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Taking down A.I. town?

The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups...

Those people at Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) are hiring which might be of interest to job-seeking nodalpointers. The positions are based in sunny Berkeley, California. Even if you're not a job seeker, its interesting to see what this group are up to and what skills they are after. More information at www.berkeleybop.org

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