The SDForum Semantic Web SIG presents:

Are Scalable Graph Data Applications Possible?
A Look at C-Store, Java, and Data Grid Approaches to Semantic Web Applications

http://sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=656&parentID=483&nodeID=1

Hi,
The SDForum semantic web SIG will have its regular event on Nov. 7th. Very exciting topic and lineup:

Title: Intelligence at the Interface
a technology showcase organized by Tom Gruber

The interfaces we use to interact with the world's information are getting smarter. Web portals gave us someone else's idea of the content we should see. Then came search engines, which let us tell the system what we want, one query at a time. We are about to see the next wave -- intelligence at the interface -- in which the system knows about us, our information, and our physical environment. With knowledge about our context, an intelligent system can make recommendations and act on our behalf. This SD Forum event will showcase four exciting new examples of intelligence at the interface developed by Bay Area companies.

* SRI will demonstrate an intelligent assistant system called CALO that came out of an ambitious program of AI research. It learns about your documents, email, people, schedules, and meetings, and learns even more as you use it. It helps you organize your information world, prepare for meetings, create presentations, and find information in the context of your work.
* Yahoo! Research Berkeley will demo ZoneTag and Zurfer, mobile-phone photo-driven applications that use your social, spatial, and temporal context to support and enhance key user tasks on the mobile device. They intelligently help you capture, upload, tag, view and search for photos on your mobile device, minimizing requirements on explicit input and user attention.
* PARC will demonstrate a mobile leisure guide, codenamed Magitti, which recommends places to visit in an urban environment. It pays attention to your time, location, past behavior and preferences and it also infers your current and future activity type to better target its recommendations.
* Radar Networks will demonstrate Twine, a newly announced online service based on their Semantic Web platform that helps people organize, find, and share their information more intelligently. It knows about the semantic content of information of all sorts, from web content to email.

See SIG's web page for details.

Location:
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Rd., Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA

Agenda
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Registration / Networking / Refreshments / Pizza
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Presentation

AJ Chen
co-chair, sdforum semantic web sig

See SIG's web page for details.
http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=734&parentID=659&nodeID=1

This is the first meeting of the PAWS (Palo Alto Semantic Web- we're following OWL's lead here) group. The plan is to get to know each other a bit and decide what the most effective format/content of the meetings will be based on who shows up. I would anticipate more structured, presentation-style meetings in the future, but that's for all of us to decide. I've scheduled this kickoff meeting more than a month early to gather as many 'founding members' as possible. If there is considerable response, we may consider moving the first meeting forward a few weeks to get the ball rolling sooner. Looking forward to meeting all the SW fans out there!
Expected tech talk for this meetup: minimal to moderate