Archive | January, 2009

SEAmail – Semantic Delivery of Emails

23 Jan

SEAmail is a prototype e-mail system implemented by Stanford University Logic Group lead by  Michael Genesereth, an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University. The interesting and innovative part of this e-mail system is the use of semantic technologies in order to determine the recipient of an e-mail message. Users don’t have to bother [...]

SuggestRSS – Great Service to suggest interesting feeds

22 Jan

SuggestRSS is a service suggesting feeds based on your actual feeds. Just upload a OPML export of your current subscribed feeds and you are going to get nice new suggestions. I tried it out and think it is very useful. (via ReadWriteWeb) Related articles by Zemanta SuggestRSS Goodbye, share.opml.org SuggestRSS: Super Simple New Feed Recommendations [...]

How Google’s PageRank predicts Nobel Prize winners

22 Jan

Sergej Maslow and Sidney Redner, both researchers have found out that Google‘s Page Rank algorithm could be used to predict future nobel price winners based on interlinked scientific papers. Scientific papers are interlinked by references, just like websites are which means they can be ranked by googles page rank algorithm. Taking into account how important [...]

[video] – It is time for a different kind of university

19 Jan

Kaplan University has produced two interesting and inspiring videos on how e-Learning can be performed in near future. It’s time to use technology to rewrite the rules of education … Here is another one. Besides I have found an interesting article written by George Siemens on How MIT is going to get large lectures off [...]

Linking Open Data – Anwendungen für Endanwender

16 Jan

Für die Lehrveranstaltung “Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten” bei Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann habe ich einen Artikel zum Thema “Linking Open Data – Anwendungen für Endanwender” geschrieben. Auszug aus dem Abstract: Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit Anwendungen, die das Linking Open Data Konzept verwenden. Zuerst wird auf das Open Data Movement eingegangen und anschließend auf [...]