Computers figuring out what words mean

They might be able to build an AI that can surf the Web for me, but no machine can replace me until it learns to pay taxes, complain, gossip and contribute to economic growth by shopping. ""We have taught the computer virtually all the meanings of words and phrases in the...

Google may be displaced, says World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, believes Google will be superseded as the internet search tool of choice as new web technology emerges.  What Google has done in terms of creating an effective way to search the internet is nothing compared to what...

How postal rules affect bulk mail

Every time the United States Postal Service changes the price of a stamp, there is a flurry of articles reminiscing about the days when it cost only pennies to send a letter. Well, right now the Postal Service is implementing the largest change in business mailing in decades,...

Semantic Wikipedia

"New Scientist reports on German project to create a Semantic MediaWiki (MediaWiki is the software behind Wikipedia, Semantic is hidden/encoded meta-data). A sample page markup using the relations annotation. What do the Wikipedia (Wikimedia) folks think of implementing it?...