June 2009
Robot Living
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 12:00am
Robot Living
Welcome to Robot Living. A love of mechanical things and David Macaulay’s fascinating building books, such as the book Castle, read at a young age helped prompt us to create this website. Also the love of science fiction, has prompted the creation of this website.
Tags: Technology
Protovis
Thu, 06/25/2009 - 12:00am
Protovis
Stanford University researchers have developed Protovis, a set of tools that simplifies the process of building complex data visualizations. Although Protovis requires some programming knowledge, it is designed to be easy to use for someone without significant programming experience, says Stanford professor and Protovis creator Jeff Heer. He says the level of programming needed for Protovis is only slightly higher than HTML, but lower than JavaScript.
Tags: Research
MetroSense
Mon, 06/22/2009 - 12:00am
MetroSense
Sensing is going mobile and people-centric. Sensors for activity recognition and GPS for location are now being shipped in millions of top end mobile phones enabling a myriad of new sensor based applications for personal, social and public sensing. This complements other sensors already on mobile phones such as high-quality cameras, microphones, and digital compasses.
Tags: Labs and Societies
Contracts without Lawyers
Fri, 06/19/2009 - 12:00am
Contracts without Lawyers
European researchers working on the Contract project are developing computer systems capable of autonomously creating, monitoring, and managing online contractual agreements. The Contract project has developed a set of verification algorithms that enable on- and offline validation of e-business interactions based on contracts. Individuals and organizations can use the verification process to test for conflicts between a contract they are about to enter and other obligations that exist from previous contracts.
Tags: Semantic Web
SPARQL Query Language for RDF
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:00am
SPARQL Query Language for RDF
RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL contains capabilities for querying required and optional graph patterns along with their conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL also supports extensible value testing and constraining queries by source RDF graph.
Semantic Web
Semantic Web Standards at W3C
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:00am
Semantic Web Standards at W3C
In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,” the sort of data you find in databases. The ultimate goal of the Web of data is to enable computers to do more useful work and to develop systems that can support trusted interactions over the network. The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data.
Tags: Semantic Web
OWL Web Ontology Language Overview at W3C
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:00am
OWL Web Ontology Language Overview at W3C
The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full.
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:00am
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
We aim to raise a new generation of neuroscientists trained to work in forward-thinking interdisciplinary environments. The philosophy of the Center is “pedagogy from hands-on research experience”. A central focus of the Center is our Ph.D. program, created to provide a multi-disciplinary training with the goal of creating a “new breed” of scientist who can unite theory and experiment, computational modeling and complex data collection and analysis using the latest technologies.
