While there are privacy concerns, which one hopes a strong government
will keep in check, why was your first criticism 'multi billion dollar'?
I welcome the interest in the combination of graph knowledge with text
analysis by big, successful companies - it vindicates the effort my
friends and colleagues have put into this area over the last decade.
Barry
On 11/04/13 09:24, Neil McNaughton wrote:
Hello all,
There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance
by Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that
spies on individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its
own "do no evil" ends. What is the world coming to I ask?
Neil McNaughton
Editor, Oil IT Journal (www.oilit.com <http://www.oilit.com/>)
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*From:*Dimitris Kontokostas
[mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* 11 April 2013 09:04
*To:* [email protected]; Linked Data community
*Subject:* DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear fellow DBpedians,
I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have
again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!!
If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working
with DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to
apply!
More details can also be found on the blog post here:
http://blog.dbpedia.org/2013/04/10/dbpediaspotlight-accepted-google-summer-of-code-2013/
On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,
Dimitris Kontokostas
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Dimitris Kontokostas
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
