the Content Management System (CMS) Drupal is using Semantic Web, and much more importantly about how Drupal is … Continue reading

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FUN RDF: A Simple Introduction

Recently, Marco Neumann asked to write a “fun introduction to RDF” article. Since not long ago I was beginning to learn it myself, and having the learning struggles fresh in my mind, I thought it would help many people. I … Continue reading

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Smart Way to Compress Graph Data (or what I really wanted to call this blog post: Reasoning at IBM: A First)

At a recent New York Semantic Web meetup organized by Marco Neumann at NYU, Achille Fokoue, a researcher at IBM in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, gave a talk on a highly expressive reasoner technology under … Continue reading

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