Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, Gödel and Turing - Hardcover

Alesso, H. Peter; Smith, Craig F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471768146 ISBN 13: 9780471768142

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2006

Synopsis

What Is Thinking?

What is Turing's Test? What is Gödel's Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lee's Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web?

Thinking on the Web draws from the contributions of Tim Berners-Lee (What is solvable on the Web?), Kurt Gödel (What is decidable?), and Alan Turing (What is machine intelligence?) to evaluate how much "intelligence" can be projected onto the Web.

The authors offer both abstract and practical perspectives to delineate the opportunities and challenges of a "smarter" Web through a threaded series of vignettes and a thorough review of Semantic Web development.

About this title

About the Author

H. Peter Alesso is an Internet innovator with twenty years' research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As engineering group leader at LLNL, he led a team of computer scientists and engineers in a wide range of Internet research projects.

Craig F. Smith is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with over thirty years' experience in research and development for applications of advanced technologies. He currently serves as the Lawrence Livermore Chair Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

From the Back Cover

A vision of Web-enabled machine intelligence

Tim Berners-Lee, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing are the pivotal pioneers who opened the door to the Information Revolution, beginning with the introduction of the computer in the 1950s and continuing today with the World Wide Web evolving into a resource with intelligent features and capabilities.

Taking the main questions posed by these thinkers "What is decidable?" by Gödel, "What is machine intelligence?" by Turing, and "What is solvable on the Web?" by Berners-Lee as jumping-off points, Thinking on the Web offers an incisive guide to just how much "intelligence" can be projected onto the Web.

Presenting Web intelligence from both philosophical and applied perspectives, Thinking on the Web explores the next generation of Web architecture, the Semantic Web, and takes a realistic look at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities resulting from this new layer of machine processing. It is divided into two sections, the first addressing Web intelligence and the second Web logic and language. The book builds from commonsense, real-world examples to some of the most cutting-edge issues surrounding the next generation of Web capabilities, including:

• Knowledge representation
• Computational complexity
• Semantic Web capabilities and limitations
• Web Ontology Languages (OWL)
• Semantic search

Throughout the book, a series of vignettes highlight important issues underpinning the Information Revolution, thereby mirroring the authors' attention to both the abstract and practical questions posed by a "thinking" Web. A unique guide to the next frontier of computing, Thinking on the Web offers both tech-savvy readers and serious computer science students a stimulating and practical view towards a smarter Web.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471768146
• ISBN 13: 9780471768142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261