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Tim Berners-Lee Has a Plan to Reinvent the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is unhappy with the state of the web. Like many others, the recent Turing award-winner has little faith in the centralized model that keeps the web spinning.
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Discussion Point: What's the Big Problem With Big Data? [Video]
Ask 100 people to define big data and you'll get 100 answers, including no answers at all. In theory, big data can help organizations make decisions faster, easier and more accurately.
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Notes from #SXSWi: Lessons from the Creator of the WWW Not Named Al Gore
The crowd was wildly snapping pictures and the star of the show grabbed his camera and started snapping back. Fans who surrounded the spectacle started then taking pictures of the audience and the icon taking pictures of each other.
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Open Data Institute Revs Up Data.gov.uk to Leverage Startups, Open Governments
Could the key to better government lie in its mountains of already free and available data? Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt founded the Open Data Institute in 2011 to encourage governments to supply better access to government information with the hope that it could be used to solve
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To Sir With Love: Celebrating 21 Years of the World Wide Web
Twenty-one years ago was a different time. In 1991, the cold war ended, Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was released by Sega, and Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and the first website, "info.cern.
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Linked Data on the Web - Becoming Reality in the UK
These days the UK government seems unusually savvy when it comes to technology, open source and open standards. Now they've embraced another open movement, that of open data. And they've appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, to help.
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