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Silencing Voice Recognition Technology,LaurianneMcLaughlinNASA scientists are having early success developing prototype technology that recognizes and processes silent speech for use with a PC. Instead of grabbing words from spoken sounds, the ...
ITS at the Hudson Valley Transportation Management Center
At the Hudson Valley TMC in New York State, advanced ITS technology will help decrease traffic congestion and travel time for commuters.
The Mars Exploration Rovers Descent Image Motion Estimation System
JPL's Descent Image Motion Estimation System is the first machine-vision system for estimating lander velocity during planetary descent. Composed of sensors and software, DIMES features a descent imager, a radar altimeter, an inertial-measurement unit, ...
Combining Information Extraction with Genetic Algorithms for Text Mining
Text mining discovers unseen patterns in textual databases. But these discoveries are useless unless they contribute valuable knowledge for users who make strategic decisions. Confronting this issue can lead to a complicated activity called knowledge ...
Exploring Large Document Repositories with RDF Technology: The DOPE Project
- H. Stuckenschmidt,
- F. van Harmelen,
- A. de Waard,
- T. Scerri,
- R. Bhogal,
- J. van Buel,
- I. Crowlesmith,
- C. Fluit,
- A. Kampman,
- J. Broekstra,
- E. van Mulligen
This article presents the DOPE system for exploring large online resources in the area of drug research. It gives an overview of the system and explains the use of Semantic Web technology for providing thesaurus-based access to existing resources using ...
CS AKTive Space, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Semantic Web
The Advanced Knowledge Technologies project is investigating how to operationalize the knowledge management mantra "getting the right content to the right place at the right time and in the right form." A significant result is CS AKTive Space, a ...
AnnoTerra: Building an Integrated Earth Science Resource Using Semantic Web Technologies
AnnoTerra is a Semantic Web application that presents enhanced earth science news feeds. It makes focused semantic searches for interrelated resources registered in NASA knowledge catalogs using concepts and relationships from the earth science field. ...
An Infrastructure for Scalable, Reliable Semantic Portals
Practical implementations of Semantic Web technologies must consider aspects such as scalability and reliability to be attractive for industrial practitioners. A new portal infrastructure benefits from both the access facilities provided by Semantic Web ...
SECO: Mediation Services for Semantic Web Data
The Semantic Web has motivated grassroots efforts to develop and publish ontology specifications in RDF. So far, most RDF data online has not been fully utilized. In this article, the author describes SECO (semantic collaboration), an infrastructure ...
Retrieving and Semantically Integrating Heterogeneous Data from the Web
The Semantic Web promises a machine-understandable description of the information on the Web. Before achieving this vision, however, researchers must address several challenges. Technologies are needed for integrating the data described in different ...
Ontology-Based Search for Interactive Digital Maps
This article describes the application GeoShare, which participated in the Semantic Web Challenge 2003. As their motivating example, the authors describe a tourist who is planning a bike trip and looking for nice locations for fishing and bathing. ...
AI Fights Money Laundering
With almost half of the world's top 20 banks using AI systems, AI has emerged as the leading method in the fight against money laundering. One company in particular, Searchspace, monitors customer activity to identify unusual behavior and detect ...
Keeping It Too Simple: How the Reductive Tendency Affects Cognitive Engineering
When faced with complex tasks and information, people sometimes deal with the complexity through oversimplification, which can lead to misconception and faulty knowledge application. This has serious implications for cognitive engineers designing ...
The W3C's Semantic Web Activity: An Update
Eric discusses the W3C's Semantic Web Activity's progress, including approving approval of two key Semantic Web technologies: the revised RDF and OWL. The group also chartered two new working groups: the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment ...