YossarianLives Promises Metaphorical Search
YossarianLives, a new search engine named after the main character of Catch-22, offers a different breed of search: instead of providing users with answers, this search engine offers up metaphors. The article explains, “Typing ‘love’ into Google, I find the Wikipedia entry, a ‘relationship calculator’ and Lovefilm, a DVD rental service. Doing the same in YossarianLives, a new search engine due to launch this year, I might receive quite different results: ‘river’, ‘sleep’ and ‘prison’. Its creators claim YossarianLives is a metaphorical search engine, designed to spark creativity by returning disparate but conceptually related terms. So the results perhaps make sense if you accept that love can ebb and flow, provide rejuvenating comfort or just make you feel trapped.” continued…
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ThingWorx Partners with Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator
A recent article announces, “ThingWorx™, the provider of the first application platform for the connected world, announced its partnership today with Carnegie Mellon’s Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (PSII). The ThingWorx platform will be used to gather and manage real-time information communicated by sensors and other connected devices tied to physical infrastructure. ThingWorx joins IBM and a host of innovative companies that are providing a range of technologies and tools to regional universities and institutions in an effort to blend traditional physical-infrastructure, such as transportation systems and buildings, with cyber-infrastructure- computers, networks, and sensors.” continued…
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Semantic Web Jobs: L-3
L-3 Communications is looking for an Enterprise Architect/Software Development Lead in Fort Belvoir, VA. The post states, “In this role you will Lead a team, in an agile development environment utilizing Java/J2EE and other open source tools to develop software products and applications. You will functionality provided by the tools include but is not limited to: data cleansing/reformatting to facilitate natural language processing, entity extraction from multiple data sources both structured and un-structured as part of a larger Intelligence Analytic Suite; and Geo-Spatial representation of entity resolution.” continued…
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Tracking People in the News with Newsle
Newsle.com, a web app that tracks people in the news, has released a new version featuring instant news alerts about users’ friends, colleagues, favorite public figures, or themselves. The startup also announced $600,000 in seed funding from Lerer Media Ventures, SV Angel, and an independent investor. According to the company website, “Newsle’s private beta launched in January 2011, and was covered by TechCrunch. The current version is a major evolution of the original concept. Newsle now combs the web continuously, analyzing over 1 million articles each day – every major news article and blog post published online, as well as most minor ones. Newsle’s core technology is its disambiguation algorithm, which determines whether an article mentioning “John Smith” is about the right person.” continued…
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Nanode / twitter blink example
Here are some notes on my adventures trying to make an ethernet connected Nanode that blinks when certain words are mentioned on twitter. I was working with Mac OS X and there were a few gotchas, so I’ve mentioned them here so I don’t forget and in case anything is useful to anyone else. There’s an exciting video of the resulting beast here featuring the acrylic case from the excellent and fast SKPang. The code (an unholy mixture of C++ and Processing) is here. I was coming at this as someone who’d previously only got blinking and similar going on a Arduino Duemilanove.
Getting the Nanode working
- Buy a Nanode (ethernet Arduinos are also available, I chose a Nanode because it was recommended to me, also their support is very good and it arrived very quickly. I think in retrospect it’s a bit hard to use for a real novice like me, though I enjoyed finding out…). I got a prebuilt Nanode RFX (which has a Hope RF shield and a microSD slot). You need to also buy a Programming Adaptor, which you need in order to talk to a Nanode as the USB programming interface isn’t built in.
- Download the Arduino IDE
- Install the FTDI driver (see this comment, which helped me out a lot) – installing it will restart your computer. This is a different driver to the one you use with a standard Arduino – see the Arduino guide if you’re not using a Nanode
- Open the blink Arduino example (under file -> examples -> Basic, or here) and change the output to 6
- Connect the Nanode to the Mac using the FTDI cable using a USB cable
- In the IDE, set the port to the new driver and the board to ‘Arduino Duemilanove with ATMega 328′
- Compile and run the Blink example on the Nanode
- The default LED on the Nanode should blink
- Celebrate
Connecting up Ethernet
- Install Ethernet Library -> cd ~/Documents/Arduino; mkdir libraries
- Download EtherCard library and unzip it in this directory
- Restart the Arduino IDE and you should see sketch / import library – a new library (not Ethernet but EtherCard at the bottom)
- Start a new sketch
- Next I copied and pasted this WebClient example from EtherCard into a new file, and that formed the basis of my code.
