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<h1>Tim Berners-Lee: Research</h1>
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<p></p>
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<p>MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)</p>
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<p>My current research interest is the <a href="../../2001/sw">Semantic
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Web</a>: using the WWW infrastructure to create a global, decentralized,
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weblike mesh of machine-processable knowledge. Please see my <a
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href="Overview.html">general page</a> for information about other
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subjects.</p>
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<p>The Semantic Web can be described as doing for Knowledge Representation
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what the Hypertext WWW did for hypertext. It part of the completion of the
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original dream of the Web. URIs and HTTP create a universal addressable space
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of information, allowing things to be given globally unique and
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dereferencable names. By relaxing traditional constraints of global
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consistency, we allow the system to grow to a global scale, maintaining local
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consistency.</p>
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<p>The impact on information technology will be to break down the information
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barriers between organizations, and between applications.</p>
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<p>Our research is specifically into pursuing practical projects which test
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these concepts and distinguish areas for future research and possible
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development of new standards. We look at systems which combine inference and
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web access; which are aware of the provenance of information, which can trust
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information from difference sources in different ways, and can reinforce is
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logical concept of trust with cryptography to make secure systems.</p>
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<h3>MIT Students</h3>
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<p>We are interested in working with students at any level, UROP, MEng or
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PhD. Send email and come talk to us.</p>
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<p>Some of the UROP projects in the areas of using semantic web tools for
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early adopter possible killer app areas such as personal information
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integration, enterprise integration, and possibly public and scientific data,
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not to mention the policy-aware integration across all these domains. We have
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general tools such as cwm and application-specific semantic web adaptors -
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the fun is connecting things together. We are looking at proof exchange
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langauges which include cryptography, indexing the web of rules, remote query
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and query delegation. We are happy to co-supervise with other groups in areas
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such as Theory of Computation, Artificiail Intelligence, Distributed systems,
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and so on.</p>
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<h3>Student projects</h3>
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<p>Currently we are looking for people to do do research based aroun the cwm
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(python-based semantic web) and ontaria (prolog-based semantic web)
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platforms. Other student projects (of millions - come talk to us) are for
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example realted to <a href="../../DesignIssues/PaperTrail">Paper Trail</a>
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and <a href="../../DesignIssues/Diff">Diff, Patch, Update and Sync</a>. <a
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href="../../DesignIssues/PaperTrail"></a></p>
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<h3>Non-MIT Students</h3>
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<p>Sorry, we do not have a program of internship for students at other
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institutes. We collaborate with other labs, and W3C has a fellowship program
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for employees of member companies.</p>
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<h3>Colleagues</h3>
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<p>Also working on semantic web stuff in this group:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Dan Connolly</li>
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<li>Sandro Hawke</li>
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<li>Eric Miller</li>
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<li>Eric Prud'hommeaux</li>
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<li>Ralph Swick</li>
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<li>Danny Weitzner</li>
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<p>MIT CSAIL is one of the three host sites of the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Our intention is always to allow the best communication and mutual guidance
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between research and standards development, and between academia and
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industry. Several of my colleagues and I generally divide our time as between these
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roles.</p>
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<h3>Current Project</h3>
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<p>Work here on <em>Semantic Web Advanced Development</em> is currenty funded
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by DARPA under the <a href="http://www.daml.org/">DAML</a> program.</p>
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<h2><a name="Address">Address</a></h2>
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<li><a href="../../Consortium/Directions.html">Directions</a></li>
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<dt>Email</dt>
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<dd>timbl @ w3.org</dd>
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<dt>Address</dt>
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<dd>32 Vassar Street<br>
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MIT room 32-G-524<br>
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Cambridge MA 02139<br>
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USA</dd>
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<dt>Phone</dt>
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<dd>+1 (617) 253 5702</dd>
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<dt>Fax:</dt>
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<dd>+1 (617) 258 5999</dd>
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<p></p>
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<p></p>
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<h2>Pointers</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../../DesignIssues">Design Issues: Technical and philosophical
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notes on web architecture</a> A series of notes about how the web
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actually works and how to design new technology.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><a href="../../2000/10/swap/">SWAP: Semantic Web Application Platform</a>
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is the codebase which we have been using as a pltform for our research.
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Includes development of the <a href="../../DesignIssues/Notation3">N3</a>
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language and the <a href="../../2000/10/swap/doc/cwm">cwm</a> general purpose
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semantic web tool.</p>
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<p>Tutorial on the semantic web</p>
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<p></p>
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