Internet 2
I think the idea of a networking consortium that allows for collaboration among academics, government, researchers and industry is fascinating. From what I interpreted, their goal is to build upon and improve the Internet by building new technologies and with research. Internet 2 already provides a Internet infrastructure that surpasses what is currently available commercially to its members.
While using the site, I did feel a bit of information overload and lost in some of the verbiage. I'm still learning. Anyways, I was particularly interested in finding out the member organizations and curious to see Rutgers was one of the participating university institutions. And guess what? We are! After some digging around, I found it the link: http://internet2.rutgers.edu/
I also thought it was great that it provided software and applications kits for download to its members.
Semantic Web
Okay the website was a bit confusing for me, so many links! I really liked the video that mara had posted on her blog that describes in words that I can understand what the semantic web is all about. Here is again for those who haven't seen it. Thanks again mara!
So its all about the the syntax (html) and the semantics. How to improve computer's understanding of what it is they are searching for and retrieving; actively helping us and improving searches. Making the web better!!!
Can computer really understand meaning? It's crazy how far technology has come.
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