Decentralized Information Group
Decentralized Information GroupWe are interested in working with students at any level, UROP, MEng or PhD. Send email and come talk to us.
Some of the UROP projects in the areas of using semantic web tools for early adopter possible killer app areas such as personal information integration, enterprise integration, and possibly public and scientific data, not to mention the policy-aware integration across all these domains. We have general tools such as cwm and application-specific semantic web adaptors - the fun is connecting things together. We are looking at proof exchange langauges which include cryptography, indexing the web of rules, remote query and query delegation.
The big Undergraduate project for Summer 2006 is the Tabulator. This is a collaborative project with several students writing different views or features for this AJAX browser.
Another is the dbview project, python program to export existing SQL databases as RDF data.
Currently we are looking for people to work on cwm and ontaria, an ontology directory and semantic web browser. Other student projects (or millions - come talk to us) are realted to Paper Trail and Diff, Patch, Update and Sync.
MIT CSAIL is one of the three host sites of the World Wide Web Consortium. Our intention is always to allow the best communication and mutual guidance between research and standards development, and between academia and industry. My colleagues and I generally divide our time as between these roles.
See also our breadcrumbs blog wherein we have a student project item.
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