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UMBC ebiquity research blog
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EBB is the ebiquity research group's blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea.
Recent Posts
EU approves law requiring user consent for Web cookies
This ought to be fun. According to an article in the WSJ, Europe Approves New Cookie Law, “the Council of the European Union has approved new legislation that would require Web users to consent to Internet cookies..” The law could have b...
XKCD on elections and voting
Around here we prefer range voting to approval voting or IRV. ...
A review of the Google Go programming language
Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer who’s written a long, detailed and informed review of Google’s new programming language Go. It’s worth a read if you are interested in understanding what it’s like as a programmi...
CFP: JWS special issue on semantic search
Yong Yu and Rudi Studer are editing a special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on semantic search that will appear in the summer 2010. The special issue will cover interdisciplinary topics between Semantic Web and search. See the call for paper...
Google VP on semantic search and the Semantic Web
PCWorld has a story, Google VP Mayer Describes the Perfect Search Engine, with some interesting comments on semantic search from Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of Search Products & User Experience. “IDGNS: What’s the s...
Can cloud computing be entirely trusted?
The Economist has been running a series of online Oxford Union style debates on topical issues — CEO pay, healthcare, climate change, etc. The latest one is on the cloud computing: This house believes that the cloud can’t be entirely trus...
