- From: James Smith <jgsmith@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:40:47 -0400
- To: Jean-Paul <jp.calbimonte@upm.es>
- Cc: public-rsp@w3.org, "Le Phuoc, Danh" <danh.lephuoc@deri.org>, Thomas Scharrenbach <scharrenbach@ifi.uzh.ch>, Emanuele Della Valle <emanuele.dellavalle@polimi.it>, Daniele Dell'Aglio <daniele.dellaglio@polimi.it>, Manfred Hauswirth <manfred.hauswirth@deri.org>, bernstein@ifi.uzh.ch <bernstein@ifi.uzh.ch>
On Aug 23, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Jean-Paul <jp.calbimonte@upm.es> wrote: > Dear all, > > After receiving your availability data the most suitable datetime for the phone call is: Wed 11 Sept, 15:00 CEST. I should be able to make the call, though I might be a few minutes late depending on traffic getting to the office. > PS: By the way we can already start presenting ourselves: I'm James (Jim) Smith. I'm the software architect for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH - http://mith.umd.edu/) at the University of Maryland, College Park. I'm participating as an individual and not as a representative of my employer. RDF and RDF streaming are part of my research interests independent of the projects at MITH. I am participating in a similar arrangement with the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. At a large scale, the semantic web is an alternative to the classic von Neumann architecture. Instead of having a strict separation of processing from memory with a limited pipe between them (though I know that modern computers aren't quite pure in this regard), the web allows processing and memory to be "smeared" out over a large number of loosely coupled components. RDF is a way to structure that memory, URIs are a way to address that memory, and stream-based processing is a way to compute on that memory. I'm interested in creating or finding tools that make the use of this semantic web machine as easy and transparent as doing computation on a local machine or cluster. -- Jim
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