Scrabble Attempts to Go Hip
It is a sad, sad day for word lovers’ around the world. Scrabble has announced it is adding slang words to their dictionary. I think I’d like to challenge that.
Xplana Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Enhancement
Xplana.com, a digital content and social learning education platform, has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner for the next release of its Xplana learning platform, to be launched in August 2011.
The Accidental Taxonomist Now Available on Kindle
We have talked about the evolution of the e-book, e-readers and digital content. We have often referred to Heather Hedden’s contribution to the world of taxonomy and specifically her book, The Accidental Taxonimist. Now we can talk about both in the same article.
IEEE Seeking Findability
We reported on IEEE’s collaboration with Access Innovations awhile back, but couldn’t help pointing out an interview they did explaining their project that actually began in 2006.
That’s What She Said?
Did you ever think a computer could tell a joke? Or even have a sense of humor? Semantic technology continues to progress as two University of Washington researchers put their coding skills to the test. They developed a computer program that can identify whether a seemingly benign sentence might turn risqué if you add on "that's what she said."
Two Powerful Resources Join Together
Combining massive resources, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com have joined forces to help people research the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors. The millions of records from WWII victims will be combined into a specially designed software program by Ancestry, dubbed the World Memory Project.