2010-02-02
SPARQL revisited
I was happy to see that complex property paths are being considered as an addition to SPARQL as part of the new SPARQL 1.1 work. Lack of transitive closure earlier made me kind of lose interest in SPARQL for a long time, now things might change.
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2009-11-02
Semantics for the Rest of Us
We had a successful workshop at ISWC 2009 last week, titled "Semantics for the Rest of Us -- Variants of Semantic Web Languages in the Real World" (proceedings). Sandro Hawke from W3C gave the keynote talk, and we also had a panel discussion, chaired by Jim Hendler (my position statement slides are here).
Many thanks to everyone who participated (it was standing room only!). My particular thanks go to Lalana Kagal of MIT who did most of the work to get this workshop together.
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2009-03-27
Status Report
A couple of months ago I ended my 13-year tenure at Nokia Research and moved on to Nokia Services to work on technology strategy. Nokia Services is an exciting new unit of Nokia, responsible for the Ovi portal and some other services aimed at enhancing your mobile phone experience.
Posted by ora at 07:53
2008-10-27
PICKME'08 keynote
This may sound a bit like repetition, but this afternoon, I gave the keynote address at the PICKME'08 workshop, titled "Does Your Mobile Device Need to be Socially Aware? A Semantic Web Perspective". The workshop is co-located with ISWC 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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2008-10-26
URSW 2008 keynote
This morning, I gave the keynote address at the URSW 2008 workshop, titled "Some Personal Thoughts on Semantic Web and 'Non-Symbolic' AI". The workshop is co-located with ISWC 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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