Daniel Lewis

OK, so in my last post (”RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way“) I said that RDF is a modeling framework to link data together in the form of object to object relationships, I briefly mentioned some “vocabularies” (aka ontologies) and some formats (e.g. Notation3, RDF/XML). I want to mention again […]

[Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn’t get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted “Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web” at 2:19am this morning. […]

I just had a little thought about how to explain the Ontologies that you find on the Semantic Web. You could say:
An Ontology is a bit like a thesaurus, but with a hierarchy of terms each with its own properties
SemWeb people: Does this make sense?
Non SemWeb people: I wonder if this is a useful way […]

After reading a blog post by Ben Goertzel about formalising Consciousness and Will using Hyperset Theory, I delved into reminding myself about some set theory and learning a lot about Hypersets.
I was quite astonished to find that the whole of the RDF language is perfect for Hyperset theory. Thank you Ben for writing that blog […]

Just a note to say that if you are in the Oxford area on the 6th February (2008) then please, please come to the Oxford Geek Night 5. Its at the Jericho Tavern Pub in Oxford and starts at 7:30pm. It features a bit of socialising, a bit of watching presentations and some fun.
If you […]

Fanuc M-430iA. Its a food/pharmaceuticals packing machine, but its movement is almost organic. Its semi-automatic, it picks up the product and puts it in a pack, so I am guessing it must have some kind of Machine Vision algorithms.
There is a BBC Video Clip available
Some additional information is on an Engaget Article.
Its cool, and worth […]

OWL (Web Ontology Language) is a Semantic Web vocabulary. With OWL we can build up terms and relationships of terms to give explicit meaning to those terms, this obviously has a benefit when we come to actually giving instances to these terms. (just so we are on the same wavelength: Watch is a term, whereas […]