In my latest podcast I talk with Tom Gruber, CTO and co-founder of Siri.

We discuss Siri, and explore the whole notion of the ‘Virtual Personal Assistant,’ of which Siri is one.

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 10 June, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. We discuss Nigel’s background in Artificial Intelligence, and the appeal of the Semantic Web, before turning to explore the introduction of Linked Data to an enterprise audience and the multidisciplinary focus required to carry the Web forward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
• Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
• Cambridge Consultants
• DBpedia
• DSpace
• Egg
• Epistemics
• ePrints
• FirstDirect
• Garlik
• Wendy Hall, and our recent podcast
• Mike Harris
• Tom Ilube
• Linked Data
• Mosaic
• QDOS
• Scientific American, and its 2001 Semantic Web article
• SPARQL
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham
• University of Southampton
• VoCamp
• Web Science Research Initiative

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 10 March, 2009.

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