Towards a Web of Knowledge
R.V. Guha
Epinions
Abstract
The web today is a large document repository. Very little of the
information on the web is machine understandable. It is gradually moving
towards becoming a repository of data. The real challenge is to take if
from being a repository of data to a Web of Knowledge. In this talk, I
will describe some of the infrastructure that is being build, such as
RDF and the Open Directory, that might enable us to reach this goal.
Biography
Guha is a founder and the CTO at Epinions.com. Before that, he was
a Principal Scientist at Netscape where he helped create the Resource
Description Framework. He has a PhD from Stanford in Computer Science
and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley.