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--CrowdVine says that "The most popular blog posts for conferences seem to be discussion on the conference as a whole, thoughts on a specific session...
Planet Social Media Research
--Planet Social Media Research [1] is a feed aggregator for blogs and feeds discussing research on social media. The scope is intended to cover rese...
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We are on a new server
--After several months of procrastination, we’re on a new server. Nicer, faster, hopefully more secure. Thanks to Filip, who helped make the tr...
Bit.ly: a URL shortener with semantic and geo-spatial analysis
--Bit.ly is a URL-shortener like TinyURL with a host of interesting features, as enumerated in the switchAbit blog. 1. History — we remember the las...
BBC interviews Tim Berners-Lee on Semantic Web
--The BBC broadcast an interview with Tim-Berners Lee on the future of the Internet”. In the interview he talk about the linking open data par...
HealthMap mines text for a global disease alert map
--HealthMap is an interesting Web site that displays a “global disease alert map” based on information extracted from a variety of text s...
Twitterment, domain grabbing, and grad students who could have been rich!
--Here at Ebiquity, we’ve had a number of great grad students. One of them, Akshay Java, hacked out a search engine for twitter posts around ea...
FringeDC Land of Lisp, 6pm 7/12/08, DC
--This FringeDC meeting looks like fun for Lispers in the DC area. “Conrad Barski will be presenting excerpts from his new book for community ...
New FIPA/OMG standards for agents
--Jim Odell, the acting chair of the FIPA IEEE Computer Society standards committee, recently sent out an update to the members on current activities...
Textbook piracy via BitTorrent on the rise
--The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on students using BitTorrent to share scanned copies of textbooks. The article, Textbook Piracy Grow...
Spammers are using Amazon EC2
--The Washington Posts Security Fix blog has a post, Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!, reporting on allegations that spammers are starting to ...
Blog comment spam magnet
--A good fraction of the comment spam that makes it through our Akismet filter is from people who are trying to add a comment to one of our posts abo...
Splogs and politics
--Here’s something I never expected: splogs as a political issue. Actually, it’s allegations of political blogs being splogs, or rather ...
Act before you think you think you think
--The WSJ has an article, Get Out of Your Own Way, on research suggesting that people have often form intentions to act and make decisions well befor...
NYC deploys wireless network for municipal employees
--Today’s New York Times has an article, With Wireless Network, City Agencies Have More Eyes in More Places, that describes a city wide wireles...
Microsoft rumored to buy semantic search startup Powerset
--Venture Beat reports that Microsoft will acquire Powerset for a price “rumored to be slightly more than $100 million”. Powerset has be...
Models? We don’t need no stinking models!
--Wired has an interesting article, The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, that discusses the data driven revolutio...
Journal of Web Semantics has high impact factor
--During the past year, the Journal of Web Semantics was added to the list of journals indexed by Thomson Reuters. Their most recent Journal Citatio...
Technology Review special issue on Web 2.0
--The July/August issue of Technology Review is focused on Web 2.0. The lead article, “The Business of Social Networks“, asks “Web...
Web Science CACM cover article now online
--The cover story of the July 2008 CACM (v51, n7) is Web Science by Jim Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Danny Weitzner. Th...
Is it Lindsay Lohan or your friends who make you a binge drinker?
--What determines our behavior or beliefs? Are we influenced by people who are the well-known and popular leaders — political, social, religiou...
Someday you will tell your children about this…
--A post on the UMBC Office of Information Technology blog announces that they are unplugging their modems. End of UMBC Modem Services June 2009 UMBC...
W3C anounces RDFa as a candidate recommendation
--The W3C has officially announced that RDFa is a candidate recommendation “2008-06-20: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has publishe...
First Obama-McCain Twitter debate starts tonight
--The Personal Democracy Forum is sponsoring a twitter debate tonight on “technology and government” between representatives of Barack Ob...
The singularity: when machines become conscious
--The June 2008 IEEE Spectrum is a special report on The Singularity which has many short and provocative articles available online. This is what Wi...
Encyclopedia Britannica to let readers contribute, à la Wikipedia
--Company’s site invites public to contribute, wiki-style, with rules to guard credibility When I was young, encyclopedias were the Web. I was...
Snoop: what our stuff says about us
--Sam Gosling of UT Austin has a book out on his research on how we project our self image through our possessions, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says Abo...
