Thinking on the Web Berners-Lee, G&oumldel, and Turing [Paperback]

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.

The Purpose of this Book.

Who Should Read this Book.

The Organization of this Book.

PART I: WHAT IS WEB INTELLIGENCE.

Chapter 1: The Information Age and the Web.

Overview.

Thinking and Intelligent Web Applications.

The Information Age.

The World Wide Web.

The Limitations of Today’s Web.

The Next Generation Web.

Why Intelligent Ubiquitous Devices Improve Productivity.

Conclusion.

Exercises.

Interlude #1 Thinking about Thinking.

Chapter 2: Gödel - What is Decidable?

Overview.

Philosophical and Mathematical Logic.

Kurt Gödel.

Knowledge Representation.

Computational Logic .

Artificial Intelligence.

Web Architecture and Business Logic.

The Semantic Web.

Conclusion.

Exercisesl)