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Standards Are Necessary To Fight Cyber Theft
Security issues and cyber theft continue to grow in complexity as technology itself advances. Standard metrics and measurements are essential when assessing IT resilience.
Read MoreOntology Competition
Rearden Commerce has announced its sponsorship of a category of The World Championship for Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), Large Theory division. The competition showcases the latest advancements in logical reasoning.
Read MoreNew Partnership Brings Content Management and Social Software Together
Alfresco has joined forces with Jive Software to bring content management into social software’s neighborhood.
Read MoreWorkshop on Semantics and Services
Atwood Technology is hosting the third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS3) at its headquarters in Miramichi, New Brunswick, on May 18, 2011.
Read MoreFrankfurt Conference Addresses Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the topic of a conference in Frankfurt, Germany scheduled for August 15-20, 2011. AICOL (AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems) 2011 is set to further develop models of legal knowledge, concerning its organization, structure and content, in order to promote mutual understanding and communication between different legal systems and cultures.
Read MoreThe Power of Data
At least weekly, we read a new article about the volume of data being created around the world. The increase of metadata has dramatically grown and the vehicles delivering it continue to multiply. To put numbers to the adjectives, Wal-Mart now handles more than one million customer transactions every hour and Facebook is reportedly home to some 40 billion photos.
Read MoreNASA Hosting Open Source Summit 2011
As we write, NASA is hosting its first-ever summit around open source technology. This obvious support of the open source community is being held at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The two-day Open Source Summit 2011 will gather engineers, policy makers, and members of the open source community to discuss how the agency can become a larger player in this sector.
Read MoreThe Importance of Linked Data
In its purest form, linked data can be found at the research desk in any library. Access to sources and pertinent information connected to but beyond your initial inquiry, can make your results more inclusive and dynamic.
Read MoreTaiwan’s Think Tank Working in the Clouds
Taiwan GIS Centre — the country’s “think tank” — is developing a web-based spatial decision support system on the Government Cloud, which would enable the central and local government, private industries, and the general public to access spatial information through various medium.
Read MoreOMG and EDM Council Addressing Interoperability Issues
OMG and EDM Council are working together to help organizations transform their data into “actionable intelligence” in an effort to support systemic risk assessment and analytics.
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