The Semantic Abyss - Plumbing the Semantic Web

I'll be giving a 3-minute elevator pitch for the Base Technology Software Agent Server at the upcoming NYC Semantic Web Meetup , on...

Back in the middle of January I ruminated about the possibility that after 15 years of thought and research, maybe I was finally on the...

Computational agents can be considered intelligent to the extent that they utilize human-level knowledge in their behavior. How to do tha...

There are two forms of truth that we have to deal with: Truth of existence. Does an object or phenomenon exist in reality? Truth o...

No matter how advanced our Semantic Web technology becomes, we still have an inherent problem, namely, the semantic gap between simple, p...

I have been trying to think about how to encode even relatively simple human knowledge in simple RDF triples and what issues arise. What ...

So, where are all the intelligent agents? The question keeps popping up and the list of excuses remains long and the final answer is al...

Making intelligent software agents both powerful and easy to construct, manage, and maintain will require a very rich semantic infrastruc...

RDF and other Semantic Web technologies are powerful tools for hard-core information professionals to publish data for the Semantic Web, but...

We have a wide-range spectrum of levels of abstraction for representing information in computers, none of which is particularly well adapted...

At a grossly oversimplified level, the Semantic Web consists of semantic islands and semantic links between those islands, each represent...

Cafe Philo in New York City will meet next week on Thursday, September 23, 2010 with a discussion on the topic of " Could we live wel...

I tried to come up with the narrowest possible subject line for this post about mistakes, but it does cover quite a range. Although we do ...

How bad is the Semantic Abyss for the Semantic Web? Well, it is so bad that the process of trying to find or construct an ontology has bee...

Doing a Google search of " The news makes the news " uncovered this interesting item : Simulacra Stephen Tyler (the Decons...

How dumb could a software agent be and still be considered an intelligent agent , presuming that it can communicate with and take advantage...

How dumb could a software agent be and still be considered intelligent, presuming that it can communicate with and take advantage of the se...

We encounter all manner of statements, beliefs, facts, and claims which we assert are either true or not true, or might be true or might be...

There is an old saying that " Philosophy bakes no bread ", implying that philosophy has no significant practical value, but I dis...

I have a simplified model of the progression of knowledge . Knowledge somehow needs to start somewhere as informal knowldge or tentative ...

From the very moment we first open our eyes or first hear some sound or first touch anything we feel that we are experiencing the world ...

Given that there is a semantic gap that I have been referring to as the Semantic Abyss , how exactly do we go about bridging the gap? My...

So, what do I know? Literally. Or what do you know? And what do we collectively know? Even if we sincerely wanted to represent everything ...

Although my primary interest is in representation of knowledge, it makes sense to focus attention on how knowledge is generated and used...

Only the most mindless simpleton believes that the future is predetermined and that everything that happens does so because it was "de...

I just finished reading an essay on Edge by noted computer scientist David Gelernter entitled " Time to Start Taking the Internet Se...

I was reading an essay on Edge by noted computer scientist David Gelernter entitled " Time to Start Taking the Internet Seriously ...

Superficially, that is the question: What is the unit of meaning? But, that one question is part of a bundle of questions, including (but ...