- Click on sketch / import library – and import EtherCard – and it puts some import statements at the top
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Add this at the top: #include
<stdint.h> - Connect it to an ethernet connection (e.g. I shared airport to ethernet connection on my mac)
The one problem I had was that it appeared to work intermittently, or once per restart of the board. I think this must have been some sort of race condition. Anyway, I solved it by adding a tiny wait after these two lines:
void loop () {
ether.packetLoop(ether.packetReceive());
delay(100); //<-- add this.
...
If you look then at the serial monitor (button with the little magnifing glass on the top right of the Arduino IDE), you should see some results. Click restart on the Nanode if not. It takes a while to get the IP address.
A couple of useful links:
OCLC Makes FAST Available for Bulk Download
According to a new announcement, “OCLC Research has made FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) available for bulk download, along with some minor improvements based on user feedback and routine updates. As with other FAST data, the bulk downloadable versions are available at no charge. FAST is an enumerative, faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). OCLC made FAST available as Linked Open Data in December 2011.” continued…
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UK’s BIS Dissolves Public Data Corporation
Mark Ballard has commented on the UK’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills’ recent action to dissolve the Public Data Corporation “while its confused policy Cabinet joint Office initiative team works out how to make open data workable. The Cabinet Office rushed out a revamped Open Data strategy on 29 November, ‘delivering on its commitment to establish a Public Data Corporation’. BIS had already established the Public Data Corporation as a private company on 11 November 2010. But the company had laid dormant for a year while the departments and the Local Public Data Panel worked out how to get an HM data-set free-for-all round the vast bellies of such comfortable institutions as the Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and Met Office.” continued…
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Semantic Web Jobs: GE Global Research
GE’s Global Research segment is looking for a Semantic Scientist in Niskayuna, NY. According to the post, “As a Semantic Lead Scientist, you will work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop tools and ontologies for application to a diverse set of industrial, service and financial problems. You will demonstrate a strong technical background and independently execute projects in areas of model development, semantic and ontology technology specification and development, and information extraction.” continued…
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Kyield Announces Pilot Program for New Semantic Enterprise Platform
Kyield recently announced “a new pilot program for its recently patented semantic enterprise platform. The artificial intelligence system provides a holistic architecture that extends advanced business intelligence and predictive analytics to all information workers in the organization with an adaptive approach to data optimization.” Kyield CEO Mark Montgomery stated, “We are inviting well-matched organizations to collaborate with us in piloting our breakthrough system to bring a higher level of performance to the information workplace… In addition to the significant competitive advantage exclusive to our pilot program, we are offering attractive long-term incentives free from lock-in, maintenance fees, and high service costs traditionally associated with the enterprise software industry.” continued…
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James Hendler on the State of the Semantic Web
James Hendler was recently interviewed regarding the state of the World Wide Web and advances in semantic technology. Asked about the proliferation of the web, Hendler commented, “The Web is changing very fast and it has a very rapid effect on our economy. Consider something like aeroplanes which, as a subject, has been studied all along. On the contrary, the Web has happened so fast and hit so many places that we never really had time to understand it. Many of the periodical works on the Web are being done on the data collected in 1999. In 1999 Facebook didn’t exist. Twitter didn’t exist. A lot of people study Twitter. But again that is just one thing. Wikipedia has been successful, while most ‘wikis’ have failed. Online, we are now discovering the power of the (individual’s) voice and governments do not know how to deal with it.” continued…
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