Seminar Information

Most of the vast amount of information available on the Web today is expressed in formats that are designed primarily for human consumption and that make the information essentially uninterpretable by computers.  Major advances in intelligent information processing can become realizable by developing means for enabling the information that is routinely put on the Web to be in computer interpretable form, and there is increasing activity in the computer science research and development communities focused on achieving that goal.  This seminar is a weekly series of presentations and discussions aimed at understanding that activity and furthering the development of computer-interpretable Web documents, languages in which they are written, techniques for interpreting them, tools for creating them, and innovative uses for them.

These seminars are open to the public.

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A complementary seminar focused on Ontologies, E-Commerce, XML, and Metadata (CS 545) is organized by the InfoLab.
 

Autumn Quarter Schedule 1999

 

	Sept. 24	Jeff Heflin, Ph.D Student, University of Maryland	SHOE, a Markup Language For Representing Knowledge on the Web (Abstract)
	Sept. 29	Jeff Heflin, Ph.D Student, University of Maryland	SHOE, a Markup Language For Representing Knowledge on the Web (continued) (Abstract)
	Oct. 6	Tom Gruber, Chief Technical Officer for Intraspect	Creating an Organizational Memory from Knowledge Work (Abstract)
	Oct. 13	Keith Edwards,  Research Staff in the Computer Sciences Laboratory at Xerox PARC (Author of "Core Jini")	An Overview of the Jini Distributed Computing Infrastructure (Abstract)
	Oct. 20	Ramanathan Guha, Chief Technical Officer, Epinion (Co-developer of CYC)	From a Web of Documents to a Web of Knowledge (Abstract)
	Oct. 27	Mike Genesereth, Associate Professor, Stanford University Computer Science Department and Chief Technology Officer of Mergent Systems	Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Databases The Relational Logic Approach (Abstract)
	Nov. 3	Cancelled
	Nov. 10	Daniel G. Bobrow, Research Fellow, Xerox PARC	Eureka, Using the Web as a Community Knowledge Medium (Abstract)
	Nov. 17 9:00 am	Doug Lenat, President and CEO of CYCORP	E-CYC:  Common Sense Moves to the Web (Abstract) (Presentation Slices)
	Nov. 17 10: 30 am	Benjamin Grosof, of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	Business Rules for E-Commerce on the Web: Courteous Logic Programs in XML, for Contracts and Authorization (Abstract)
	Nov. 24	Cancelled
	Dec. 1	Lawrence M. Fagan, M.D., Ph.D. Stanford Medical Informatics  Dan Berrios, M.D., M.P.H. VA Palo Alto Health Care System Stanford Medical Informatics	Research Directions in Electronic Medical Publishing (Abstract)