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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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Beyond the algorithmization of the sciences: "Algorithmic thinking is transforming both the descriptive sciences and the humanities, bringing them all closer to the mathematical core of computer science." This is a great article, and mirrors the thinking of the PITAC report on computational science as well as the Microsoft Research report Towards 2020 Science. But how can we educate tomorrow's researchers to benefit from the tools provided by computer science?
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Semantic web is too fragile technology -- Comment()
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee: "A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web..." The current semantic web seems to offer a technology too fragile to use on the global scale. The complexity of various classification and ontological schemes, work needed to provide the metadata etc. Also, semantic web seems to offer great opporturnities for spammers and other mischief makers. Now we already have comment and reference spamming, but semantic web (on the global scale) raises the possibilities enormously.
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Does the internet make you stupid? "Today at lunch I had an interesting question from a system engineer: Does the internet make you stupid? He said, before the web was invented you had to figure out everything all on yourself when you had to solve your problems. Today you just ask your favorite search engine..." [:: vowe dot net ::]
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