Is Paris Hilton a celebrity socialite or a hotel in France? The answer depends upon the context, perhaps from a Web page, magazine article, or other source. A normal search engine can’t tell the ...

Researchers in Spain have developed a tool that simplifies the use of the semantic web. The new tool, called Fortunata, can be used by developers, graphic designers and end users without an in-depth ...

If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by ...

Photo: Peter Fox, the principal investigator for the project and Senior Constellation Professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer. Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined win at chess, predict the weather and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving ...