Daniel’s Blog

For those interested my podcast is available here:
http://talk.talis.com/archives/2007/11/daniel_lewis_ta.html
Paul Miller and I talk about how the Social Web and the Semantic Web are related, and what we might see in the near future (what might be titled “Web 3.0″).
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Hi all,
I am now without a job. Reason: I only had a 3 month contract at Curverider.
So I am currently very actively looking for a job, if you know there is one available then let me know.

I’d prefer to work in the Oxford area
I can do full time, but would consider part time
I can work […]

Why does it seem that businesses are anti-academia? by academia I mean university research, or just a general theory point of view, or a standardised approach…. in fact its quite weird because there are a lot of people against this point of view.
But without research new business cannot exist. Yes we can make modifications on […]

Something for you to think about:
Through the 80s and 90s Artificial Intelligence didn’t do very well, before then there was such a buzz about machine intelligence. AI was traditionally about pattern analysis and finding new information, this was usually within business or science applications - this basically died during the 80s, and we didn’t see […]

[Rough Transcript:]
Hello everybody, just wanted to give you a quick update on what I’ll be doing this month.
First of all - on the 20th November, I’ll be interviewed by Paul Miller (From Talis) on the Talking with Talis podcast.
Then I’ll be one of about 12 giving talks about the Semantic Web at a special […]

I have been accepted on to the: “MSc in Advanced Computing (Machine Learning and Data Mining)” postgraduate degree at the University of Bristol!
I feel so pleased, and so hyper about it - its fantastic… because Bristol University is a wonderful university, and it recently achieved 3rd best in the country in the Times Online for […]

This app is very closely treading near my area of interest - using the semantic web in a social web way. This is Twine, its currently in beta testing… and even Tim O’Reilly has blogged about it!
I’ll be keeping a very close eye on Twine and Radar Networks over the next few months, I’ll want […]

I am going to try my best not to laugh at HTML5, I read a little while ago that someone was going to create HTML5 as a “representation of the type of code that is currently on the web” (sorry can’t find the site where I read that from - so no reference, you are […]

Prof. Hong Zhu speaks out about the role of Delphi as a first year programming language at Oxford Brookes University:
Dear Daniel,
In response to your call for discussions, my personal view on this issue is
that:
First, we are teaching programming using Delphi environment and OO extended Pascal as the programming language for practical and lecturing purposes. A […]

I was thinking about the previous blog post I made about first year undergrad programming languages (found here)
I shall express my opinion, feeling and experience about programming languages:

My first programming languages (before uni) were: QBASIC, VisualBASIC and C++. I found using Delphi very awkward when I came to uni, it was like walking into a […]