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Singularity Summit 2007: It's about the money: AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike previous generations of AIs, which has more specialized functions covering a constrained domain, these...; Tags: Consensus, Advanced General Intelligence, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Singularity Summit 2007: The Pell iCan brief: Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...; Tags: Brain, Robot, Mr., Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence: Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...; Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Searching for human-like search: Search is the motherload of the Internet today, as has been proven by Google. But it is still clunky and you end up with 149,000,000 results for "ajax" delivered in .05 seconds. At the Web 2.0 Summit, hakia showed a beta of its "meaning-based" search engine. According to the company,...; Tags: Web 2.0, SEARCH, Barney Pell; Blog posts 2006-11-08

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Kids NetLinks (zip): Kids NetLinks provides kids and parents the easiest method available for providing the top kids website's shortcuts to kids learning and fun websites with matching custom wallpapers, along with matching selections for updates to I.E. homepage. URLs include Barney, Elmo, Sesame Street, Thomas the Train, and more. Add shortcuts from...; Tags: Shortcut, Web Site, Kids NetLinks, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-07-22

Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught: Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...; Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Powerset brings semantic Wikipedia search to the iPhone: May's Semantic Web Gang spoke with Powerset CTO Barney Pell in the week of their big launch last month. The company has followed up on that work, unveiling an iPhone-friendly version of their enhanced Wikipedia search. If you have an iPhone, take a look....; Tags: Apple iPhone, Wikipedia, Wiki, Semantic Web, Online Communications, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all: Earlier today I downloaded the latest Live CD for Ophcrack, the Windows password cracker, and tried it out on a Vista install to see how good of a password buster it is. Conclusion: Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all. ...; Tags: Password, Strong Password, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang: Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members also discuss Yahoo! SearchMonkey and next week's Semantic Technology Conference in this hour-long conversation recorded yesterday. by...; Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Powerset shows semantic search solution: Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...; Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door": Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"What do you expect?From the loosers at ValleyWag and the rest of the SV echochamber?They're like Hillary Clinton. Screeching and screeching lies until people believe they are true.I was actually expecting a refutationAll you've really said is that law enforcement doesn't need a...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Windows (in)security and open source: Windows insecurity and open sourceIt is "Fife", not "Fyfe"Despite the link you posted to an article discussing "Barney Fyfe Syndrome", per IMDB the character's last name was "Fife".As to the topic, I do think the security folks want us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!Funny you...; Tags: error rate, OSS, security, Microsoft Windows, open source; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
Windows (in)security and open source: Windows security is a good gig. (Picture from BuyersMLS, which has many other old TV mash-ups.) McAfee Inc. is worth over $5 billion and Symantec which also does other things is worth over $14 billion. Both have risen to prominence based on proprietary models...; Tags: Open Source, Knowledge, Microsoft Windows, Security, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-15
As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users: The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...; Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Why kill Google?: Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today's Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of this obsession. Have Larry and Sergey done something to upset them? Did they all have...; Tags: Google Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-03-28
Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web': At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-03-03
If yesterday's ruling holds, TorrentSpy must die: If yesterday's ruling holds, TorrentSpy must dieI might agree that...... torrentspy.com should be shut down but not that torrents should be made illegal. I use them regularly for downloading my Linux ISOs and it would be very inconvenient to not be able to use them. Classifying torrents as a 'den...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, TorrentSpy; Discussion threads 2007-12-19
New Intel architectures hold promise for a new crop of educational laptops: New Intel architectures hold promise for a new crop of educational laptopskathylExactly right! The village in Indonesia where Negroponte distributed the XOs is not too different from where I teach community college students to use computers: limited electricity and more limited wireless; erratic transportation and lots of poverty....; Tags: Notebooks, New Intel architecture, NEW Intel, new crop, laptop computer, crop; Discussion threads 2007-12-04
Microsoft to hike spending on Embedded: Microsoft to hike spending on EmbeddedMicrosoft to hike spending on EmbeddedWindows Everywhere! I like the sound of that.Why Not Get on the Android Band Wagon?I just do not understand. We have had a sea change in the industry. Ballmer's family connection to Ford may have gotten WinCE into a...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Management, Android, Embedded, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows CE; Discussion threads 2007-11-14
House measure would force schools to become Napster customers: Not only does your progressive-minded Democratic Congress want to sic the Justice Department on file-sharers, it also wants to force colleges to underwrite subscription-based music services. News.com reports that a new bill in the House, inserted into a huge spending bill for higher education, would not only...; Tags: University, Student, Napster Inc., Piracy, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-11-09