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JSON Linked Data is getting closer with the publication of two Last Call Working Drafts by the W3C's RDF Working Group and its JSON-LD Community Group. JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is a lightweight Linked Data format designed to provide context for data and to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale. Based on the JSON format, it is easy for humans to read and write at the

As another sign that JavaScript is taking over the world, the Gnome team seem to have decided that it is to be the default language for developing user facing applications. It sort of makes sense. Gnome, the graphical desktop environment for Linux, may not be as influential as it once was, and many hate the way Gnome 3 moved away from the desktop metaphor, but it is still important. So the news th

Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up teaching face-to-face at Stanford and instead intends to create free courses for Udacity, a new online education venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search Engine and Programming a Robotic Car. Attendees at this year's DLD (Digital Life,Design) Conference, being held in Munich, Germany and livestreamed around the world, were probably expe

The world of software is made slightly crazy because of the huge flexibility within any computer language. Once you have absorbed the idea of a compiler written in the language it compiles what else is there left to gawp at? But... a Java Virtual Machine JVM written in JavaScript seems like another level of insanity. In fact it is a quite reasonable idea which is only made mad by the usual positio

While Google is thinking of replacing JavaScript with Dart and Microsoft is working on accepting it as a first-class language, Intel is hard at work making JavaScript work harder. River Trail is an open source parallel JavaScript engine. Why Intel? Well they have a lot of multicore processors and River Trail makes use of them. It extends JavaScript with a few simple data-parallel instructions but

A camera that uses AI to work out what gender the user is could have all sorts of applications in marketing, market research or just tailoring an interaction to take account of gender. A Spanish team from the Computational Intelligence Group based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have has developed a system that analyses a video signal in real time and calculates the gender of the faces pi

What happens when you attempt to demonstrate sorting algorithms using folk dancing? The result is slightly surreal and you'll probably always hum a tune in future when implementing a Bubble, Shell, Insert or Select sort. See updated version, complete with videos You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algorithms that aim to show in novel ways how the algorithm works or perhaps doesn't w

The Prediction API gives developers access to Google's own machine learning algorithms to analyze data and predict outcomes. The service is free for up to six months depending on usage. The Google Prediction AI provides access to Google's AI tools that it uses internally for  a range of classification and prediction tasks. It basically is a REST style API to a general purpose pattern recognition e

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