I want the iPhone NG, but …
--I admit — I was following along on engadget’s liveblog of Jobs’ WWDC keynote, looking for iPhone news. Most of what he said, thou...
Our MURI grant gets some press
--A UMBC led team recently won a MURI award from DoD to work on “Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle”. It is an interesting mix of work...
rdf:about is a concise collection of RDF resources
--Joshua Tauberer, a Upenn Linguistics graduate student, maintains rdf:about as a resouce of information on the semantic web language RDF. Its a con...
Tufekci on the new social physics
--Zeynep Tufekci gave a very interesting talk on “A Different Kind of Social Physics: Online Communities and the Revolution in the Architecture...
Colin de la Higuera on Grammatical Inference, 1pm Tue June 10, ITE 325, UMBC
--Colin de la Higuera of Jean Monnet University will talk on “ Grammatical Inference: Some of the Questions Out There ” at 1:00pm next Tu...
How the Web Was Won, an oral history of the Internet in Vanity Fair
--This month’s Vanity Fair has a feature article that lays out “an oral history of the Internet” in How the Web Was Won, part of a ...
Phoenix twittering from Mars
--MarsPhoenix is twittering from the North polar region of Mars. Here’s a great picture of my deployed arm with the scoop on the end: http://t...
Feedburner to include AdSense ads starting next week
--A post on the Feedburner blog, Into the wild: AdSense for feeds, annunced that Google will start integrating AdSense ads into feeds next week. ...
Provenance Tracking in Science Data Processing Systems
--Maybe we should think of data provenance as being like a recipe. Recipes for preparing food are more than just a list of ingredients and specify, ...
New API to make the New York Times programmable
--A post on mediabistro.com, New York Times Joining the Social Networking Fray, says that the New York Times will release an API that “will al...
Faviki uses Wikipedia and DBpedia for semantic tagging
--Faviki is a new social bookmarking system that uses Wikipedia articles for tags. It actually uses URLS in the DBpedia namespace that correspond to...
Ten essential numbers you need to know to be successful, and why
--10 numbers that you can master to improve your life
Int. Semantic Web Conf. workshop details
--The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) has an exciting program of thirteen one-day workshops that will be held on October 26 and 27. ...
The Missouri Mom (Lori Drew) case — Privacy Issues and New Legal Theories ?
--As the news media have all reported, Lori Drew has been indicted for her role in the death of a teenager. You may recall that this person, with her...
An account of the Estonian Internet War
--Gadi Evron has written an account of the “Estonian Internet War” in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Evron is a securi...
PhD proposal: Context and Policies in Declarative Networked Systems
--UMBC PhD student Palanivel Kodeswaran will present his dissertation proposal on Use of Context and Policies in Declarative Networked Systems at 3:3...
RPI group developing Second Life robot
--AP reports that an RPI group is developing a robot for Second Life, Researchers teach ‘Second Life’ avatar to think. Actually, it̵...
The Psychology of Social Networking on KQED Forum show
--Akshay Java pointed out an interesting radio program, Psychology of Social Networking, that’s available online for streaming or download. &#...
Students: brand yourself with a blog
--ACM’s TechCareers site offers “career-related resources, news and job postings for IT and engineering professions”. They recomme...
Social Data on the Web workshop at ISWC 2008
--This year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) will host a workshop on Social Data on the Web. Submitted papers are due by Jul...
Petrini: Streaming Applications on the Cell BE Processor, 3pm 5/13 UMBC
--Next Monday (3:00pm, May 13), Fabrizio Petrini will visit and give a presentation on Streaming Applications on the Cell B.E. Processor. Here’...
Gossip-Based Outlier Detection for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
--In this week’s UMBC ebiquity meeting (10am Tue may 6 in ITE 325), PhD student Wenjia Li will talk about his research on security and MANETs. ...
Int. Conf. Semantic Web deadlines this week and next (ISWC 2008)
--Deadlines for submitting papers, Doctoral Consortium applications and tutorial proposals for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference are ...
Chapman: Gridding Earth Sensing Scanning Instruments, 10am 10/5, ITE 325
--David Chapman will defend his MS thesis, A General Algorithm for Gridding Earth Sensing Scanning Instruments, at 10:00am Monday May 5 in room 325 ...
