"Semantic Web and UbiComp Research at the Nokia Research Center"

5/2/2003: 10:30am - 12:00pm
11th Floor Large Conference Room

Abstract: Nokia Research Center's Agent Technology Group (in Burlington, MA) has been involved in Semantic Web research and standardization since 1996. We have participated in the creation of every major Semantic Web standard, including RDF, DAML+OIL, DAML-S, CC/PP, and OWL. We have also produced an open-source toolkit for Semantic Web programming, implemented in Common Lisp. The group, originally founded as an AI research team, has also been involved in Ubiquitous Computing research for many years, with the broad idea of applying AI and multi-agent techniques to UbiComp. Specific research topics include ad hoc networking, service discovery, machine learning, multimodal user interfaces, and activity scheduling. In addition to providing an overview of our group's activities, this lecture will present our research ideas on "Semantic Gadgets", an integration of many AI techniques, Semantic Web, and the UbiComp paradigm.

About Ora Lassila: Ora Lassila is a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center and the Chief Scientist of Nokia Venture Partners. He has been an elected member of the Advisory Board of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1998, and represented Nokia in the W3C Advisory Committee in 1998-2002. In 1996-1997 he was a Visiting Scientist at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, working with W3C and launching the Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard; he served as a co-editor of the RDF Model and Syntax specification. His current research work focuses on the Semantic Web and its applications to ubiquitous computing. He collaborates with several US universities, including MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and is an active participant in the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program. His previous positions include Project Manager at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and Research Scientist at the CS Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology. He has also worked as a software engineer in several companies (including his own start-up). He is the author of more than 70 conference papers and journal articles.

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