| The Semantic Web The Semantic Web Revisited (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| In the 50 years since the term AI was coined at the Dartmouth Conference, the digital world has evolved at a prodigious rate. It has produced an information infrastructure that few would have anticipated—with the possible exception of Vannevar Bush, 1 although even he might have thought the scale of achievement extraordinary. Today, the World Wide Web links 10 billion pages, and search engines can divine themes embodied in the links to serve useful and relevant content almost instantaneously. Fifty years ago it might have appeared audacious to build a global web of information, to deploy semantics on such a scale, and to attempt inference over the resulting components. Fifty years ago, even if you could have explained it, a Semantic Web would have seemed as remote as general AI. Yet today we believe that the Semantic Web is attainable. | |||||||||||||||
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