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The Semantic Web

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BMO Internet Security
Final Project Paper

University of Toronto
SCS 2115
Professor: Dr. Ken K. Wong
By: Kevin Fernando
13/06/2010

The semantic web is a vision created and promoted by Tim-Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium. In his article the Semantic Web in Scientific American (2001) Berners-Lee explains that The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation What Berners-Lee means by this is that in its current state, internet technology is not designed in a way in which computers and machines can interact with each other most efficiently. The primary reason for this disconnect is
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