CFP Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks
--The call for the ISWC 2008 Sixth Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks is out. “We invite submissions to the sixth annual Semant...
Workshops selected for 2008 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
--The following workshops will be held as part of 2008 international Semantic Web Conference. Watch the 2008 ISWC workshop page for more information...
Comparison of Online Social Networks in Terms of Structure and Evolution
--Marcella Wilson will defend her dissertation, The Comparison of Online Social Networks in Terms of Structure and Evolution, at 11:15am May 1st in 3...
Fonolo is google for phone menus
--Remember when finding information on the Web was done by navigation using Gopher or Yahoo’s directory? I worked and we thought it was pretty...
Morgan Stanley Internet Trends: social computing dominates Web
--Morgan Stanley’s latest Internet Trends report emphasizes social computing. It contains the interesting observation that seven of the top ten...
Using semantic policies to manage border gateway route exchanges
--In this week’s ebiquity group meeting, Palani Kodeswaran will talk about his research in developing protocols to govern how network routers ...
Support for US students attending ISWC 2008
--The 2008 International Semantic Web Conference anticipate having funds from the US National Science Foundation to partially support students curren...
Roberts on Making Computer Science Fun Again, 4pm 4/24, ITE 213
--Professor Eric Roberts of Stanford will talk tomorrow (4:00pm Thur 24 April, 231 ITE) on Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making C...
ASUS P527 mobile smart phone
--I was very impressed with the ASUS eee PC, which is a well designed and engineered product that delivers a lot at a modest cost. Forbes has a stor...
Put cloud computing in your shopping cart
--Wired has a new article on Amazon’s Web Services, Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. “Click on “Amazon Web Services...
The 25 billion dollar eigenvector
--Is that a catchy title or what? No, and the story doesn’t involve Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade. See The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Li...
Jiawei Han: Research Challenges In Data Mining, 10am 4/22 LH8 UMBC
--Jiawei Han will give a talk tomorrow, Research Challenges In Data Mining at 10am in UMBC’s LH8 (1st floor ITE building). Here’s the ab...
UMBC video game class featured in Baltimore Sun
--Today’s Baltimore Sun has a good page-one story, Video games, from scratch, on the new UMBC games, animation and interactive media programs....
BusinessWeek ranks 50 most innovative companies
--Businessweek Magazine has a special set of articles on innovation in business in its April 28 issue. As in the past, they identified and tanked the...
Talis starts Nodalities magazine devoted to the Semantic Web
--Talis announced Nodalities — a magazine available in print and online devoted to the Semantic Web. They describe its mission as bridging ...
SocialDevCamp East BarCamp, May 10, Baltimore
--If you are are in the greater Baltimore area and interested in social computing technology and its applications you might consider going to the Soc...
W3C issues report on uncertainty reasoning for the Web
--Many tasks require representing and reasoning with uncertain knowledge and data. Current Semantic Web languages are grounded firmly in classical l...
Land of Lisp: follow the simple rules
--Conrad Barski is working on a new comic book, Land of Lisp, which will be published this Fall by No Starch Press. He posted a teaser back on April...
UMBC Computer Mania Day
--The sixth annual UMBC Computer Mania Day will be held at UMBC on Saturday, May 3, 2008. The event provides a half day of technology-related activi...
Economist on the Semantic Web
--The Economist has a short article on the Semantic Web, Start making sense that is positive and upbeat. “Big and small companies are getting...
Prediction markets go for Obama
--The prediction markets are bullish on Obama to win the Democratic nomination as their US presidential candidate. On Intrade, Obama is currently at...
Environmental detection/protection.
--EPA is on a web 2.0 kick. They sponsored a 2-day monster mashup exercise last Fall, the Puget Sound Information Challenge, and are making plans for...
College Board eliminates AP computer science AB test
--See update below. The College Board has decided to eliminate their Advanced Placement test in computer science. It’s well known that the num...
Solving Rubik’s Cube requires 25 or fewer moves
--Tomas Rokicki has written up a proof that any Rubik’s Cube configuration can be solved in 25 or fewer moves. In his paper, Twenty-Five Moves...
DHS National Cyber Security Center head has focus on leaderless organizations
--The appointment of Rod Beckstrom as the new head of the DHS National Cyber Security Center is interesting, if somewhat controversial. See, for exa...
