Who is Cyc?

Some search engines vie for fairy dust, others just ante up the goods.

Semantic search engines vie to harness the same fairy dust as did Google–once upon a time. But charismatic, enigmatic, and dismissive geeky upstarts that make billions upon billions of dollars of course earn as many foes as they do dough. My point is [...]

The Next NOT Big

“Chicago Scraps…,” “San Francisco Abandons…,” their blueprints for urban WiFi, thanks to Earthlink’s issues. So, the next big in wifi, has become the not so big…

Petaflop Supercomputer: What Big Questions Will it Solve?

Thanks to a big OOPS, the world is now privy to pretty specific info on the IBM-National Science Foundation deal–the one where the NSF grants IBM the right to build the world’s biggest supercomputer. Well, IBM currently holds the record with its Blue Gene/L. The next-gen super-duper will apparently take over with the larger (read [...]