Semantic Web and MIT

The ENSEMBLE project has recently finished its summer studentships programme (known as UROPS - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, a concept initially developed at MIT). The key to UROPs is that students participate as researchers in a real research project, in the process gaining valuable skills and experience, and actively participating as members of an academic research community.

The attached MP3 provides continuing coverage of a series of interviews conducted at the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Listen as Marilu Goodyear hosts a 30 minute interview with Phil Long, Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among other things, they take on the issue of patents, discuss Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, and tackle the prospects for continued research on learning space design.

In this podcast, I speak with MIT's McKenzie Smith about the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, The MIT Libraries' investigation of Semantic Web technology via their SIMILE project, grid computing vis-a-vis the SDSC Storage Resource Broker, and digital preservation.  

To learn more about the activities of the MIT Libraries,
you can view their annual report at the url below:
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/annual/ar05/technology.html


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org