AAAI: Google and the Semantic, Satanic, Romantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee delivered his one hour keynote at the AAAI’06 conference yesterday on the Semantic Web, after an introduction from Yolanda Gil. Tim gave an impassioned speech covering the last 16 years...
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This thing called Science, whatever it is, who actually owns it? Scientists? Technology companies? Industrial Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical companies? Investors? Shareholders? Governments?...
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Donald Braben was in Manchester last week, to give a seminar on scientific freedom, here is the abstract of his talk: Every major scientific discovery came unexpectedly out of the blue. Until a few...
View ArticleTwenty million papers in PubMed: a triumph or a tragedy?
A quick search on pubmed.gov today reveals that the freely available American database of biomedical literature has just passed the 20 million citations mark*. Should we celebrate or commiserate...
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