Saturday, March 19, 2005
Whose responsibility to create the best system possible
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Paul,
Aren't we still just running out to the end of the diving board?
Search is a "killer app" for the information age. But knowledge age killer apps will be different.
Having heard Peter Norvig speak at the recent STC05 conference in San Francisco, it's clear that Google is focusing on solving information-age problems. What is different is that they are doing it on such a massive scale. The point he made is the vast quantities of data they deal with allow algorithms to be trained in ways that improve quality of results.
Meanwhile, the semantic wave is building. STC05 was a groundbreaking conference. 300 attendees. Conference buzz felt like the breakout of desktop publishing and the wave of aesthetic computing in the second half of the 80s.
Very much a business conference.
Here are three illustrations of the semantic wave business focus at this conference:
-- Semantic wave market sizing as well as TopQuadrant's latest research into the business value of semantic technologies. This presentation is available at:
http://www.topquadrant.com/tq_invited_talks.htm
-- Venture capital panel, chaired by Ralph Hodgson, which featured a "venture cafe" where audience participants were invited to invest in several new semantic businesses. Audience investment results are available at:
http://www.topquadrant.com/tqvcpanel2005.htm
-- Mainstream wake-up calls including:
(a) Eric Miller's (W3C) announcement of five mainstream semantic web solutions from companies such as HP, IBM, Nokia, Adobe, and Oracle,
(b) Oracle's announcement of support for graph operators and RDF store in 10G R2, in beta now and for release later this year, and
(c) Cisco's presentation on semantics and policy-based computing IN the Net.
Readers of OntologyStream hear the drum beat...
Mills