Labeling the web, one page at a time?
Indexing every page on the web is challenge enough. Labeling each web page is something else entirely. Well that’s a recent idea of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Internet. Bad idea? Depends how you go about it, really…
@Home with Grid Computing
The ubiquity of computing is such that on occasion, we’re almost at the point where we’re no longer aware that we’re even using a computer at all. Suddenly, computers start appearing everywhere in almost everything, even your washing machine and refrigerator — but what are the benefits to ubiquitous computer power?
The price of privacy on the ‘Net
Google recently announced that they intend anonymizing the IP addresses they store on their servers after nine months. For privacy advocates, this will no doubt be seen as a triumph. For the vast majority of people out there, they just couldn’t care less…
Artificial Intelligence: a pattern of things to come
Artificial Intelligence, or AI is one of the most enduring themes of science fiction. How close are we? Depends what you want from AI. If you were to map the progress of Artificial Intelligence along the progression of a humans life, in many respects, AI is still a toddler playing with coloured blocks…
Google to finally socialize search?
Google may finally be preparing to launch a user-generated search ranking system as an extension of their search product. But what if Google could also turn their search product into the biggest Social Media platform in the world?
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