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Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off -- Government Computer News
"Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off
Lack of tools, training and education hamper the still-nascent effort, Web founder admits"
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When you look at putting government data on the Web, one of the concerns is … to not just put it out there on Excel files on Data.gov," he said. "You should put these things in" the Resource Description Framework.
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Few Web site managers are trained in RDF, and not many Web development applications use the standard, Berners-Lee admitted. "I'm not sure we have a grasp of our needs for the next phase of products," he said. He implored the semantic Web community in the audience to educate and inspire their peers. The people they need to talk to, he said, "are not going to be found in these corridors," referring to the conference attendees themselves.
04 Nov 09
Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine? - Harvard Business Review
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Government-funded basic and applied research at U.S. universities has given rise to multi-billion-dollar industry after multi-billion-dollar industry. It has been one of the pillars of the U.S. high tech sector. But at least in information technology, the model has been seriously weakened by changes that the administration of George W. Bush instituted at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which in the prior 30 years had bankrolled some of the most important advances in IT. Specifically, DARPA under Bush drastically reduced the role of universities in IT research projects it funded and shifted both power and money to companies. If the old DARPA model is not restored, the U.S. lead in IT — especially in software — could be lost
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many factors gave the U.S. a competitive advantage in the commercialization of emerging technologies. They included: An unrivaled university system A relatively free domestic market that honed the competitive skills of its companies A robust venture capital and IPO market that fueled and then rewarded winners Clusters.
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30 Oct 09
Open source identity: Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson - frameworks, open source, open source identity, ruby - CIO
"Rails helped kick-start the interest in frameworks, especially for PHP programmers"
14 Oct 09
An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL - AMPL, AWK, a-z of programming languages, Brian Kernighan - Computerworld
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Programming today depends more and more on combining large building blocks and less on detailed logic of little things, though there's certainly enough of that as well.
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