Tetherless World Constellation

Jim HendlerDeb McGuinnesshttp://tw.rpi.edu/

What is a Constellation?

"Rensselaer Plan" identifies constellations Multiple chaired professors (3 is typical)

May be from multiple depts Outside Dept Structure

Integrative centers for interdisciplinary work Separate funding lines Faculty lines not charged to dept (I.e. don't compete w/dept

hires) Report to President's Office Key areas: Biotechnology and Information Technology

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Figure 1: The Web presents new challenges to software engineering and application development.

Tetherless World Constellation

Tetherless World started in 2007 Originally aimed at robots and mobility

Now focused on "beyond the Web" computing Now focused on Semantic eScience

Affiliate Program Started Fujitsu Labs of America, Lockheed Martin ATL

Significant joint work with MIT CSAIL DIG Group Joint grants Joint (no cost) appts

Creating new courses Semantic Web (F/07) Web Science (S/08) Semantic eScience (F/08)

Leaders in Semantic Web

Berners-Lee, Hendler, Lassila, 2001 > 5000 citations in 5 years

Hendler DARPA PM for "DAML" program, McGuinness seedling developer and major fundee

Hendler Chaired "Web Ontology Working Group", McGuinness key player and author of several key documents

Several highly cited coauthorships Work w/industry in and out of W3C

"Web 3.0" startups Leaders in research community

Both have chaired major conferences in AI, Sem Web, KR, etc.; Hendler is VP, McGuinness Board member of Semantic Web Science Association

> 200 papers in area from Md and Stanford Significant Govt consulting/contracting/reporting in

Sem Web Area Natl Academy, Air Force Science Board, DTO/iARPA Both hold clearances, do classified consulting Hendler helped form US Govt Knowledge Sharing Sig

Lots going onSemantic (Web) technology companies starting & growing

Siderean, SandPiper, SiberLogic, Ontology Works, Intellidimension, Intellisophic, TopQuadrant, Data Grid, Mondeca, ontoPrise…

Web 3.0 new buzzword: Metaweb, RadarNetworks, Garlik, Joost, Talis, …Bigger players buying in

Adobe, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, Vodaphone… announcements/use in 2007

Gartner identifies Corporate Semantic Web as one of three "High impact" Web technologies Tool market forming: AllegroGraph, Altova, TopBraid, …

Government projects in and across agencies US, UK, EU, Japan, Korea, China, India…

Several "verticals" looking into Sem Web adoption Health Care and Life Sciences

Interest Group at W3C Financial services Sciences other than Life Science

Virtual observatory, Geo ontology, …Many open source tools available

Kowari, RDFLib, Jena, Sesame, Protégé, SWOOP, Pellet, Onto(xxx), Wilbur, …

Digital asset management Semantic Web portals

Ontology editors (and other tools)Semantic Web and social networking

Ontology Mapping

Explanation/Provenance

Knowledge Discovery

Web Service Composition

Constellation "plans"

Ontologies/ToolsWeb Infrastructure

ScalingRule extensions

Policy Lang

Web Science

Interdisciplinary eScience

Knowledge Provenance

Web Science

The features that make the web work

The threats of fragmentation The macro from the micro How to incorporate semantics How to exploit statistics How to build services How to instill trust, resilience

and dependability

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Berners-Lee Lovelace Lecture 07

The original version

Tetherless World/Web

The pervasive, mobile. Information rich and ubiquitous Web, requires Web Science Info beyond the desktop (tetherless)

Understanding the Web as a network at all scales Below the Web graph Powerlaws to people Social Machines

Engineer the Future of the Web Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 necessary,

but not sufficient… Policy Aware Computing

End to end semantic accountability Privacy protection Security needs Intellectual property rights (and wrongs)

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