Visualizing social networks
--FAS Research is an Austrian company that specializes in social network analysis. Their site has a nice collections of social network visualizations...
How important is gravity?
--You drop a pen on the moon. Does the pen a) float off into space, b) float where it is, or c) fall down? Disturbingly, a majority answers either a ...
How important is gravity?
--You drop a pen on the moon. Does the pen a) float off into space, b) float where it is, or c) fall down? Disturbingly, a majority answers either a ...
Synthetic biology at SciBarCamp
--Tim’s away. The blog is ours! Now I can finally post about SciBarCamp, held last weekend in Toronto, and the most interesting meeting I’...
Call for ISWC 2008 Research Papers
--The call for ISWC 2008 research papers for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference is online. The track is co-chaired by Amit Sheth and...
Call for ISWC 2008 Research Papers
--The call for ISWC 2008 research papers for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference is online. The track is co-chaired by Amit Sheth and...
Call for ISWC 2008 Research Papers
--The call for ISWC 2008 research papers for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference is online. The track is co-chaired by Amit Sheth and...
Words your mobile phone is not allowed to say
--Language models are widely used in processing both written and spoken language. They are used for part of speech tagging, sense tagging, disambigua...
MIT NYTE project visualizes New York communications
--AP has an article, MIT Creates Picture of NY Communications, that highlights work of New York Talk Exchange (NYTE) project being done in the MIT SE...
WIkipedia research papers
--Mike Bergman has a comprehensive list of about 100 papers on Wikipedia as a knowledge source. “Since about 2005 — and at an accelerating pac...
Hand, foot, circles and sixes
--I think our nervous systems must be wired up a bit strangely.
Join the ICWSM community on CrowdVine
--We invite you to join the ICWSM 2008 social networking community site hosted by CrowdVine. ICWSM 2008 is the Second International Conference on We...
No spam on Twitter?!
--Can it be true? Russell Beattie posts that on Twitter there are nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls. Spam does exist on Twitter, of cou...
Wisdom of the crowd control?
--Slate has an interesting article, The Wisdom of the Chaperones — Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy, that explores who contro...
Call for ISWC 2008 posters and demos
--The call for ISWC 2008 posters and demos for the the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference is out. The poster/demo session is an opportuni...
Google slow to index blog posts?
--Last week I noticed that some of our blog posts took a long time to show up in the Google Blog search index. During the past year, Google has been...
US Government predicts growing IT job market
--The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases regular projections for changes in demands for different job categories. The Computing Research Associa...
Exascale computing targets million fold increase in supercomputing
--Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories have established the Institute for Advanced Architectures to work toward computers that are a million ti...
How to use XFN (XML Friends Network)
--Brian Suda has a good, practical article on XFN on opera.dev — XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations. “In this article I will t...
ISWC 2008 call for doctoral consortium papers
--The 2008 Intternational Semantic Web Conference Doctoral Consortium (DC) allows PhD students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors...
Total lunar eclipse 10pm EST (GMT-5) Wed 2/20
--A total lunar eclipse will be visible from the US this Wednesday evening, February 20th with the maximal effect at 10:26pm EST. The eclipse will b...
Sprint offering femto cells in selected markets
--Technology Review has an interesting article on femtocells, which may be the next big thing in home networking and mobile computing. “Simila...
CFP: ISWC 2008 Semantic Web in Use
--ISWC 2008, the 7th International Semantic Web Conference, will have a special track on the Semantic Web in Use for papers that highlight applicatio...
Call for ISWC 2008 tutorial proposals
--ISWC 2008, the 7th International Semantic Web Conference, seeks proposals for tutorials that present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area en...
Approximating the Community Structure of the Long Tail
--Social Networks and Web graphs exhibit certain typical properties. The classic work by Barabási–Albert showed how nodes in such network link prefer...
Screedbot, the scrolling typewriter text generator
--Screedbot is an “animated scrolling typewriter text generator” service. You enter some text, click CREATE SCREED and get an animated g...
ICWSM early registration extended to 23:59 Monday 2/18
--The Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008) will be held March 30 - April 2, 2008 at the Hilton in Seattle, Washin...
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Google Tech Talk: All The Information In The World, The Way You Want It | webBackplane
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